Memory Table
For Fest en Fest, Memory Table will be performed by Shivaangee Agrawal and Vicky Malin. Memory Table is an informal performance and a conversation sat around a table. Two performers use a collection of everyday objects to share a series of tactile, sensory memories. Let yourself be transported to childhood recollections and recent experiences via fluffy jumpers, hot water bottles, sand, stones and more. Sometimes the objects are used as they are, and sometimes they’re transformed into objects of our imagination.
Memory Table was created to explore how language and the craft of storytelling can evoke memory and sensation. It celebrates the non-linear, embodied, associative nature of memory and returns audiences to their porous, sensorial bodies and the beautiful materiality of the world. It is a simple but surprisingly profound experience.
Our work has been presented nationally and internationally, often in unusual or outdoor spaces. Partners include Sadler’s Wells, Dance Umbrella, Brighton Festival, Wellcome Collection, Siobhan Davies Studios, Hauser and Wirth Somerset, Turner Contemporary and festivals in Scotland, Ireland, France and Portugal.
Access
Integrated audio description with live audio and tactile introductions as required.
This experience lasts for 30mins and is for 8 audience members.
This performance is linked to the content explored in the workshop – Objects as Portals.
Charlotte Spencer Projects
Our work sits at the intersection between choreography, embodiment, public space, social justice, well-being and accessibility. Driven by urgent social and ecological questions, we create intimate live encounters that invite audiences to slow down, notice small details and step into the present moment shared with others. This innovative, deeply curious work returns audiences to their porous, sensorial bodies, to each other, to the beautiful materiality of the world. Our political, responsive work makes an active invitation to audiences and collaborators to come together and participate in reimagining how we can live in times of complexity, precarity and polarisation.
We often find ourselves working in unusual ways and in unconventional places. Many of our artworks invite audiences to participate directly. We make choreographic performances and installations, host conversations, take walks, lead workshops, write stuff, mentor other artists. We care a lot about what we do and how we do it.
Photo: Zoe Manders