Open Space launches its second year of programming with an evening of performances at London’s Swiss Church. Our 2020 theme Manufacturing Memory examines and questions the dichotomy between memory, nostalgia and technology through an interdisciplinary arts programme. This year, Open Space invites emerging art practitioners to respond to these questions - through the digital on Writing Space, the medium of food through Edible Goods, a series of discursive events through FORUM, or the Curatorial Residency.

Manufacturing Memory presents excursions into different spaces and responses through exhibitions, lectures, performances, panel discussions and screenings. The Launch event presents performances by Joshua Leon, one of the upcoming contributors of Writing Space who performs a reading of his text E. Exhaustion - and Laura Wilson, co-curator of this year’s Edible Goods project, who brings an iteration of her work Dough, Baby, performed by Iris Chan and Adam Moore. Forum’s guest curator Natalija Paunić will create a publication as a teaser for her upcoming Bread and games project in February. Open Space will also announce its open call for the 2020 Curatorial Residency and unveil its new online shop.