Making Memory Making Sense, or WTF Just Happened?! with R. Marcelo Sánchez-Camus, Applied Live Art Studio (ALAS)

This will be a social drawing project where we consider our experience of 2020 and 2021 including the challenges of the pandemic, lockdown, civil rights, and climate crisis and how this has affected our lives.

The workshop will be part of a larger national tour that collects people’s drawings their experiences in the last year to create a visual archive of the times. No experience necessary to participate. The drawing is about telling visual stories through symbols and marks that are expressive and narrative. The artist will guide you through a combination of talking and sharing and drawing.

Participants in past ALAS social drawing workshops have said:

I really enjoyed myself, I didn’t realise so much of what I was thinking and didn’t know how to put it into words or drawings.

The session has helped me regain my self-confidence after my anxiety during this past lockdown.

I was able to see both the positive and challenging parts of life in a really fun way, which made it fun to talk about hard topics.

Applied Live Art Studio (ALAS)

For over 10 years, ALAS has worked to support people’s creativity in a variety of settings. We create site-responsive works that activate dialogue, interaction, visual impact and community cohesion. We facilitate workshops for community groups and individuals. Recently, these have included Body Offerings at the Wellcome Collection, Scrolled Life Stories at the Horniman Museum and Inner Rooms Inner Minds, commissioned by the Museum of London.

R.M. Sánchez-Camus

Marcelo is a UK-based creative practitioner creating public works of art that uncover social narratives while giving a space for reflection. His practice incorporates community co-authorship into installation, performance and text with a focus on collaboration, participation, psychogeography, and community wellbeing. Marcelo is the co-founder and organiser of Social Art Network, a UK wide association of creative professionals dedicated to socially-engaged work. He is a creative consultant on Axisweb’s Social Artery and Social Art Library (SOAL) two new online platforms dedicated to building legacy around social practice and is Lead Artist for the AHCR Fellowship Social Art for Equality Diversity & Inclusion.

Social media: @appliedliveart