Event: Collectarium are exhibiting at Somerset house as part of a group show Now Play | Exhibition runs until 14 April 2024 – Somerset House

Now Play This celebrates its first decade of exploring games and playfulness by highlighting the creative power and ubiquity of play. This year’s theme “Liminality: Playing between worlds” is an invitation to think of play as a place both for introspection and connection. It is a call to reconsider our understanding of play and games and their relationship to our everyday lives and to other artforms.

For the Now Play This festival Collectarium (includes Allyson Waller UoB and Sophie Beard University of Greenwich) created participatory activities using their Lockdown Space collection. Indoor Hopscotch, Stair Slide and Pineapple Dance. See the full collection here:
https://collectarium.co.uk/collections/lockdown-space

The Lockdown Space collection invited people to submit observations on how their home environment had changed during lockdown.

Domestic spaces became extraordinary through the way in which people had to rapidly re-imagine their homes. The Lockdown Space collection documents these unusual temporary and ‘in-between’ liminal spaces. The domestic home became the place where we work, socialise, exercise, learn, create, entertain, play, celebrate and escape.

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Image credit: Ben Peter Catchpole.

Posted by Karen Gainsford.