Imagine every book, film, play or song is about to be destroyed; every news story, television and radio programme about to be erased. What would you save?

Simon Pope invites you to join Charade and volunteer to ‘become’ your chosen item and to commit it to memory. Subscribe to the newsfeed and be first to hear about gatherings at locations in Central London and our Live Event in Trafalgar Square.

Inspired by the final scene of Truffaut’s film Fahrenheit 451, Charade imagines a future where our most treasured items from the media are under threat of destruction. When forced to rely on our own memories and bodies for storage and retrieval, how would our relationship to
these artifacts change? What new forms of ownership and distribution might emerge?

Originally commissioned as part of the BBC & Arts Council England’s ‘Private View’ in 2006, Charade is a supported in London by the ICA.

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