Confabulations for Critical Localities is a five-month programme (November 2025 - March 2026) comprising residencies, exhibitions, discussions, an educational strand, and publishing. The programme brings into focus the ways we construct stories in order to connect, inhabit, and produce localities, whilst attending to the lingering aftertastes these narratives leave behind, whether bitter, sweet or salty. It explores grey areas, loose ends, and representational tactics, while activating methodologies of unarchiving, repurposing, and collaboration.

 

Confabulations refers to the act of creating shared meaning when memory inevitably falters: an imaginative stitching-together of fragments, assumptions, and partial truths. Rather than deception, it is a narrative impulse: a way for the mind to fill gaps, to connect temporal and spatial loose ends, and to generate coherence where certainty is absent. Confabulation acknowledges that stories are not fixed records of what has been, but shifting constructions shaped by desire, intuition, and place. It is in these unstable zones – between fact and feeling, recollection and invention – that new forms of locality can be sensed, tested, and shared.