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Using two of my performance pieces as case studies, this paper analyses the use of oral testimony and listening in contemporary performance to activate a narrative reaction from the public. Describing how unique spaces of participatory art for activating individual and collective remembering among witnesses and listeners were created, it highlights the potentialities of artistic practice in dealing with memorialisation issues and expanding the authorship of a narrative and the group of people it represents. Furthermore, it contributes to the understanding of memory-making as a dialogic process. In the first case study,  Un lavoro per Camporovere  (2014), the public listening to a sound installation – comprised of interviews – brings together the two halves of a village divided by Nazi arson in 1944 and helps the citizens to create a new collective narration of the event. In the second intervention, the collective performance  Mellah  (2017), the creation of a safe, symbolic and dedicated space favours the telling of the unshared memories of Moroccan Jews who migrated to Paris. This paper illustrates in both examples, the role that public reaction and stories play in making heritage as always in a state of becoming.

The potential of artistic practice in facilitating the collective narration of historical events