Make Yourself Comfortable

Make Yourself Comfortable is a live exhibition of a negotiation between two strangers. We watch as they work out how to build something together: a piece of flat pack furniture.

It’s not for either of them, it’s for somebody else in the community who has asked for it.

They have a conversation whilst they’re building it, responding to provocations written into the step-by-step instructions.

The whole thing happens in a public. Some people will watch, others will walk by; some people will offer to lend a hand. Once the furniture is built it’s packed up and taken to its new home, its primary aim to make somebody else a little bit more comfortable in the world.

Early next year there will be a call out both online and on the streets of Stockton on Tees. The final event will take place in the town centre at the end of April 2025.