Across the week of midsummer – which sees the longest day and shortest night of the year – we host a week of online events responding to ‘always on’ culture.
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Presenting a special digital edition of ASSEMBLY - five nightly premieres of new sound works, through a newly developed immersive listening platform.
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Visual artist and writer whose work explores the fictions, infrastructure and conceptual systems compose the concrete world, such as ecology, finance and information.
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Elaine Mitchener discusses radical approaches to creating and interpreting musical scores
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A talk exploring Black radicalism, anti-capitalist place-making and abolitionist geography.
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Guest-curated day-to-night parties of live art, performance and games as part of This Bright Land.
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Cross-disciplinary artist and filmmaker, working with a diverse range of media spanning moving-image, sound-design, text, performance and installation
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An immersive virtual reality exhibition from Icelandic icon Björk.
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Exploring unsanctioned public art – or graffiti – as an intrinsically utopian practice.
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Artist Deborah Pearson and academic Anna Snaith present The Filibuster, a 12 hour durational piece inviting women to take up space and speak.
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Presenting two summer weekends of distinctive contemporary circus, hip hop dance and music.
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It’s an exciting moment for London this September, as we welcome the world.
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Following his workshop, Lien-Cheng Wang will deliver an artist talk on his practice around generative art, as well as a performance, titled Horizon.
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Our Creative Careers & Skills programme presents this year’s MDX Fashion Show, showcasing the up and coming talent graduating from Middlesex University.
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A special launch event to celebrate the opening of Unquiet Moments: Capturing the Everyday, the first online exhibition by the MA Curating students at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
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Calling planet earth! Revisit Mothership, a podcast exploring themes around Black futures and afro-futurism.
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Saxophonist Ben Vince speaks with musician, DJ and close collaborator Coby Sey about his new sound work, part of this year’s ASSEMBLY programme.
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unpack their latest commission for Channel. Find out more Promotion banner: Former Somerset House ...
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Tinariwen is a Grammy award winning collective of Tuareg musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali.
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Sian Fan’s interdisciplinary practise combines technology and performance to explore mixed identities, existing between worlds and what it means to be human in the digital age.
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