Practice-led work researching the potential of ritual magick for post-capitalism, asking if counterculture is truly dead within a surveilled neoliberal environment.
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Assembly 2024 features a series of new commissions, collaborations, and live premieres.
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Live streamed talk exploring the organic phenomena of mycelium both in the natural world and in design.
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Spanning from the 1970s to the present day, The Missing Thread charted the shifting landscape of Black British culture and the unique contribution it has made to Britain’s rich design history.
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India’s installation will take visitors to the labour-intensive setting of the indigo farmers who were forced to make natural indigo dye.
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This September, London Design Biennale will welcome the world to our capital city. A diverse group of over 35 countries and cities have been confirmed as participants.
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culture through a series of immersive works by some of today’s most exciting global artists. Event ... exhibition explores how we can reset the natural rhythms of life – work, leisure, rest and sleep. Through the ... work of international artists, designers, scientists and thinkers, the exhibition is perfect for event ...
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Film series from the culmination of research projects with artists and academics from Somerset House Studios and King's College London.
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A reading list to accompany our exhibition North: Fashioning Identity.
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AGM returns with a programme spanning movement, music, installation and poetry in a constellation of stagings across two floors of Somerset House’s New Wing.
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Join artist Matthew Plummer Fernandez for a workshop exploring the future of our planet through placard making in advance of our upcoming exhibition Good Grief, Charlie Brown!
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An Oscar-nominated powerhouse music biopic following the irresistible rise and dramatic implosion of the notorious Los Angeles rap collective group N.W.A.
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Somerset House are delighted to welcome The Future Plate, the UK's largest collective of African and Caribbean chefs, to our vibrant Residents community this July.
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The founder of children's educational app Koobool, speaks to us.
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The Chinese installation considers the emotional significance of an iconic structure and how it became part of the nation’s collective memory.
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Qatar's entry will present a hybrid between the old and the new, through the use of materials and cultural rituals.
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Free artist led talks in the galleries, providing an opportunity to hear more about the artists’ exhibited works and wider practice.
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The Adam Mickiewicz Institute will present an installation investigating the phenomenology of human emotion.
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A night of horror and sci-fi from Jordan Peele and John Carpenter, bringing together two films that draw back the curtain on the hidden power structures shaping our world.
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Celebrate the 200th screening in Film4 Summer Screen history with director Ryan Coogler’s superhero spectacular.
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