Abbas Zahedi’s interdisciplinary practice blends contemporary philosophy, poetics, and social dynamics with sound, sculpture, and other performative media.
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Contributors to Margaret Busby’s landmark anthology, New Daughters of Africa, explore themes of migration, identity, protest, and new and imaginary landscapes.
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Chalet Suisse is a dining experience from pop-up legend Jimmy Garcia, in partnership with Switzerland Tourism.
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With curator Ekow Eshun, spotlighting the works of artists with personal connections to countries in the Caribbean, South America and Africa.
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tickets cost £9.50 (special fair offer, all talks now £5.00!) These can be booked via the Somerset House ... – Breaking industry bias by providing content from the Female Perspective Highlighting the significance of ...
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An outstanding group of portraits by one of the leading painters in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s
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A collaboration with Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk which saw a unique new version of his collection The Museum of Innocence, installed at Somerset House.
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This Bright Land is a major new cultural festival taking place across the month of August at Somerset House.
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Somerset House Director Jonathan Reekie CBE selects his cultural highlights of 2018.
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Partnering with the Crafts Council’s only gallery-presented art fair Collect, alongside Makerversity.
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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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For the second ASSEMBLY season, resident artist Christian Marclay will curate a series of intimate musical performances.
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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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A textile installation, elaborated with hand-made materials to represent the breath-taking landscape of Lake Atitlán and bring us closer to to Santa Catarina Palopó.
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As we embark on a new decade, explore what's in store for the year ahead at Somerset House as we announce a bumper 2020 programme.
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Join Senior Producer and Radio Director Jessie Lawson as she discusses her career with interactive skill sharing and play around inclusive and creative storytelling.
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Artist and astrologer Madeleine Botet de Lacaze hosts a performative workshop that explains the importance of astrology for leading a creative life.
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Common Study is a space for art, education, and politics.
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Studios residents Project O present a video artwork considering Somerset House’s historical connection to the British Royal Navy.
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IAM explore the post-technological futures of everything by digging into their 2018 research theme: “The Subversion of Paradoxes”.
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