Ndayé Kouagou’s Heaven’s truth: Language, AI and the instability of meaning
28 May 2026 • Irene Machetti
Ndayé Kouagou’s Heaven’s truth explores language, AI and uncertainty through a work that asks viewers to slow down and pay attention.
Tag: performance
This is Patti Smith in Vienna.
27 May 2026 • Camille Moreno
Patti Smith’s Arena Vienna performance moved through dreams, stories and political urgency, revealing an artist still creating with the same conviction decades on.
Review: Living, Rehearsing … Chapter 2: Crossings
13 February 2026 • Toby Üpson
I enjoy it when an arts thinglyness demonstrates what it says it’s doing. Such ‘formalisum’ is rare in artworks; rarer… Read More
Take me Somewhere 2025: “challenging our perception of what performance is, what it can be, and who it is for.”
27 October 2025 • Beth Primrose
A writhing, frenzied ball of taut limbs, streamers and visceral emotion pulsates in anguish on a darkened stage.
Tom Pope presents The Soho Swimming Club Penney Cup Gala.
11 August 2025 • Mark Westall
The work is an installation and performance in the rooftop pool of Soho House 180 Strand
Cainy Yiru Yan’s Floating Fields: Technological Translation, Elegy, and Postmodern Nomadic Religion
24 June 2025 • Mark Westall
In Twenty Theses on Translation (2006), translation theorist Emily Apter sought to delineate the contours of translation as a process… Read More
Collaboration of artists, musicians and performers at the heart of the new avant-garde
8 May 2025 • Meike Brunkhorst
The Cenote Ring is an immersive live performance devised by multimedia artist Paola Estrella.
Simeon Barclay performance addressing masculinity & class to open at ICA in January commissioned by the Roberts Institute of Art.
12 December 2024 • Mark Westall
‘RIA Presents: Simeon Barclay, The Ruin’ (2025) will combine spoken word with live percussion and horn to investigate British identity, in particular ideas of masculinity & class.
Blue Now, a reimagining of Derek Jarman’s final film.
4 November 2024 • Toby Üpson
Indeed, it’s hard to compete with any of the artist, film maker, costume and stage designer, writer, poet, gardener, gay rights activist’s work.
Marriage of the Sea (the Rape of Venice)
15 April 2024 • Mark Westall
On the occasion of the 60th Edition of the Venice Biennale, THE POOL NYC presents Marriage of the Sea (the… Read More
Southbank Centre announces International Performance & Dance programme for 2024-2025
8 February 2024 • Mark Westall
The Southbank Centre has revealed its 2024-2025 Performance and Dance programme, featuring an array of international work, contemporary collaborations and… Read More
45m long bold painting & series of performances by Florence Peake head to Fruitmarket, Edinburgh
20 October 2023 • Mark Westall
Following a critically acclaimed exhibition and series of performances in London, Florence Peake’s most ambitious work to date is at… Read More
Serpentine Park Nights 2023: Art, Music, Dance, Poetry, Performance + Rave all *LIVE.
17 August 2023 • Mark Westall
Serpentine has revealed details of Park Nights 2023, its experimental, interdisciplinary, live programme sited within the annual architectural commission, the 22nd Serpentine… Read More
JR- INSIDE OUT, a public performance presented by Gallerie d’Italia in Turin
4 April 2023 • Mark Westall
At Gallerie d’Italia – Turin from 5th to 10th April, Intesa Sanpaolo presents the public art performance, INSIDE OUT. The project that… Read More
What’s the afterlife of performed artworks? ‘Forum: Bread and games’ investigates
10 March 2020 • Irene Machetti
How do we perceive objects when they become “activated” by a performer? Can there be, thereafter, a neutral spectatorship? ‘Forum: Bread and Games’, curated by Natalija Pauni for Open Space Contemporary, reflects on these questions, considering the precariousness of authors’ ideas and authorship.
Performance of new work by Dimitris Papaioannou: Sisyphus / Trans / Form
11 November 2019 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
The site specific performance commissioned by Collezione Maramotti responds to a world class private collection with challenges about meaning and our interaction with the material world.
Interview with Jeschkelanger & Hayk Seirig for Empty_Glass 05— a work of art for A Plus A gallery co-created by the artistic duo, the chef, and the public
11 September 2019 • Irene Machetti
The artistic duo Jeschkelanger collaborated with chef Hayk Seirig to present Empty_Glass 05. This immersive and overwhelming symposium resulted in an artwork exhibited at A Plus A gallery in Venice for the exhibition Anecdotes on Origin.
Modes of Performance
31 July 2019 • Paul Carey-Kent
Performance is present in many – maybe even all – artworks in some way, given that making is itself a performance. Here are three performative works I’ve liked recently:
Mimetic food: how Heather Sincavage exposes trauma, and heals from it
16 April 2019 • Irene Machetti
Read my interview with Heather Sincavage. The performace artists employs food metaphoric properties (both symbolically and visually) to explore and explode trauma.
Marroni-Ouanely playful performances teach us to fail, at PUBLIC Gallery
7 February 2019 • Irene Machetti
The Italian-French duo Marroni-Ouanely’s debut UK solo exhibition at PUBLIC Gallery is full of unorthodox imperfections. Sit back, smile, and enjoy.
UPCOMING: The Salamander Devours its Tail Twice
14 November 2018 • Mark Westall
The Salamander Devours its Tail Twice is an international group exhibition, curated by Ashley Middleton, featuring works from emerging and established artists.
The art of dreaming, or how art can shape dreams
7 June 2018 • Irene Machetti
Last week Allegra Shorto launched a new program dedicated to the exploration of dreams through the lense of a wide range of artistic practices. The Freud Museum hosted the first experiment on May 25th
LIMINALITY 2 (THE UNKNOWN) exploring new cross-disciplinary works in visual-sound-performance.
13 January 2018 • Mark Westall
The second instalment in the LIMINALITY series, exploring new cross-disciplinary works in visual-sound-performance. Focusing on ‘the Unknown’ as a central theme, Liminality 2 includes artists and performers working across diverse practises, from film, installation, sculpture, live performance, drawing and printmaking.
What’s Wrong With Art: Art Itself
30 December 2017 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan loves art and visits hundreds of exhibitions a year. But every now and then he comes across something in the art world that doesn’t meet his approval.
