The evening brings together performances by artists Florence Peake and Eve Stainton, Nina Davies, Violet Savage, Adam Christensen and Sunun alongside work from residents Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom, Harun Morrison, Imran Perretta and Noah Bador, plus DJs John T. Gast, i-sha and Studios artist felix taylor.
A cycle of performances will unfold, relay and overlap in the ground floor’s River Rooms. Florence Peake and Eve Stainton present the collaborative movement work Practice 1. This durational performance will see the multi-disciplinary artists slowly navigate the three chambers of the River Rooms whilst interlocked at the crotch. Harun Morrison presents a series of live readings throughout the evening, exploring non-words. These linguistic tools are used by speech therapists to gauge aspects of language acquisition. The artist and writer expands on work currently on display in the G31 Dono exhibition – also open throughout the evening – alongside work by Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom.
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Boakye-Yiadom transposes Dono’s sculptural work Completely Different Events into live performance, inviting Bristol-based producer and selector Sunun to remix the installation’s original sound. Audiences will be given late-night access to the adjoining Lancaster Rooms for Imran Perretta’s large-scale installation, A Riot In Three Acts. Evolved from the artists’ own experience of the 2011 riots, the exhibition takes the form of an expansive film set and spatialised cinematic score.
Elsewhere on the ground floor, another set of performances will emerge in the introspective G30 space. Multidisciplinary artist Adam Christensen will give a dramatic, musical and spoken recitation. In the same space filmmaker and artist Noah Bador presents re:TR/EAD, an immersive performance incorporating sound, spoken word, collaged moving image and punctuated moments of collaboration with dancer Violet Savage.
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Artist Nina Davies will share a series of four dances that roam throughout the New Wing. The pieces include a slow-motion walk popularised on TikTok, a glitch and pause movement referencing the mannequin challenge, an enactment of the non-playable characters found in video games, and a viral routine mimicking video-edited acceleration.
This year’s AGM unlocks the building’s mid-basement level, usually closed to the public. Audiences can descend New Wing’s staircase from the ground floor for DJs John T. Gast (5 GATE TEMPLE) and i-sha, alongside an experimental live mix from Studios resident felix taylor.