Performances that hold a mirror up to society and confronting, head-on, issues through the disarming yet damning use of drag culture.
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Janet Street-Porter takes us on a journey back to London in the swinging 1960s, as she shares her story of being cast in Blow-Up, a British cinema icon.
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A series of new works from Studio resident artists Alan Warburton, AlbumCorp and FRAUD.
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Using film, photography and music, Caleb Femi pushes the boundaries of poetry on the page.
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A newly commissioned collaborative work for Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy from Studios residents Laura Grace Ford and Sam Williams.
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Artist working across sculptures, installations, paintings and performance.
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Presenting new online works with EBM(T), a virtual aural room and aural experimentation practice for discovery and sharing of sounds.
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the three interrelated values of privacy, agency, and trust work together in the very different ... wisdom and alternative approaches to ideas and values from the rest of the world? This work was supported ... the artists will already be engaging with some of these themes as part of their practice. Both new ...
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Artist, Poet and Visual Storyteller from South London working in installation, textiles, poetry, performance, sculpture and sound.
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As part of our East Wing Edit join us for inspiring talks from industry insiders curated by our weekly takeovers.
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An ontological adventure into voice recognition, language, semiotics, sensory experience, immersive sound and imagination.
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Oretha amplifies and celebrates listening and sound as an embodied and collective practice. Her works are ... attentive to not just the music, but the musicality of Black oral and aural traditions, ceremonies and ...
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A programme of multi-site visits curated by artist Eloise Hawser, based on research into unusual and contested spaces, museums and collections around the UK.
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For her first public commission in the UK, London-based artist Theresa Weber produces a site-specific installation responding to the history and architecture of Somerset House.
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Disabled artist and writer Jamila Prowse is joined by curator and writer Iarlaith Ni Fheorais, artist filmmaker, producer and writer Jameisha Prescod and artist and writer Marie Smith.
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progress in relation to our Anti-Racism pledge. We acknowledge that we have not kept up our intended ... 6-monthly updates, but this is not for lack of activity. Our public programme Having completed the review ... has been used to inform many areas of our work including an update and relaunch of our Historical ...
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Curator Taylor LeMelle joins us to discuss Gallery 31 exhibition Swimmers Limb.
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Somerset House Studios announces details of new programming for 2023
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A film screening, live performances and a reading expanding on storytelling and fictional activism.
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Llearn how to compose an immersive soundscape for web and online platforms.
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