3 Evenings: Friday
Experiments in Performance and Technology: Live performances by Gazelle Twin, Jenkin van Zyl & Agnieszka Szczotka, and Lawrence Lek.
This event is happening offsite at Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, E1W 3SF
| Dates | Fri 16 Oct 2026 |
| Times | 7–10.30pm |
| Space | Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, E1W 3SF |
| Price | £25 (General) £20 (Concessions) |
Artists in Residence
This event is part of 3 Evenings
The opening night of 3 Evenings invites Somerset House Studios artists Gazelle Twin, Jenkin van Zyl and Lawrence Lek to explore what it means to perform with technology now, alongside presenting world premieres of newly commissioned interactive installations from Ayoung Kim, Keiken, Xin Liu and more.
Gazelle Twin: Ragebait
Composer and performer Gazelle Twin explores whether our dependence on technology is entering an age of reckoning. In Ragebait, robotics and voice synergise in rebellion to create through destruction, questioning whether technology is something we should deny and disavow, or just the shadow of our true nature.
Jenkin van Zyl & Agnieszka Szczotka: Hostess
A new live performance drawn from Enclosure, van Zyl's newly commissioned film and installation running concurrently at Somerset House.
Enclosure introduces a now-defunct franchise that once leased tourists the temporary inhabitation of manufactured doubles known as Cherubs. The Hostess, performed by Szczotka, is the franchise's promotional face. Recorded in its golden age, she continues to deliver her welcome with unwavering conviction to an audience that no longer exists.
At Wapping, the saleswoman becomes the specimen. Held on display and on continuous broadcast, the Hostess trains herself on her own material — version after version, warping, fragmenting and multiplying — as the pitch outlives the system it was made to sell.
Lawrence Lek: NOX (Live)
A new live performance reimagining NOX, the artist’s large-scale immersive exhibition exploring the psychological consequences of a future shaped by smart systems and intelligent machines. Presented in a focused live format, it will incorporate new sound material developed for 3 Evenings.
3 Evenings is a playful reimagining of the 1966 event 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering, considered a pivotal moment in the history of artists working with new technologies. A three-night event and international transmission, it will bring Somerset House Studios’ distinctive approach to interdisciplinary experimentation offsite to east London’s Wapping Hydraulic Power Station.
3ETV, an interactive TV channel and evolving digital artwork broadcasting beyond the live event, will extend the project online, in partnership with Pioneer Works (NYC) and HEK (House of Electronic Arts) in Basel.
3 Evenings is supported by Glass Castle Foundation.
Ragebait is supported by the Creative Robotics Research Hub, UAL.
The Creative Robotics Research Hub is a platform for exploring the expanding role of robotics within creative practice, research, and cultural discourse.
Find out more about the Creative Robotics Research Hub here.
Biographies
Gazelle Twin
Gazelle Twin AKA Elizabeth Bernholz is an Ivor-nominated British composer and performance artist creating experimental electro-acoustic music that draws on diverse musical roots. Since has been a resident at Somerset House Studios since 2025.
Her work takes an unconventional approach, fusing sound design, live acoustic instrumentation and electronics with an output that ranges from A capella vocal works, to electronic dance-music and sweeping cinematic arrangements. She is known for her striking use of voice, pairing extended singing techniques and signature electronic vocal effects.
Since 2011 Gazelle Twin has released six critically-acclaimed studio albums which embody vivid conceptual themes and feature live performances with dramatic staging, costume and visuals. She has collaborated extensively with leading figures in music, film and theatre including; The London Contemporary Orchestra, Halsey (with Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross), Gary Numan, Robert McKillop, Maxine Peake and more.
Lawrence Lek
Lawrence Lek is a multimedia artist, filmmaker and musician whose work merges video games, film, installation, sound and speculative fiction to construct immersive, science-fiction-inflected worlds he often describes as a cinematic universe.
A resident of Somerset House Studios since 2018, his work has been exhibited internationally in solo and institutional shows including the Hammer Museum (LA), Life Before Automation at Goldsmiths CCA (UK), and Nøtel at Fotografiska Shanghai. In 2024 Lek won the prestigious Frieze London Artist Award and was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in AI.
Jenkin van Zyl
Jenkin van Zyl is an artist and filmmaker based in London with a multidisciplinary practice comprising film, performance, writing and sculpture. Van Zyl’s work combines these disciplines in hallucinatory, immersive installations, typically centred around film, which give birth to fantastical communities inhabiting transient spaces: ghouls breeding cakes in aircrafts, inflatable beasts in a desert fortress, or rats writhing in love hotels. Beyond the screen, the protagonists and their worlds have a material legacy as “escapees”, in the form of sculptures and objects that pervade van Zyl’s oeuvre.
Agnieszka Szczotka
Agnieszka Szczotka is a writer and performer based in London.
Fusing both the personal and historical, her texts oscillate between disparate styles of writing, from darkly humorous to surreal, fragmented and appropriated, and span various emotional registers. She often employs historical figures as protagonists in her texts and brings them to life in her performances, as a means to contest and rewrite received historical narratives.