3 Evenings: Friday
Experiments in Performance and Technology.
| Dates | Fri 16 Oct 2026 |
| Times | 7pm-11.30pm |
| Space | 25 Wapping Wall, E1W 3SF |
| Price | £25 (General) £20 (Concessions) |
Artists in Residence
This event is part of 3 Evenings
Framed across three different live performance experiments each night, contemporary artists explore what it means to perform with technology now. The opening night of 3 Evenings invites Somerset House Studios artists Gazelle Twin and Lawrence Lek to the former hydraulic power station, alongside world premieres of newly commissioned interactive installations from Ayoung Kim, Keiken, Xin Liu and more, across all evenings.
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.
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 25 Wapping Wall.
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.
Header Image: Glitch 4, Gazelle Twin (courtesy of Artist)