3 Evenings: Saturday
Experiments in Performance and Technology.
| Dates | Sat 17 Oct 2026 |
| Times | 6.30pm-11pm |
| 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 second night of 3 Evenings invites collaborators Gary Zhexi Zhang, Klara Kofen and Cameron Graham, and New York's Team Rolfes, 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.
Gary Zhexi Zhang, Klara Kofen, Cameron Graham: Puss
A reimagination of Giambattista Basile’s 17th-century story of Puss in Boots through a performance centred on a robot dog moving through a simulated 3D landscape. The work is a robotic installation, featuring a robot dog, a live game engine simulation, and a remote controlled treadmill, performed by three operator/puppeteers and a live musician.
The performance is accompanied by a generative score for baroque instruments and electronics drawing on Italian folk music. the composition unfolds as a responsive musical system, reconfiguring in real time within an immersive surround-sound environment.
Team Rolfes: The Mustang Speedrun - Pit Call
Making their UK debut, New York-based outfit Team Rolfes, known for their collaborations with Arca and Lady Gaga, bring their new, chaotic, prototype club-theatre performance to 3 Evenings.
Blending live motion capture and game engine animation, avatar jockeys race to keep a failing exoskeleton running. Team Rolfes opens up their performance apparatus, a motion-captured, broadcast-rigged cockpit at the centre of their flagship project Mustang Speedrun, handing control to the audience for a one-night experiment that relies on the entire room. Part game show, part emergency, the group and their musical collaborator will need collective input to make it through in one piece.
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.
Puss 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
Team Rolfes
Team Rolfes is an NYC-based virtual performance studio co-directed by brothers Sam Rolfes and Andy Rolfes, pioneering live 3D storytelling through experimental motion capture, VR puppetry, and real-time game engines.
Over the last decade, their work has manifested as contorted visual design for music, livestream improvisational comedy, televised animated shorts, and multi-media narrative theatre, with collaborators and clients including Lady Gaga, Arca, Danny Elfman, Ninajirachi, Holly Herndon, Metallica, Danny L Harle, Holly Herndon, Adult Swim, & Nike. Sam is also a Lincoln Center Collider Fellow.
Their first flagship show 321Rule, co-written with Jacob Bakkila and starring a rotating cast of musicians, toured sold-out performances at Soft Centre Sydney, CTM Festival Berlin, and Diskokina NYC/LA and beyond – to over 4,000 people. Their biggest project yet, the broadcast-spectacle world of Mustang Speedrun, is now in development for the stage and playable download.
Gary Zhexi Zhang
Gary Zhexi Zhang is a Somerset House Studios artist and writer, whose work draws connections between cosmology, technology and economy. His recent work examines how geopolitical imagination is shaped and mediated.
He recently edited a book about finance and time, Catastrophe Time! (Strange Attractor Press, 2023). In 2026, Zhang leads a programme at TBA21-Academy researching West Mediterranean climate futures. He is currently writing a book about technoculture in a multipolar world, under contract with Berggruen Press.
Klara Kofen
Klara Kofen is an artist, dramaturg and writer, whose work explores how technological interfaces shape our relation to time and affect. Recent works include ‘Fake & Extinct’ (Centrale Fies, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2025), ‘Admiror, or Revolutionary Sentiments’ (Guggenheim Museum, NYC, 2024) and ‘Dead Cat Bounce - an oratorio about finance and catastrophe’ (Nottingham Contemporary, Arts Catalyst, Somerset House, 2022-2024). In 2026-27, she will develop a new installation for Oceanspace in Venice through Tidal Arts. Klara is the artistic director of Waste Paper Opera.
Cameron Graham
Cameron Graham is an artist, composer and creative technologist whose work unsettles and reorients sonic experience through intermedia, parafiction and simulation. He explores cultural histories of entertainment, audiovisual technology and automation across installation, electronic music, sculpture, performance and interaction design. Recent projects include ‘Admiror, or Revolutionary Sentiments’ (Guggenheim Museum, NYC, 2024) and ‘Sweet People’ (London Symphony Orchestra, 2026). Installations have been exhibited in Paris, Nantes and Moscow, and musical works commissioned by numerous orchestras and ensembles internationally. He holds a lectureship in music and new media in London, and his electronic music is released on the Phantom Limb label.
Header image: Puss, courtesy Gary Zhexi Zhang, Klara Kofen, Cameron Graham. 2026.