3 Evenings: Sunday

Lynn Hershman Leeson: Constructing Roberta

Conceived as an alter ego, Roberta Breitmore was first created in the 1970s as a fictional character with her own driver's licence, credit card and psychiatrist, developing a life parallel to that of the artist. Over time, the project expanded beyond performance into a broader investigation of identity, authorship and representation.The project culminated in a ritualistic exorcism, yet Roberta continued to evolve, reappearing throughout the 1980s and beyond in the form of robotic and digital avatars, including CyberRoberta in the 1990s.

Now, over five decades since she first appeared, Roberta returns, getting ready, once again, for an audience. Constructing Roberta is a live performance that finds the character navigating later life, at a moment when ideas of truth and identity have been further complicated by the rituals and trends of online culture. The audience is invited to consider what it means to construct — and to perform — an authentic self in a world of doubles, filters and constant self-presentation. The artist asks "Maybe we are all Roberta?"

Ligia Lewis: The Rant That Can't

Set within the resonant architecture of the power station and shaped by augmented 4D sound design, the space becomes an active participant, catching and amplifying each utterance.

The work unfolds through an embodied exploration of arrested speech. A single voice, or at times a shifting chorus, attempts to deliver a rant that never fully arrives. Words falter, repeat, collapse, and reform as chants or partial songs. Fragments of speech loop and echo through the space, building a rhythm that moves between play and strain. What begins as an effort to communicate becomes an exploration of communication’s failure.

Precious Renee Tucker

Arkansas-based experimental pianist Precious Renee Tucker presents a new live performance expanding her long-standing interest in planetary science for 3 Evenings.

An artist whose nascent acclaim emerged from viral posts on TikTok and Instagram, Tucker's social media videos have drawn the internet's attention to her singular playing and profound relationship with the piano. The instrumentalist's home-recorded improvisations and renditions, characterised by their use of multiple keyboards, pianos, and synthesizers at once, see her span styles ranging from classical and free jazz to witch house and gospel. Precious’ online following has sparked demand for performances globally, with recent live shows across the US and Europe.

At Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, Tucker shares a unique presentation inspired by weather as some of the first detailed data received from new planets. Part composition, part weather report, the work brings the pianist in collaboration with a team of astrophysicists in London, an experiment combining cosmological research with live performance, to score exoplanetary atmospheres and observations.

dmstfctn: Big things coming (human in the loop)

Big things coming tells the story of Degular, who works as a data-labeller by day and rapper by night. Trained to describe the world through objective, manageable language, Degular strives to meet what others expect of it but struggles when confronted with something that cannot be labelled, categorised or explained. As its language begins to fail, a new form of expression emerges.

For 3 Evenings, Degular steps into the spotlight to deliver a rap performance using lyrics influenced by audience interaction. Anyone visiting playground.dmstfctn.net on the weeks leading up to 3 Evenings will be able to play an image captioning game, training Degular’s language and influencing its rap performance, later voiced by rapper Jawnino.