3 Evenings: Sunday
Experiments in Performance and Technology.
| Dates | Sun 18 Oct 2026 |
| Times | 3.30pm–8pm |
| 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 final 3 Evenings event invites Ligia Lewis 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.
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.
Supported by Goethe-Institut London
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.
Biographies
Ligia Lewis
Ligia Lewis is an artist, choreographer, dancer, and director, and a central figure in redefining contemporary performance. Working across stage, exhibition, and film, her works are marked by physical and emotional intensity, where comedy and tragedy collide.
Recent commissions include Wayward Chant for Gropius Bau / Berliner Festspiele. A Plot / A Scandal for the Center for Arts, Research, and Alliances (New York) and Sensation 1/This Interior (High Line Commission). Lewis participated in the 2024 Whitney Biennial.
Header Image: Ligia Lewis, Wayward Chant, Gropius Bau, 2025. Photo by Rosa Merk.