For AGM 2023, the Studios have invited three guest curators to each host different spaces across the ground floor of Somerset House’s New Wing - Studios residents Joe Namy and Akinola Davies, plus interdisciplinary artist Rosa-Johan Uddoh. AGM also offers audiences late night access to Sonya Dyer’s River Rooms installation Three Parent Child.
Artist and composer Joe Namy presents Disguise as Dancefloor in the Lancaster Rooms, inviting collaborators to come together on a custom, copper-tiled dancefloor for a series of four improvised performances, paring guest DJs Cõvco, Ain Bailey, Nihal El Aasar and Paul Purgas with movement artists Malik Nashad Sharpe, Alexandrina Hemsley (Yewande 103), Dove and Hannah Hernandez. A “super-charged platform”, Disguise as Dancefloor reflects Namy’s influences: the wide range of experiences that unfold on the dancefloor, the subversive politics of bass, and the effects of sound on the body, including healing properties and other alchemical resonances.
In the intimate G30 space, writer, director and moving image artist Akinola Davies has invited James Massiah, percussionists Edward Wakili-Hick and Ursula Holliday, and multidisciplinary collective LA CREOLE for an evening of music, spoken word and live drums in dialogue.
Artist and performer Rosa-Johan Uddoh presents Ye Olde Performance: An Audience With The Horrid Sisters, a three-act live performance with collaborators Shola von Reinhold and Thandi Loewenson in G16.
This is an 18+ event