Jasleen Kaur + Onyeka Igwe
Kaur and Igwe present their first ever performance works, reflecting on how history, political and social structures are experienced and contested.
Doors: 1.45pm
| Dates | Sat 28 Mar 2026 |
| Times | 2pm |
| Space | Lancaster Rooms, New Wing |
| Price | £15 (General) £12.50 (Concessions) |
Jasleen Kaur: Supra
Supra is a new commission by Jasleen Kaur, the Turner Prize-winning artist’s first performance work which brings together a group of musicians in an ensemble encompassing vocals, dilruba and trumpet. The systems and structures we live in and feel through are characterised through the performers, with each instrumentalist taking the role of a structure — border, Nation State, belief and body.
Supra plays with the blurring of harmonic consonance and discordance to synthesise how intimate lives are shaped and marred by these wider forces. The work’s tonal tension and collaged arrangement symbolise how events happening elsewhere reverberate both on a macro level – within public societal structures – and on a micro level, within the intimacy of our domestic lives and personal relationships.
Supra is commissioned by Somerset House Studios.
Ensemble:
Gurleen Singh - Dilruba and vocals
Devin Brown - Trumpet
Marged Siôn - Musical collaborator and vocals
Artists In Residence
Onyeka Igwe: No archive can restore this chorus of (diasporic) shame
Somerset House Studios resident Onyeka Igwe presents a live iteration of their film installation No archive can restore this chorus of (diasporic) shame, originally developed for the Nigeria Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024. The artist-filmmaker’s new commission transforms the work’s sonic component, an audio collage tracing Nigeria’s history of protest, into a new ambitious performance for Assembly.
A cacophonous 13-person a cappella choir reimagines songs from the Egba Market Women's Revolt — a seminal anti-colonial protest — found in the archive of educator and activist Funmilayo Ransome Kuti and composed into a new song cycle by artist and musician Tanya Auclair. Interlacing the choral arrangement is a collection of field recordings, video and spoken testimonials from research gathered over the last five years.Through sound and fragments of newly developed moving image, Igwe’s work invites audiences to explore the echoes of history and the complexities of cultural identity.
Onyeka Igwe's live performance of No archive can restore this chorus of (diasporic) shame is commissioned by Somerset House Studios.
Chorus:
Blue Blackley , Miryam Solomon, Bianca Stephens, Hannah Catherine Jones, Samra Mayanja, Nouria Bah, Buki Bayode, Jenny Moore, Cleo Thompson, Jessica Ashman, Chinedu Igwe-Walker, Fazah Raha, Munesu Mukombe
Biographies
Jasleen Kaur
Jasleen is an artist making with the slurry of life. Raised amidst betrayal, secrecy and banished outsiders, her work is to make sense of what is out of view or withheld. She is called towards plurality, declassifications, polyphony, the blur. She is practising singing in the sediment till she is intoxicated.
Her work has been shown at Tate Britain (2024), Tramway, Scotland (2023), Touchstones Rochdale (2021), Wellcome Collection, London (2021), Serpentine Civic, London (2020), Glasgow Women’s Library, Scotland (2019), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle (2019), MIMA, Middlesbrough (2018), Cubitt Gallery, London (2018), Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2017), Jerwood Space, London (2015). In 2019 her book Be Like Teflon was co-published by Glasgow Women’s Library and Dent-de-leone. She was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Artist Award in 2021 and winner of the Turner Prize 2024.
Onyeka Igwe
Onyeka Igwe is a London born and based, moving image artist and researcher. Her work is aimed at the question: how do we live together? Not to provide a rigid answer as such, but to pull apart the nuances of mutuality, co-existence and multiplicity. Onyeka’s practice figures sensorial, spatial and counter-hegemonic ways of knowing as central to that task. For her, the body, archives and narratives both oral and textual act as a mode of enquiry that makes possible the exposition of overlooked histories.
She has had solo/duo shows at Tate Britain (2025), MoMA PS1, New York (2023), High Line, New York (2022), Mercer Union, Toronto (2021), Jerwood Arts, London (2019) and Trinity Square Video, London (2018). Recent group exhibitions have been held at Rockbund Art Museum (2025), Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Nigeria Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice; Lagos Biennial, Lagos (all 2024); The Common Guild, Glasgow and South London Gallery, London; (2023). She was jointly awarded the Film London Jarman Award in 2025.