Sharing: Performance in Practice
Wet Mess, Jose Funnell, and Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome share work in-progress.
Part of Grounding Practice: Performance Symposium
| Dates | Sat 6 Dec 2025 |
| Times | 7.00-8.00pm |
| Space | Lancaster Rooms, New Wing |
| Price | £7 (General) / £5 (Concessions) |
Performance in Residence artists Wet Mess, Jose Funnell, and Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome collaborate with Nando Messias, Lie Ning, and Seán Being respectively, sharing in-progress works developed together over a one-week period at Somerset House Studios.
Artists In Residence
Communities
Biographies
Nando Messias
Nando Messias' work straddles performance art, dance and theatre. Their performances combine beautiful images with a fierce critique of gender, visibility and violence. Nando has performed at prestigious venues such as the Royal Court, The Gate, Hayward Gallery, V&A, Tate Britain, Roundhouse, Royal Vauxhall Tavern and ICA, among other spaces across the UK and internationally.
As well as a practitioner, Nando is movement director and a researcher of queer theory and performance. Nando’s publications include ‘Sissy that Walk: The Sissy’s Progress’ in Queer Dramaturgies (2016), ‘visibility: Performance and Activism’ in Performing Interdisciplinarity (2017), 'Injurious Acts: A Struggle With Sissy in Performance in Choros International Dance Journal (2018), 'Bibi is a Sissy: Drag, Death by Silence and the Journey to Self-Determination from Brazil to Britain' in Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories (2020), 'This is My Body: the Queer Messianic Dysphora of The Pink Supper' (2022) and 'TransMission: Sissy TV' (2023).
Nando's most recent work, Complete Breech, was commissioned by and performed at the Whitechapel Gallery as part of their London Open Live Programme in 2025.
Lie Ning
Musician, model, dancer, and art director LIE NING is making waves with their genre-transgressing blend of pop and R&B. Nominated for a 2021 ANCHOR award at Hamburg’s new talent festival Reeperbahn Festival, and shortlisted for Germany’s prestigious Preis für Popkultur last year, the artist may be well-known already in their home country, but is now taking their music – which explores the interplay of language, queer identity, and the escapism of the dancefloor – global.
After featuring on a Spotify billboard in New York’s Time Square in 2023, and securing a number of prominent feature spots on playlists such as GLOW and Radar GSA, last year saw LIE NING make their debut at Austin’s SXSW, followed by an eco-friendly European tour in collaboration with Goethe-Institut.
2025 saw LIE NING move into London’s performance spaces with a sound piece in response to Lynette Yiadom-Boake’s work Razorbill exhibited at Tate Britain and a three hour long durational performance under the direction of Joshua Woolford at Whitechapel Gallery.
Seán Being
Seán Being is an Irish musician working across popular and experimental music, composition, voice and performance. They work as a solo artist and collaborator, most recently in the band Princ€ss, and with site-specific performance through a variety of means—lately car horns, plainchant, bass guitars and tuning forks—thinking through material, social and historical bases of music performance. Seán holds an MA from the Dutch Art Institute Roaming Academy (2024) and currently lives in London.
With thanks to
