the long night

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Sat 29 Oct

21.00-00.00

00.00-02.00

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Please note that timing includes clocks going back one hour at 02.00 when Daylight Saving Time ends.

River Rooms

New Wing

Part of Somerset House Studios

To mark the final weekend of We can no longer deny ourselves, SERAFINE1369 brings together a group of artists for the long night, a late night opening of the exhibition with live responses.

the long night coincides with the end of daylight saving time and acknowledges the seasonal shift in our daily routines with a series of performance interventions that take place across the spaces of the River Rooms. 

The night will include two three-hour programmes choreographed in relation to SERAFINE1369’s installation, responding to the presence and voices of the elements that make up the ‘exploded clock’, and the different rhythms and sensations proposed by the space. The interventions address the material, bodily and psychic in considering time and its non-linearity, fragmentation and cycling.

The programme will feature sonic and movement offerings from interdisciplinary artists including Antonija Livingstone, Nissa Nishikawa, tyroneisaacstuart, Mary Feliciano and Stephanie McMann. There will be specially prepared herbal tea blends available during the event (no alcohol will be served).

Visitors can book to attend one of two three-hour cycles:

First entry 21.00-00.00 
Second entry 00.00-02.00 (timing includes clocks going back one hour at 02.00 when Daylight Saving Time ends)

Biographies

Antonijia Livingstone

A. Livingstone makes things / actions / relations often in situ, often in collaboration. Livingstone’s practice operates at the intersection between performance and plastic arts, between urban and rural and new world, old world contexts. A body of work trembling on display that considers queer somatics and choreographies for a co-creation of refuge.

Mary Feliciano

Mary Feliciano is the TCM Specialist behind Bagua Therapies. Based in Lisbon and London, the brand focuses on promoting healthier patterns for a holistic lifestyle. With a BaHons in Chinese Medicine at ESMTC under the supervision of Nanjing University and more than nine years of experience in the field, The practitioner approach helps patients feel better and better understand their health.

Nissa Nishikawa

Nissa Nishikawa's multidisciplinary practice researches and interprets traditional forms of dance, ritual and craft in ways that illuminate animistic and alchemical philosophies with an embodied and structural approach. Nishikawa often works in the open-air and studios equipped to house fire; interconnecting the layers of the arcane with the supra-sensual, the living earth and various conscious inhabitants.

tyroneisaacstuart

tyroneisaacstuart is an East London born & based interdisciplinary artist. He works with dance, music and theology as materials for digital and live spaces. His works often draw on his training as a Jazz musician and Street/Contemporary dancer to make conceptual works focused on positively contributing to the imagination of Black British Caribbean Artistry. 

A drawing by SERAFINE1369 depicting bodily movements in sketch form.

Part of We can no longer deny ourselves

Somerset House Studios resident SERAFINE1369 (Jamila Johnson-Small) presents a new large scale, durational work exploring systems that shape our perceptions of time.