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I’M HERE - A NEW PERFORMANCE BY FRANKO B I’m Here is a new performance by Franko B, in collaboration with Anthony Martin. Known internationally as a pioneering performance artist, Franko B revisits his seminal bloodletting works for the first time in 15 years through 360° body-mapping techniques. The deep cuts, at times exaggerated and distorted, are interwoven with 7000 images from the…

THE QUEER HOUSE PRESENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH UGLY DUCK: DEAR YOUNG MONSTER (WORK IN PROGRESS SHARING) Written and performed by Pete Machale Directed by Sammy Glover Designed by Cecil Fenn The monster didn’t make the film. He’s not the one telling his story. I see that in that scene... the monster can’t win.” Pete is…

TRANS BOOK CLUB KINESIS Collective are an all-transgender and gender variant group composed of artists, activists and community organisers. Born out of lockdown, a time in which transgender people saw a fragmentation of their community, KINESIS aims to produce spaces of solitarity and healing. They are keen to create spaces for trans people outside of…

PENTHOUSS PRESENTS A NEW PERFORMANCE WORK CALL TO ARMS EXPLORING THEMES OF POLICING, CONTROL AND GOVERNANCE. Opening in London in October 2021, CALL TO ARMS is a new immersive artwork by PentHouss that uses dance, sound, light, optical illusion to explore themes of governmental power, control, and social unrest. PentHouss’ artists Anna Lann and Yonathan…

THE SUBLIME 3.0: FEAR AND AWE In our technological landscape, what is left of our ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful as conceptualised by Edmund Burke in 1757? Has the virtual enhanced our conception of the sublime? How can this idea be translated into the metaverse?  In this virtual reality exhibition, we have selected 11 international…

BLACK HORIZON'S - WORLDING WITHIN THE RUINS OF RACIAL CAPITALISM The current students from ADS2 will run a series of collective workshops + activities surrounding the theme of 'Worlding: Beyond Racial Capitalism'. ADS2 is a student collective from the Royal College of Art guided by Dele Adeyemo, Ibiye Camp and Dámaso Randulfe. Their work is framed from multiple worldviews,…

CIRCLE OF IDIOTS Have you ever thought you're a total idiot? Good news! You probably are. There’s a whole world of beautiful performance to be made if we can get in touch with our magnificent inner idiot, take a risk, follow our impulse and find the pleasure in playing from exactly who we are. In…

THE LAB BY TYLOR AND VINCENT Artist duo Tylor and Vincent want to extend their supportive neuroqueer environment of creating and experimenting through THE LAB. What do they mean by “neuroqueer”? In this context they are defining neuroqueer as people who are both queer and neurodivergent (autistic, adhd, add, ocd, bpd, etc.) Formal diagnosis is not required. ​THE LAB The…

MOVING PHOTON Moving Photon is an interactive installation/performance created by installation artist Friendred Peng that explores embodiment, social connection and remote presence during the age of the pandemic. This work translates physiological data from live EEG recordings to an installation and explores embodied approaches in computational synergized space. In this piece, EEG data is streamed…

TYLOR AND VINCENT: SPACE https://vimeo.com/663357881 We are Tylor and Vincent and we’ve got arts council money to create our own space (COMMA) so we thought we’d share that space with your space and maybe do a show about space (FULL STOP) What is space (QUESTION MARK) Is it outer space (QUESTION MARK) Is there inner…

‘CRAFTING OURSELVES’ In collaboration with Ugly Duck, Courtauld LGBTQIA+ Society is staging a 3-day event of LGBTQIA+ craft From We'wha’s Native American textiles, to Bloomsbury Group ceramics, to t-shirts dyed by the Lavender Menace, craft has long been a key part of LGBTQIA+ visibility, creativity, identity and community. To further this, we are organising a…

DEEP MEANINGFUL CONVERSATION CURATED BY BABETTE WHITING AND HUGO HAGGER ‘From the tunnels, from the sewers, where two rat armies were locked in a life-and- death battle, came a wish of wastewater, a subterranean subtext. Today was a beautiful day.’ -Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude ‘The tunnel is a political site, but in itself…

AN EVENING EXPLORING MULTIPLE TRANS-IDENTITIES THROUGH FILMS, PERFORMANCES AND DISCUSSIONS Ugly Duck is incredibly proud to invite Hélène Alix Mourrier to present their latest film HERMAN@S (SiblingX) for the first time in London at Ugly Duck. Films HERMAN@S (SiblingX) - 28 min One night in Mexico in October 2011, a dream of a mysterious and prescient…

THE DE-ORIENTED EXHIBITION WILL FEATURE EMERGING SOUTHEAST ASIAN ARTISTS LIVING AND WORKING IN LONDON The aim of the exhibition is to challenge stereotypes and misunderstandings of Southeast Asia. There are common misconceptions surrounding Southeast Asian countries and cultures within the UK, where the image of white palm-lined beaches often mask the tumultuous political and social…

IS CONTINUITY OR DISCONTINUITY MORE IMPORTANT IN STORYTELLING? HOW CAN WE THINK OF NARRATION AS A TRANSFORMATIVE JOURNEY? The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned from Crete had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as…

The time is here for a whole load of reunification and celebration, and what better way to patch London’s emerging creative scene back together than with an evening of performance / music / installation / meetings / greetings / old friends / new friends / new connection / bold reflection! For one vibrant evening, the…