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2 October 2016
Video-poems and new writing from Michael Smith
Join us at the Archway With Words book festival for a selection of new writings, readings and films by Michael Smith. Michael Smith is the author of several novels (Giro Playboy, Unreal City, and Shorty Loves Wing Wong for Faber & Faber), but his work also explores how writing can enrich other media – he’s made an album of […]
29 September 2016
Programme 1 Launch Event
Launching Visions in the Nunnery’s Programme 1, featuring Uriel Orlow, Mikhail Karikis and Ruth Novaczek and Tanya Syed, with works that that follow the meandering of special characters and their train of thoughts. The evening will feature live performances from Calum F Kerr, Philip Lee & Cally Trench, Jacek Ludwig Scarso, who will premiere […]
29 September 2016
Visions Symposium
The Visions symposium will explore how do emerging media inform moving image and performance practices with a Lizzie Masterton live performance and a special screening of Roma MAF (Media Art Festival) works selected by Valentino Catricalà and Laura Leuzzi. Curated by Cinzia Cremona and Tessa Garland, Visions 2016 showcases over 100 international artists’ work through […]
27 September 2016
Marina Abramović’s The Scream
To celebrate Visions in the Nunnery’s performances weekend, join us for an exclusive screening of Marina Abramović’s THE SCREAM with LIMA. Artists screened throughout the weekend will include Liam Geary Baulch & Jeremy Laffon, G. Roland Biermann, Anne Brodie, Lidija Kononenko, Irina Danilova & Hiram Levy, Robert Luzar, Antonis Sideras, Nick Turvey & Joanna […]
19 September 2016
The Yaz Fentazi Trio
The Mosaic Rooms and Arts Canteen are pleased to present a special intimate concert by The Yaz Fentazi Trio(Algeria). The Yaz Fentazi Trio perform music that draws on the rich musical traditional of jazz, blues and North African music, built around their original compositions, the trio’s irresistible grooves and vibrant rhythm create a sizzling party atmosphere. The music […]
20 August 2016
Those Nights of Magic and Myth
Immerse yourself in the power of stories with Chirine El Ansary’s free rewritings of cycles from The One Thousand and One Nights. In this 50-minute storytelling performance, Chirine El Ansary will weave a thread of magic and enchantment across one of the richest and evoking products of the human imagination and transport you through an endless […]
19 August 2016
‘Scarred, Shifting and Sacred Sites’: an evening of art, advocacy and performance
Join us for an evening of artists’ talks, presentations and discussion to investigate the ways performative practices challenge prejudice, fear and violence towards the body in society. For the second of two themed conversations in the gallery in September Autograph ABP invites curatorial partnership Something Human to guest curate an evening of artist presentations and […]
29 July 2016
‘Desire Caught by the Tail’ by Pablo Picasso
The Nunnery Gallery is proud to host the first UK production of Picasso’s rarely produced play Desire Caught by the Tail in two exclusive outdoor performances to mark the end of their summer event programme. Award-winning company LUXE will present Picasso’s highly stylised and surrealist piece of theatre, directed by founder and Bow Arts artist […]
16 July 2016
The Chronotopes of Palestine
The Chronotopes of Palestine is a series of five audio-visual ethnographic short films, which explore the relationship between memory and place in the context of the ongoing Palestinian dispossession through the memories of three generations of families in Poland and the UK. The films can be described as ‘follow the routes’ films that strive to trace […]
12 July 2016
Sybarite Nights
Sybarite Nights music happenings take place in one of London’s best kept secret venues for fabulous and unexpected pleasures. Expect fabled and exquisite performances from an expanded spectrum of performers young and old. Musicians and performers for this popular evening of entertainment will feature some very special guests along with a line-up of some of our brilliant regular […]
8 July 2016
Once Upon a Time in Croydon
The evening presents a rare opportunity to watch a series of short documentaries of 1960s Croydon on the big screen and features historic footage from the British Pathé archive. It is part of National Trust’s Edge City: Croydon week which celebrates the contemporary heritage of the Borough.
4 July 2016
Long Play: Past and Future Records
Explore The Mosaic Rooms after hours this summer at a special music themed late opening. DJ Chris Menist will be spinning the best in rare and vintage Arabic vinyl as you immerse yourself in Larissa Sansour’s first London solo exhibition “In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain(link is external)“. A single song can have the […]
23 June 2016
Jude Crilly: Forecasting
The RYDER Projects is pleased to present Forecasting, a solo exhibition by Jude Crilly. Through sculpture and video the exhibition projects the world of forecasting – the process of predicting future trends based on present data. The gallery space becomes a set of speculation, where the world of fashion interlaces with abstraction, virtuality and complexity. The artist […]
23 June 2016
Jerwood Staging Series
Four events staging live work and moving-image commissioned by Jerwood Charitable Foundation will take place on 7,9,12 and 14 July, supporting event-based presentations of work by over 18 artists. For its tenth anniversary summer season, Jerwood Visual Arts present four one off events in early July supporting the work of over 18 early career artists. […]
14 June 2016
Wagner’s Parsifal and the Challenge to Psychoanalysis
International Day Conference In our conference ‘Wagner, Freud and the End of Myth’ (2013) we argued that by taking the mythic dimension and bringing it into the human realm, Wagner anticipated Freud in his depiction of unconscious processes of the mind. It could be said that Freud and Wagner were dealing with the same stuff […]
14 June 2016
The Psycho-Cultural Dynamics of Emotion, Power and Politics in Richard III
Panel discussion and performance The Freud Museum in association with Bournemouth University present a special panel discussion on the themes of Shakespeare’s Richard III and the motivations of its characters and the play’s relevance for contemporary understandings of emotion and politics. The event includes the performance of some key speeches from the play as performed […]
14 June 2016
Alexandra Pirici and Manuel Pelmus: Public Collection Tate Modern
A live exploration of artworks that questions the museum as a permanent collection Public Collection Tate Modern 2016 is a new site-specific work by the Romanian artists Alexandra Pirici and Manuel Pelmus. The work is enacted by a group of five performers who use their bodies to transform artworks originally made in other media. These include […]
14 June 2016
Tania Bruguera: Tatlins Whisper #5
Two mounted police officers patrol the museum space, guiding and controlling the audience In Tania Bruguera’s Tatlins Whisper #5 two police officers use crowd control techniques that are familiar to anyone who has attended a pop concert, football match or political demonstration. The performance might include: closing off the gallery entrance or entrances; manipulating the audience into a single […]
14 June 2016
Roman Ondak: Good Feelings in Good Times
A chance to see the first performance work to enter the Tate collection Roman Ondák’s Good Feelings in Good Times 2003 is an artificially created queue performed by a small group of participants. Though it may not be instantly recognisable as an artwork when it is in the gallery, within a forty-minute period, the queue will form, dissolve […]