performance Archives

Pointing the Finger: Daria Blum

26/09/2024

Dance across borders and generations...

A mural painted by Megan Rooney at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge

Bringing Radical Impermanence to the Institution: Megan Rooney at Kettle’s Yard

01/07/2024

A three-week residency in Cambridge sees Megan Rooney bring all new large-scale works on canvas, a series of dance performances and a site-specific mural painted directly onto the walls of Kettle’s...

Actions and journeying with Jill Smith on the Outer Hebrides

21/06/2024

Edinburgh creative space Fruitmarket prepares to host Zodiac Journey—a documentation of artist Jill Smith's performances across the Outer Hebrides archipelago....

Jungstötter’s One Star

26/07/2023

A Review of Jungstötter’s latest album One Star....

D_ance for the Disappeared

11/07/2023

A performance exploring disappearance through paint and dance. ...

Bengi Ünsal Named as New Director of the ICA London

10/01/2022

Bengi Ünsal will become the first woman to serve as the organisation’s director in over five decades...

Life is a Performance: Cassils

06/10/2021

Millie Walton speaks to visual artist Cassils about the body, mark-making and simulating acts of violence ...

Marina Abramović Opens Two Shows in London

19/09/2021

The Serbian performance artist presents two solo exhibitions spread across Lisson Gallery's London spaces ...

Alberta Whittle: “I Felt the World Unravelling”

07/08/2021

Turner prize-winning artist Alberta Whittle on her latest film and treating her audience with generosity...

The Performer and Audience Create the Work Together: Marina Abramović

25/07/2021

The "godmother of performance art" speaks to Millie Walton about immortality, eroticism and the public body...

Two Major Solo Exhibitions Celebrate the Work of Sutapa Biswas

19/03/2021

Solo exhibitions at BALTIC and Kettle’s Yard will look back on the British Indian artist's career and showcase a new film exploring issues of migration...

Shooting Down Babylon by Tracey Rose

12/02/2021

The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town will host a large-scale exhibition of revolutionary artist Tracey Rose...

China Changing Festival Returns for Grand Finale

08/08/2018

Southbank Centre’s China Changing Festival celebrating innovative contemporary Chinese culture returns with a packed four-day programme for its grand finale....

Emilio Vedova, Icon of Radical Italian Art

29/05/2018

The hero of radical Italian art in who painting is reinvigorated as the premier medium encompassing all others. ...

Daniel Morden: The Empty Hand (Crick Crack Club, Soho Theatre)

21/12/2017

His dark materials: Daniel Morden shines a light at the Crick Crack Club (Soho Theatre)...

Loitered Lens: Great British Tattoo Show

20/07/2017

It's not just ink at the Great British Tattoo Show (there's rubber, lace and unguents too)...

Can We Really Do Spatial Audio? (Seeing With Your Ears)

28/06/2017

Novel acoustics project aims to improve virtual reality and explore ear shape effects on 3-D sound...

Disbelief is right there all the time: Maynard Flip Flap

11/03/2017

Some audiences are horrible. Maynard Flip Flap's Rick Allen dares to voice the forbidden truth....

Urban(e) Legends: Prodigal Theatre & The Urban Playground Team

16/01/2017

Fourth wall on the street? Not our style at all....

Seductive Storytelling, Metaphor and Myth (Shifter at Soho Theatre)

25/02/2016

Layered fables, haunting modern myth and Afro-Caribbean folk tales in Crick Crack Club's Soho Theatre session...

Lydia Lunch: The Lexington

06/09/2012

Fresh from her performance at the Manchester 'Fat-out' festival, Lydia Lunch relished the part of 'Mistress of Ceremonies', showcasing various friends and new talents that she had cobbled together...

Bloodstock 2012

05/09/2012

Their fist-pumping fusion of brutish guitar and folk-esque synth lines make for a brilliant way to kick off my Bloodstock. They bring a feeling of raw ‘epic-ness’ that, although strived for by...