Somerset House Studios will mark its 10th anniversary with a new film and on-site installation by Jenkin van Zyl plus three nights of contemporary performance and technology in east London.
The London space for artists working across art, culture and new technologies has supported more than 200 artists from diverse global backgrounds to collaborate, experiment and bring bold new ideas to life.
To celebrate 10 years resident Studios artist and filmmaker Jenkin van Zyl will premiere Enclosure, an immersive film installation that explores a culture where technological advancement has outpaced our ability to make sense of it.
The film will be screened within a large-scale installation at Somerset House’s Lancaster Rooms from Thursday, September 24th to Sunday, November 26th.
Visitors will move through the material remains of the facility: fairground signage, holograms, inflatable cocoons, and decaying ephemera.
From Friday, October 16th to Sunday, October 18th, 3 Evenings will be presented at 25 Wapping Wall.
Artists from the Somerset House Studios community will collaborate for public experiments exploring performance and technology in a reimagining of 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering, a groundbreaking moment in the history of artists working with new technologies which took place in New York in 1966.
Framed across three different live experiments on each of the three nights, the live performances will sit within a programme of installations and activations, and include premieres of interactive installations from Ayoung Kim, Keiken, and Xin Liu with further works to be announced.
Director of Somerset House Studios, Marie McPartlin said: "Since launching in 2016, the Studios has become a home for artists pushing the boundaries of culture, a home with inclusion and innovation at its heart.
The London space for artists working across art, culture and new technologies has supported more than 200 artists from diverse global backgrounds to collaborate, experiment and bring bold new ideas to life.
To celebrate 10 years resident Studios artist and filmmaker Jenkin van Zyl will premiere Enclosure, an immersive film installation that explores a culture where technological advancement has outpaced our ability to make sense of it.
The film will be screened within a large-scale installation at Somerset House’s Lancaster Rooms from Thursday, September 24th to Sunday, November 26th.
Visitors will move through the material remains of the facility: fairground signage, holograms, inflatable cocoons, and decaying ephemera.
From Friday, October 16th to Sunday, October 18th, 3 Evenings will be presented at 25 Wapping Wall.
Artists from the Somerset House Studios community will collaborate for public experiments exploring performance and technology in a reimagining of 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering, a groundbreaking moment in the history of artists working with new technologies which took place in New York in 1966.
Framed across three different live experiments on each of the three nights, the live performances will sit within a programme of installations and activations, and include premieres of interactive installations from Ayoung Kim, Keiken, and Xin Liu with further works to be announced.
Director of Somerset House Studios, Marie McPartlin said: "Since launching in 2016, the Studios has become a home for artists pushing the boundaries of culture, a home with inclusion and innovation at its heart.
"For us, community is a form of technology, where collaboration and experimentation foster new ideas, forms and ways of working.
"At a time of profound uncertainty, artists play a vital role in imagining alternative futures and challenging the status quo.
"So, in this landmark year, we scale up the Studios’ distinctive cross -disciplinary approach to expand the possibilities of artistic imagination for audiences in London and beyond."
For tickets and details go to somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on.