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Our Performance Programme offers an unparalleled opportunity for members of the public to freely experience site-specific performance artworks by some of the most exciting artists working today, and is integral to LGW’s mission of expanding the visibility of London's galleries and their artists.
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Touch Song by Adelaide Cioni
Friday 31 May, 2pm & 5pm
Location: St James's Church Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL (nearest station: Piccadilly Circus, Green Park)
Touch Song is a performance about relationships, curiosity, and desire. Cioni says, "most of all it is about the awkwardness of being bodies in the world, having to do with other bodies that carry themselves around the same planet, sometimes the same room". Cioni's performance will be contextualised by a show at The Approach gallery titled True Form. The music is an original score by Dom Bouffard. The choreography is by dancers Evelyn Hart and Hobie Schouppe. Concept, direction and costumes are by Adelaide Cioni.
Performance & talk will last approx. 30 minutes
Transport: Short walk from either Green Park (Jubilee, Piccadilly and Victoria Line) or Piccadilly Circus (Piccadilly and Bakerloo Line).
In the land of troubadours (Aşıklar Diyarı) by Nil Yalter and Övül Ö. Durmusoglu
Sunday 2 June 2024, 3pm - 4.30pm
Location: Halkevi - Turkish and Kurdish Community Centre, 31 - 33 Dalston Lane, Hackney, London E8 3DF
Yalter's work references the Anatolian people's wisdom and knowledge through popular folk poetry and troubadour - or asik - music, as a source of resistance and hope. To facilitate her performance the artist will bring together multigenerational collaborators from Turkish and Kurdish speaking communities in London. Developed with curator Övül Ö. Durmusoglu, this will be Yalter's first performance in London. A mini retrospective of Nil Yalter's oeuvre, featuring new work, titled The Story Behind Each Word Must Be Told will be on view at Ab-Anbar gallery. The gathering will include presentation from: Ali Yıldız, Gülseven Medar, Zöhre Ülger, Dursun Can, Seda Ates/Oylum Yilmaz, and Canan Batur.
Performance & talk will last approx. 90 minutes
Transport: Short walk from Dalston Junction overground station. Bus: 56, 242, 277
The Performance Programme is curated and produced by UP Projects in partnership with London Gallery Weekend. The 2024 Performance Programme is delivered with advisory input from independent curator Rose Lejeune.
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About UP PROJECTS
UP Projects is the UK’s leading public art organisation specialising in socially engaged public art commissioning. We bring world-class artists out of the gallery and into public spaces to create new work with communities across the UK and beyond. Our work is always responsive to context often activating unexpected corners of...
