Assembly 2020
ASSEMBLY, Somerset House Studios’ annual experimental music series, returns for a special online edition. Five artists premiere brand new audio works across five nights on a new interactive listening platform, assembly2020.co.
Join us as we premiere new work from visual artist Zadie Xa, musician Kelman Duran, electronic producer Loraine James, musician and pop polymath Lafawndah and saxophonist and composer Ben Vince, alongside talks and workshops.
PREMIERES 23 - 27 SEP
ONLINE
FREE
WHAT'S ON
1-54 CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART FAIR
The leading art fair dedicated to the promotion of contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora returns this year, and tickets are now on sale for the public day here at Somerset House. 1-54’s talk programme 1-54 Forum also returns, engaging with creative Afro-Latin American, Caribbean and African perspectives.
SAT 10 OCT (PUBLIC DAY)
EAST & WEST WINGS
£25 - £10
ARRIVALS + DEPARTURES: YARA + DAVINA IN CONVERSATION
YARA + DAVINA, the artist duo behind our courtyard installation, join us for an online conversation expanding on the timely themes of birth and death raised in their installation.
TUE 22 SEP
ONLINE
FREE
GALLERY 31: I SHOULD BE DOING SOMETHING ELSE RIGHT NOW
Our Gallery 31 exhibition has reopened, bringing together works from Studios artists, exploring change and its transformative and violent power.
UNTIL SUN 10 JAN
GALLERY 31, NEW WING
FREE
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Content to explore in your own time
CRYPTIC RUINS BY STINE DEJA
Deja’s playful film reveals the absurdity of contemporary urban life and questions the rationality of obsessions in this film unpicking the 21st century compulsion toward physical fitness.
