Thursday 22 July 2021

Somerset House - Skate culture, Greek mythology and a summer playlist

 A photo by Robert Gifford. Two skateboarders skate down escalators at a London Underground station.

The latest in our films, playlists and commissions – content to explore in your own time

The art of skateboarding

A photo by Dog' Vivaldini of two skateboarders upside down on their boards, against a backdrop of blue lockers.

Roll into the vibrant and ever-changing world of skateboarding with this collection of stories, films and interviews in collaboration with Google Arts and Culture, in celebration of our latest exhibition No Comply: Skate Culture and Community.

A summer night with Art Night

Catch up on these new co-commissions, which premiered at Art Night 2021

A photo of OOMK in their studio. Three young women sit upon a table. Two wear headscarves and all three are looking straight faced to camera.

OOMK

Expanding on the making of OOMK’s visual newspaper STUART Papers, explore the Stuart Hall Library archive, preserving the work of artists of African and Asian descent in the UK.

A photo of Imran Perretta and Paul Purgas performing as AMRA. They are stood behind electronic sound equipment and behind them is a projection of grey-blue and light.

IMRAN PERRETTA & PAUL PURGAS

Part of their ongoing collaboration AMRA, the duo’s latest audiovisual work features Carnatic dance and vocal improvisation, examining diasporic echoes within South Asian consciousness.

A still from the filming of PHILOMÈNE PIRECKI's film The Scrying Eye. A profile view of a woman with a hood over their head looks on as bright studio lights backlight the image.

PHILOMÈNE PIRECKI

Journey into a summer ritual, an awakening of the senses through stinging nettles, bodily rhythms and incantatory vocals in Pirecki’s short film The Scrying Eye.

A still from Sonya Dyer's filming of Andromeda. A performer stands and looks just out of the camera's lens with their hands spread in opposite directions.

SONYA DYER

Reimagine the story of Andromeda – the Aethiopian princess of Greek myth – in this new work from Sonya Dyer, which draws on performance, morse code and drumming. 

Reinventing the fairground dodgem

A screenshot from the online version of Bumps per Minute. Small 8-bit animated bumper cars are placed against a background of cyan and yellow, and at the top are the words BUMPS PER MINUTE 101 in pixelated copy.

Play Bumps per Minute, composer Anna Meredith's frenetic, audio-visual composition for Dodge, our summer courtyard experience. Brought to life by the collision of bumper cars, you can now experience the work online.

Feeling the heat?

A photo of DJ Manara on the decks. They have shoulder length brown hair, are wearing sunglasses and a vibrant red top.

DODGE LATES PLAYLIST

Cool off with a summer playlist. With her mix of global club cuts, house, grime and Bollywood samples, DJ Manara is a legend on the club circuit. Listen in and catch DJ Manara and other leading names in the UK DJ scene at Dodge Lates.

A graphic for Hope in the Heat. A background of light blues and yellows is overlaid with the words 'Hope in the Heat'

HOPE IN THE HEAT

Imagine hopeful visions of a climate altered tomorrow with our Future Producers on this dedicated platform that brings together interactive work, film and poetry, all reflecting upon the environmental choices impacting society today.

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