Le Hei Di, The Opposite of Red is Black, 2018, performance documentation. Courtesy: the artist and UP Projects
This year, London Gallery Weekend has again teamed up with public art commissioning agency UP Projects for a performance programme in three different London locations: St James’s Church Piccadilly, Peckham Library Square and Hoxton Square. Three artists will present work across the weekend: Nicole Bachmann is performing not a centre, but a mesh (2023), a spoken-word piece exploring connections between oral culture, community and knowledge-transfer in the face of socio-political injustices and climate collapse; Li Hei Di, accompanied by three fellow performers, will traverse layers of rice paper and squirt pigments through hats made from funnels with multiple tubes (The Willow Tree, 2023); and Minh Lan Tran will collaborate with choreographer Lena Hetzel on Heat Generation (prayer) (2023), navigating connections between dance and violence. In addition, Peckham Platform has developed a one-off Saturday performance, Body Arcana (Homebuilding) (2023), with artist Lesley Asare and communities in Southwark.
