Diasporas Now - 4 New Shows

Live art incubator and agency Diasporas Now have announced the next leg of their Macrocosmic Futures tour, with new specially curated performances at South London Gallery and V&A South Kensington in London, and Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, leading to their fifth anniversary celebration at radical London arts venue IKLECTIK. 

The tour asks performing artists to imagine alternative futures, outside of the Western hyper-individualist trajectory we are currently on; to find where humans meet nature, where the self meets the other. Drawing from the framework of Afrofuturism and speculative fiction, Macrocosmic Futures widens the scope to pan-diasporic, pre-colonial perspectives: a new cultural movement between diasporas, and between sound, space, and bodies. Macrocosmic Futures asks: what rituals can we co-create as future ancestors in the face of planetary transformation? 

South London Gallery 3rd June

Live artworks by musicians, artists, producers, and writers, including Omí Gabriel Delnevo, Tif Wellington, Hannan Jones, Emma Korantema. 

Fitzwilliam Museum  25 June

Responding to the current exhibition Frank Bowling: Seeking the Sublime, a vivid retrospective of the British painter's work spanning 60 years. 

V&A South Kensington 26 June, Diasporas Now-curated Friday Late

Joined by performance artists Hongxi Li, and Mahsa Salali and musical guest object blue in response to the current exhibition Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific, which showcases artists who draw inspiration from traditional rituals and ancestral beliefs, inventing new meanings of spirituality today. 

The tour will culminate on 25th July at IKLECTIK, London, for a celebratory performance marking five years of Diasporas Now. 

Further Information: Diasporas Now