{"title": "Digital Worlds, Alternative Futures: Kinnari Saraiya, Wendi Yan and Skawennati", "start": "2026-11-14T15:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "arebyte Digital Art Centre", "address": "25-27 Camden Road, London, England, NW1 9LN, United Kingdom", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/media-art/digital-art"], "description": "An afternoon of performances and artist talks titled Digital Worlds, Alternative Futures, taking place at arebyte Digital Art Centre as part of the exhibition SLIPSTREAM: Uncharted Realities & the Eternal Now. It features London-based interdisciplinary artist and dancer Kinnari Saraiya discussing her interactive installation In the Eye of a Dream, artist Wendi Yan presenting her film Dream of Walnut Palaces, and internationally exhibiting artist Skawennati performing with a destination she co-created in the virtual world Second Life. The event explores how digital tools can help reimagine cultural heritage, identity and alternative futures, and is hosted by Pita Arreola, arebyte's Head of Programmes and curator of the exhibition.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/digital-worlds-alternative-futures-kinnari-saraiya-wendi-yan-34770/", "official_url": "https://www.arebyte.com/events/artist-talks-performance-slipstream", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-14T15:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "arebyte Digital Art Centre", "address": "25-27 Camden Road, London, England, NW1 9LN, United Kingdom", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Rain Dancing Impossible Worlds, an interactive exhibition curated by A-Gen-C", "start": "2026-09-24T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T18:00:00Z", "place": "Arbeit Studio", "address": "Green Lanes 310, N13 5TT", "price": "Free to attend", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["literature/comics/graphic-novels", "art/contemporary", "games/video-games"], "description": "Rain Dancing Impossible Worlds is an interactive exhibition of games, visual novels, interactive graphic novels and ceramic controllers, opening with an RSVP-only launch event and running until 21 November. It is curated by A-Gen-C, a new publishing house that commissions, publishes, archives and circulates visual novels, playable cinema, interactive literature and non-traditional animation. Centred on the idea of Impossible Objects, forms that challenge the boundaries of representation, materiality and world-building, the showcase presents interactive graphic novels by Anna Bunting-Branch, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Kinnari Saraiya, with bespoke ceramic controllers by Aliyah Hussain. Drawing on Sylvia Wynter's Being Human as Praxis, the works imagine objects and worlds that exceed physical limits, locating pasts, futures and imagined worlds in embodied present experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rain-dancing-impossible-worlds-an-interactive-exhibition-cur-87574/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d56ff7caf3f579cdfddc7f0d71e6d47d7a7ead0e7d8a31f595f3c8eb24e30eef-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Second Daughter: She Was Never One Body pt II", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Eastway Baths", "address": "80 Eastway, E9 5JH London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/film-video", "film/short-film"], "description": "An art exhibition with a short film screening, presented by Second Daughter at Eastway Baths. The works and films explore the body as a collective swarm, with pieces by Karolina Ursala Urbaniak, Keyannah Isaacs, Lottie Stephens, Holly Lou Jones, Eleanor Cox, Georgia Scholes and Kai Thaís, and films including Cailleach, Uproot, Dancing with Broken Feet, Choir of Catharsis and Know That As I Hex You, I Hug You. Film curation is by Lucy Chappell and artwork curation by Holly Lou Jones and Noda Lichen. Second Daughter celebrates dark cinema, art and performance exploring women's stories, made by anyone.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/second-daughter-she-was-never-one-body-pt-ii-60442/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b729ec8bc12fc075cd3fe063f334b03ee0f2cdcd811785077d4da46481f84c6c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Transnational Resistances", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Tate Modern", "address": "Bankside, SE1 9TG London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/activism"], "description": "Transnational Resistances is a two-day symposium at Tate Modern rooted in artistic practices of transnational resistance and solidarity. It is organised by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational in partnership with Hyundai Motor, in collaboration with IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, and supported by the Irish and UK Governments. Artists and academics explore support networks, feminist methodologies, memory work, counter-archiving and embodied knowledge across communities resisting erasure. The Friday programme includes workshops, talks, a communal meal, an audiovisual intervention and a keynote in Starr Cinema and Clore Foyer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/transnational-resistances-87905/", "official_url": "https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/transnational-resistances", "image": "https://noky.io/images/95b14b0c428d32be58e657aa555606139f1b05612c7b1a26c2f664211fdb1632-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Artist Talk: UNREAL", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £8), plus a £2 transaction fee per order", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "An artist talk lasting about an hour, held in the Members Bar at Battersea Arts Centre, a venue in south-west London. It brings together two trailblazing performance artists, Marisa Carnesky and Jo Bannon, who discuss their respective practices and how each has explored magic within them. With questions from UNREAL curators Tom Cassani and Augusto Corrieri, the conversation touches on covert choreographies, hidden bodies, high rituals and Show Women. It forms a thoughtful discussion on performance and magic, part of the UNREAL festival at the venue.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/artist-talk-unreal-73831/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/unreal-artist-talk/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2b5e34a120ffcb115493eccc6c5fea4d04b7a0444b090964cc571f63f6be889e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Women artists in conflict zones: imagination as an act of resistance", "start": "2026-10-26T10:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-04T17:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/women"], "description": "An exhibition of works by eight women artists from countries including Myanmar, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Venezuela, shown in the Atrium Gallery of the London School of Economics and Political Science. It is hosted by the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security and Artists Project Earth, a UK charity that turns artists' creative contributions into support for relief projects, and is curated by May East, a Trustee of the charity. The collection, commissioned since 2022, explores imagination as an act of resistance, turning from the battlefield to the intimate realities of civilian life, from domestic survival to memories of displacement and conflict's marks on bodies and relationships. Among the artists shown are Rala Tarabishi, Khin Thethtar Latt, Sarah Ndele and Dania Bucko, who together give form to experiences rarely captured in peace agreements and reconstruction plans.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/women-artists-in-conflict-zones-imagination-as-an-act-of-res-37076/", "official_url": "https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/arts-and-music/exhibitions/exhibitions/women-artists-in-conflict-zones", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fc5dd39f3fc7133392ff786f9042c38d405599885f700825d4a0abb4e22dcbca-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Conch", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T20:30:00Z", "place": "South London Gallery", "address": "Peckham Road 65-67, SE5 8UH London", "price": "£10/£5 members & concessions", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "The Conch is an event where artists share new work that is still in development, with the audience invited to respond after each presentation by sharing thoughts, questions and reflections. This edition brings together artists who explore domestic architectures not simply as backdrops, but as sites of labour and performance that can take on a life of their own. Georgina Hill performs a work on the overlooked history of cottage industries in Britain, Alia Hamaoui reworks behind-the-scenes footage from the whodunit crime film 8 Femmes, and Beatrice Vorster presents BOO!, a performance made with Yasmin Vardi that deconstructs the ghost-movie genre. The event takes place at South London Gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-conch-38708/", "official_url": "https://www.southlondongallery.org/events/the-conch-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3cf5e3fce0bb7a0ab456dc088eb17a976b430c7f2da4442b2f458c2d9e29f574-2000.webp"}]}