{"title": "Enclosure: Jenkin van Zyl in conversation with Adam Alston", "start": "2026-10-29T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Somerset House", "address": "Strand, WC2R 1LA London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://my.somersethouse.org.uk/10904/10906", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "A free evening talk at Somerset House pairing a studio artist with an author for a public conversation. Artist Jenkin van Zyl, who works in film, sculpture and performance, joins Adam Alston, a theatre scholar at Goldsmiths, University of London. They discuss the ideas and processes behind van Zyl's new film and installation Enclosure, covering how technology can advance faster than meaning, maintenance as a form of denial, and systems outliving their usefulness. The event ends with an audience Q&A.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/enclosure-jenkin-van-zyl-in-conversation-with-adam-alston-38684/", "official_url": "https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/jenkin-van-zyl-enclosure-in-conversation", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a81b213f7cabc1381e1bfa57e0a3e6799e0f693521d25e0151e49e4ce287f677-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Somerset House", "address": "Strand, WC2R 1LA London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Jenkin van Zyl: Enclosure", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "Somerset House", "address": "Strand, WC2R 1LA London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://my.somersethouse.org.uk/events?K=Enclosure&StartDate=2026-09-24", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "film"], "description": "An exhibition pairing a newly commissioned film with a large-scale immersive installation in the Lancaster Rooms of the New Wing. It is the work of Jenkin van Zyl, an artist in residence at Somerset House Studios, commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella, Somerset House Studios and HOME, Manchester. Set in a decaying facility once built for replication, where visitors could temporarily live the lives of others, it follows Mercy, a starlet whose likeness was lent to the programme, as she arrives to terminate her contract and the boundary between original and copy turns porous. The work explores a culture where technological advancement has outpaced our ability to make sense of it, asking what happens when systems built on desire and self-preservation outlast the conditions that created them. 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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"}, {"title": "George Clark and Eiko Soga", "start": "2026-09-14T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Camden Art Centre", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "George Clark is Camden Art Centre's 2026 Studio Residency Artist, presenting a residency in which he works in an on-site studio. Clark is a London-based artist, curator and writer working across film, installation and performance, focusing on moving image in the expanded field and the non-aligned histories of the global south. During the residency he collaborates for the first time with his partner, the artist Eiko Soga, exploring children's prelinguistic worlds and sonic resonances, from field recordings made in an anechoic chamber during a pregnancy to an active recording and experimental studio space. Inspired by the Maarui Children Farm in Tokyo and by the philosophies of Masanobu Fukuoka, the two look to bring children into their practices and work with natural processes and garden ingredients, stepping away from the fixed certainties of film production.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/george-clark-and-eiko-soga-50256/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/32ec879ac1df4acfdabfc668c359fb098c3218349ca1a60815115557a2796007-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Still Life", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-10T20:00:00Z", "place": "The Koppel Project", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/multidisciplinary"], "description": "\"Still Life\" is an exhibition of works by Danlu Zheng, held at the Koppel Project. The London-based multidisciplinary artist, a graduate of Central Saint Martins, shows works spanning moving image, costume, photography and material experimentation. The exhibition traces her evolving investigation into the relationships between the body, materiality and the environment, examining processes of transformation in which states of completion, stability or disappearance give way to further possibilities. Its title evokes a productive tension between stasis and change, as regeneration is considered not a return to an original form but a process through which matter acquires new configurations and meanings.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/still-life-42453/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/still-life-danlu-zheng", "image": "https://noky.io/images/34a10258b6e2a4747e11b00bd1fd7dcc9508646fd1f8ef831f9ff189749dd381-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Still Life", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Collective", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/multidisciplinary"], "description": "\"Still Life\" is an exhibition bringing together works from different stages of Danlu Zheng's practice. Across moving image, costume, photography and material experimentation, it examines relationships between the body, materiality and the environment, and processes of transformation in which states of completion, stability or disappearance give way to further possibilities. The title evokes a tension between stasis and change, considering regeneration as a process through which matter acquires new configurations and meanings. 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It is delivered by LUX in partnership with UCL's Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media MSc, as part of the programme 'Sharing Strategies: Caring for moving image in the margins', with support from the BFI Screen Heritage Fund. The day is open to archivists, conservators, artist-filmmakers and anyone interested in conserving artists' moving image, including informal and grassroots collections.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/study-day-sharing-strategies-caring-for-artist-moving-image-37115/", "official_url": "https://lux.org.uk/event/study-day-sharing-strategies-caring-for-artist-moving-image-in-the-margins/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/48a0048e1be78867b62680233f8df905a6f1d657d9150128039feab6e3a246c4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Faerdom: Now, As Ever", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-29T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration", "address": "Myddelton Passage 1, EC1R 1AG London", "price": "Adults £15, concessions available. Tickets include entry to all exhibitions. Members go free.", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://qbcentre.org.uk/ticket-hub", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture", "literature/fairy-tales"], "description": "Faerdom: Now, As Ever is a new exhibition blending UK folklore, viral memes and 3D printed sculpture. It is created by London-based duo Vince Ibay and Jessica Miller, who work together as Fromm Studio. Visitors travel through two co-existing spaces, 'Dystopia' and 'Utopia', meeting animated figures of ancient legend and myth, from Cornish piskies to a Pied Piper of Hamelin with TikTok-style dancing rats. The exhibition explores how the digital landscape is shaping our modern lives and asks whether humanity's oldest stories still resonate and can offer perspective and hope.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/faerdom-now-as-ever-38102/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5bf92ecfadc45a060caf679a9b762cc13905c9fdabbd2e925b9b9e09923bd708-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Reveries on Ruin Value and the Future of (a) Museum(s)", "start": "2026-06-19T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Sir John Soane's Museum", "address": "Lincoln's Inn Fields 13, WC2A 3BP London", "price": "Free to explore", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://collections.soane.org/ARC11740", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An online zine titled 'Reveries on Ruin Value and the Future of (a) Museum(s)', loosely modelled on pamphlets authored by Sir John Soane. It collects the research and collaborations of artist Simon Faride, who added an 'e' to his surname just as Soane did, during his 2025 Jerwood Artist Residency at the museum. The zine explores the concept of 'ruin value' (Ruinenwert), the desire to design a building to work both in its original form and later as a successful ruin, and playfully applies this notion to imagining potential museum futures. A collaborative scrapbook with contributions from museum staff, it presents the Soane Museum as a living place and pairs playful speculations with serious consideration of conservation and the long-term future of museums.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/reveries-on-ruin-value-and-the-future-of-a-museums-42031/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d7099b3bdb57a7cd793dd36681809d8553026577d7e785106eb61f8dab24b7fc-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", "tickets_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/unreal-festival-artist-talk/book/470096", "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"}]}