3 Evenings

Somerset House Studios turns 10 with three nights of experiments in performance and technology. Somerset House Studios turns 10 with three nights of experiments in performance and technology at East London’s Wapping Hydraulic Power Station. A three-night event and international transmission, 3 Evenings takes Somerset House Studios’ distinctive approach to interdisciplinary experimentation beyond the Somerset House walls with three different live performance experiments each night, set within a wider programme of newly commissioned works and interactive installations. Participating artists include: Ayoung Kim, dmstfctn, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Klara Kofen & Cameron Graham, Gazelle Twin, Holly Blakey & Tai Shani, Jenkin van Zyl & Agnieszka Szczotka, Keiken, Lawrence Lek, Ligia Lewis, Louis Morlæ, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Nina Davies& Zein Majali, SERAFINE 1369, Team Rolfes and Xin Liu. 3 Evenings playfully reimagines the 1966 event 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering, widely regarded as a pivotal moment in the history of artists working with new technologies. Sixty years on from the original event, artists from the Studios community and international special guests explore what it means to perform with technology now, in the same radical spirit of experimentation. Unfolding within the spaces of a former hydraulic power station, echoing the industrial character of the original 1960s venue, this will be a three-night ticketed event offsite at Wapping Hydraulic Power Station. 3ETV, an interactive TV channel and evolving digital artwork broadcasting beyond the live event, will extend the project online, in partnership with HEK (House of Electronic Arts, Basel), M+ (Hong Kong), Onassis ONX (Athens/New York) & Pioneer Works (New York).