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Past Events

Oscillation 

performances, workshops, and markets

24-30 June 2025

Performance Night

Victoria Kosasie explores the body as an archive through performance, film and demonstrated endurance - tracking trauma, memory and post-colonial tensions. Through repetition and ritual, her works incorporate the rhythm of loss and transformation, allowing the audience to feel history through breathing and posture.

 

"Molting" is an evolving outdoor installation work placed by artist Wang Xizi on the steps of the gallery garden. It invites the audience to experience the cycle of decay, transformation and emotional residue. He used the temporarily stored materials to reflect on the relationship between impermanence and disappearance and memory.

Party Night 

Performance:

Xinyao Li: The Land, The Body: Measure the Land with the Body and Occupy

A durational body-based action that questions land measurement, occupation, and the authority of spatial systems.  Using soil, canvas, and movement, the work dissolves rigid structures and proposes an organic, lived relation between the land and the body.

DJ Set:

Lavender Liu: Electronic Zen Realm

An open-air music experience in the garden, experience a London summer night in low-frequency resonance.

Workshop

Guqin Guqin+ Live Sound Experiment

This performance is based on the meditative resonance of the guqin and invites the audience to embark on a sensory journey that transcends time and perception. Integrating new sensor technology, it can detect your emotions at any time and visualize them with patterns to create a deeply interactive healing field. Co-created by Lavender Liu and Makar Polovinka, an experiment of traditional and improvisational sounds.

Rammed Earth Traditional Craft

Artist: Xinyao Li

The artist design practice workshop draws on the ancient Chinese rammed earth construction technique, evoking the forgotten connection between the land, the body and memory. Rammed earth originated in central China, where soil is stratified and compacted by repetitive and rhythmic force. This process naturally creates layers of color, texture and material, which are shaped by geology and climate, turning each structure into a visible geological timeline. In this participatory workshop, we invite you to embed personal items, fragments, images or items related to "land" or "home" into the handcrafted soil layer. This is not the reconstruction of the homeland, but a poetic preservation ceremony. Each participant will take home the physical fragments of this layer of memory. We invite you to join this action of recalling and shaping.

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London Culture Salon x Small Gallery

Early Spring Poetry Reading 早春诗会

27 April 2025

2:00 - 5:00 PM

本次沙龙携手伦敦北部实验艺术空间斯磨画廊(Small Gallery),邀请韩梦云、钱倩、黄安澜和杨槃槃四位诗人共赴早春之约。更多活跃在视觉艺术领域的她们,却因种种不同的因缘,悄然聚于诗神的羽翼之下。短暂共享“伦敦”地标的她们,以诗行书写如候鸟般迁徙的生命体验。

本次诗歌朗读交流活动亦为斯磨画廊当前双个展“黄安澜& 俞笛悠:木与夜孰长” 若有若无的闭幕式。黄安澜的影像诗Her Love is a Bleeding Tank 让眼睛化为剧场,重播女孩过去的一生。而俞笛悠则是一位始终沉默的诗人。她的艺术书 Collecting Dust 有着仿若尘埃轻覆的纸页,翻动之际,诗行在手指间缓慢涌出。活动当日,韩梦云的诗集《月的礼赞》(In Praise of the Moon) 也将陈列在展览现场。
 

Current exhibition

Helen Anahita Wilson: linea naturalis

(we are all bioelectrical beings)

a multi-sensory event

25 February 2024

1:00 - 3:00 PM

Bioelectricity is generated by a variety of biological processes in all living cells.
We are all bioelectrical beings.

Every single sound in linea naturalis is derived from natural bioelectricity and micro-electrical fluctuations in plants with medicinal and healing properties: petals, leaves, trunks, and branches. With 28 parts of the bioelectricity recordings converted into musical data tracks, sound artist Helen Wilson assigned an instrument to each of these parts. She then applied compositional processes of editing and development to create the unique piece of plant-derived music. Linea naturalis is 45 minutes long.

On 25 Feburary 2024, Helen Wilson's linea naturalis will animate the space of Small Gallery, where visual artist Lisa Chang Lee's solo exhibition 'Wind Dwellers' is currently on display. This site-specific exhibition includes a set of newly commissioned hand-painted bronze sculptures of birch tree leaves. Most intriguingly, Helen Wilson's music resonates with Lisa Chang Lee's 2023 remix of the audiovisual installation Serenade of the Woods, which is also derived from a set of plants. In Lisa Chang Lee's working process, the movement of different plants in breeze was captured in her video clips, transformed into music notes by the computer, and eventually played out by musicians - it was a collaboration between nature, machine, and human.

Dessert artist Xinyi Li will bring a gustatory dimension to the acoustic and visual stimuli of the event. Xinyi selected three plants featured in Helen Wilson's music - ginger, peppermint, and poppy seeds - to make madeleines and cookies specifically for this event. Each dessert she creates is a chapter of its own, blending heritage with a pinch of the unexpected.

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