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Block Universe also worked with @egle_budvytyte in 2020, bringing Incantation Karaoke to @quozartsfest @alserkalavenue Dubai.

Springing from ecofeminist ideas and finding its power in song, the performance channels multiple beings bruised by modernity: plants and animals, bacteria and fungi shaped through rhyme, rhythm, repetition, and vulnerable presence. An invitation to the audience to collectivity and singing.

Performed at Concrete, the OMA-designed building at Alserkal Avenue. Originally commissioned by Kiasma Theater @kiasmatheatre Helsinki.

Eglė now brings animism sings anarchy to the Lithuanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, curated by Block Universe Founding Director @louise_okelly. Opening 9 May.

#BlockUniverse #VeniceBiennale #LithuanianPavilion #AlserkalAvenue #QuozArtsFest by @blockuniverse

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Block Universe Alumni

With @egle_budvytyte bringing a new work to the Lithuanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, we look back at our 2017 collaboration: Choreography for the Running Male.

A group of men jog a route through the city in unison, performing choreographed gestures that move between shame and seduction, vulnerability and militaristic action. The work asks what happens when socialised behaviour is made visible and when gendered bodies begin to act beyond expectation.

Eglė now presents animism sings anarchy at the Lithuanian Pavilion, curated by Block Universe Founding Director @louise_okelly . Opening 9 May.

📷 Arron Leppard
Made possible with the support of the Lithuanian Culture Institute, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Gaia Art Foundation.

#BlockUniverse #BlockUniverseAlumni #VeniceBiennale #lithuanianpavilion by @blockuniverse

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Block Universe is proud to see three artists with a long history with our festival showing at the 61st International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia ( @labiennale ).

@_gery_georgieva — Bulgarian Pavilion, with The Federation of Minor Practices (@bulgarianpavilion.arte)

@himalisinghsoin & @davidsointappeser (Hylozoic/Desires) — main exhibition, curated by Koyo Kouoh

@egle_budvytyte with curator and Block Universe Founding Director @louise_okelly — Lithuanian Pavilion

#VeniceBiennale #BiennaleArte2026 #BlockUniverse #BulgarianPavilion #lithuanianpavilion by @blockuniverse

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📣✨Official announcement!✨ I am honoured to be curating the Lithuanian Pavilion for 2026 — For the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (@labiennale ) in 2026, Eglė Budvytytė (@egle_budvytyte ) will represent Lithuania, exhibiting a new multi-channel film and installation. The project has been commissioned by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art. The Commissioner is Lolita Jablonskienė, Director of the National Gallery of Art (@nacionalinedailesgalerija ), a subdivision of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art. It is being curated by Louise O’Kelly (@louise_okelly ). The pavilion architecture will be designed by Kārlis Bērziņš of ĒTER, who co-curated and co-designed the Baltic pavilion at the Venice Biennale Architettura 2016, a joint exhibition by Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Commissioner: Lolita Jablonskienė Curator: Louise O’Kelly Exhibitor: Eglė Budvytytė The artwork is produced in collaboration with KANAL-Centre Pompidou– in Brussels (@kanal.centrepompidou ), where it will be presented in a new form in 2027. For media enquiries: Studio Nicola Jeffs (@studionicolajeffs ) Presented by the Lithuanian Council for Culture (@kulturostaryba ) Publication partner Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art (@vleeshal ) Media partners: Lithuanian National Radio and Television (@lrt.lt )JCDecaux Lithuania (@jcdecaux_lt) 📸 Eglė Budvydytė. Photo: Alexandre Guirkinger Still from the film Warmblooded and Earthbound, 2024 #LNDM #LithuanianNationalMuseumofArt #nacionalinisdailėsmuziejus by @blockuniverse

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If you didn't receive the last edition of You've Got Mail! in your mailbox, check out artist Daria Blum's contribution via the link in our bio.

This month, Daria Blum (@dariabl) shares with us her reflections and ruminations on remakes and originals, software instruments and hardware gear, fake feelings and authentic emotion.

Daria Blum is a London-based Swiss Canadian visual artist, performer and musician. She interweaves personal history with common experiences, choreographing voice, music, live performance and moving image in order to examine contemporary value systems, focussing on archetypal emotions and the politics surrounding their expression and reception in contemporary culture and media. Both her studio and her flat are undergoing renovations, and she is currently covered in white dust.

You've Got Mail! is a monthly newsletter that offers a platform to artists, thinkers, curators and practitioners active in the field of performance to share their current research, thoughts and practice through text, written words, moving images and images.

📨 If you don't want to miss out, please subscribe via the link in bio to receive monthly new works sent by artists directly into your mailbox.

#BlockUniverse #PerformanceArt #YOUVEGOTMAIL! #Performance #Art #ContemporaryArt #Artedition #newsletter #dariablum taken in London, United Kingdom by @blockuniverse

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Throw back to @senabasoz 's performance 'Slalom' at the @wellcomecollection last May.

Slalom was possible thanks to the generous support of the @delfinafdn , @sahadernegi and the Wellcome Collection.

It was a real pleasure to see this work finally come to life!

#blockuniverse #WellcomeCollection #DelfinaFoundation #SAHA #SenaBasoz #Slalom #healing #climatechange #london #performanceart #contemporaryart #artlondon taken in Wellcome Collection by @blockuniverse

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Last few tickets available for Slalom, a new performance by Sena Başöz (@senabasoz), premiering tomorrow night at the Wellcome Collection (@wellcomecollection)!

Block Universe presents Slalom by Sena Başöz

BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW VIA THE LINK IN BIO!

Thursday 26th May, 7pm //SOLD OUT!//
Friday 27th May, 1pm
Saturday 28th May, 3pm and 4pm

The performance will take place in the Reading Room.
Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BE.

Come and watch performers metaphorically slalom towards a future affected by climate change, as artist Sena Başöz investigates how reconsidering the past can be a healing act. Slalom uses movement, sound and Wellcome’s Collection to explore the role of archives in practising ‘care’ and regenerating the future.

UK premiere, commissioned by Block Universe in partnership with Delfina Foundation (@delfinafdn) and SAHA Association (@sahadernegi).

Accessibility:
There will be a printed script available for each performance.
The performance on Friday 27 at 1pm and Saturday 28 May at 3pm will be relaxed events.

Concept and Direction: Sena Başöz
Choreography: Sena Başöz, Sedef Gökçe (@sedefgokcedance), Canan Yücel Pekiçten (@cypekicten)
Performance and Dance artists: Sena Başöz, Sedef Gökçe, Canan Yücel Pekiçten
Original soundtrack: Semih Firincioğlu (@semihfirincioglu)

@Nazlı Meriç Çukurova

#blockuniverse #WellcomeCollection #DelfinaFoundation #SAHA #SenaBasoz #Slalom #healing #climatechange #london #performanceart #contemporaryart #artlondon taken in Wellcome Collection by @blockuniverse

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“I am back at Delfina Foundation after two years of delay due to the pandemic to realize Slalom. When I arrived at the beginning of May, I first felt like the city had changed but later on understood that it was me who had changed. The piece was initially inspired by the fact that the world as we know it is coming to an end due to the climate crisis, asking questions on how to take care of and put into use the accumulated knowledge kept in archives in a short amount of time. The conditions of the pandemic brought our lives to a stand still. We could not predict the future. Revisiting Slalom with that actual experience has widened my perspective. I feel I am more in my body and more open.”

Words from the artist Sena Başöz (@senabasoz)

Join us to see her performance ‘Slalom’ at the Wellcome Collection (@wellcomecollection) on:
🗓Thurs 26 May at 19.00 - SOLD OUT!
🗓Fri 27 May at 13.00
🗓Sat 28 May at 15.00 & 16.00

Click on the link in BIO to book your ticket!

📍 Reading Room (Level 2), Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London

📝 Access information can be found via the event page on Wellcome Collection's website

🙏 UK premiere, commissioned by Block Universe in partnership with Delfina Foundation (@delfinafdn) and SAHA Association (@sahadernegi).

📷 Credit Block Universe

Image description: The first image is a photograph taken during the talk organised by Block Universe and Delfina Foundation. We can see the artist Başöz and Dr Davina Quinlivan sitting and talking.

#BlockUniverse #BlockUniverse2022 #PerformanceArt #Performance #Art #ContemporaryArt #Slalom #SenaBaşöz #DelfinaFoundation #WellcomeCollection #TurkishArtist #Healing #Trauma #SAHA #ArtistTalk taken in Delfina Foundation by @blockuniverse

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If you didn't receive the last edition of You've Got Mail! in your mailbox, check out artist Brad Darkson's contribution via the link in our bio.

This month, the artist Brad Darkson shares with us a series of drawings and collages that summarise some of his interests and current research, that include hostile architecture, bureaucracy, seaweed, and the 'neo-capitalist hellhole we're all forced to exist within' (in his own words). Darkson's practice is regularly focused on site specific works, and connections between contemporary and traditional cultural practice, language and lore. Conceptually Darkson's work is often informed by his First Nations and Anglo Australian heritage.

You've Got Mail! is a monthly newsletter that offers a platform to artists, thinkers, curators and practitioners active in the field of performance to share their current research, thoughts and practice through text, written words, moving images and images.

📨 If you don't want to miss out, please subscribe via the link in bio to receive monthly new works sent by artists directly into your mailbox.

#BlockUniverse #PerformanceArt #YOUVEGOTMAIL! #Performance #Art #ContemporaryArt #Artedition #newsletter #braddarkson taken in Australia by @blockuniverse

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If you didn’t receive the seventh edition of You’ve Got Mail! in your mailbox, check out artist Ammar Al Attar (@ammaralattar_new )’s contribution on our website via the 🔗 link in our bio.

Ammar Al Attar shares with us a selection of sketches from his notebook planning and documenting performances enacted over the past two years in the UAE, where he is based. Inspired by early durational performance art, Al Attar pushes the limits of his body’s capacity to enact seemingly repetitive, banal tasks. Via these acts of repetition, Al Attar makes a critique of the worker’s experience by examining the mundane tools and tasks that are emblematic of a bureaucratic existence.

You've Got Mail! Is a monthly newsletter that offers a platform to artists, thinkers, curators and practitioners active in the field of performance to share their current research, thoughts and practice through text, written word, moving image and images.

✉️ If you don’t want to miss out, please subscribe via the link in bio to receive monthly new works sent by artists directly into your mailbox!

Image description: The image we see is a taken from one of Ammar’s sketches. It shows two photos, one of him wrapping a very long yellow cloth around a tree and the other you see the cloth surrounding ther tree trunks in a desert landscape. Surrounding the image are Ammar's notes written in Arabic.

#BlockUniverse #YouveGotMail! #PerformanceArt #Performance #Video #Art #ContemporaryArt #ArtEdition #Newsletter #AmmarAlAttar by @blockuniverse

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