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Accompanying Imogen Stidworthy’s exhibition ‘Skydde’, is ‘Radical Audio Guides’, a co-creative project presented in the Etc. Space at Matt’s Gallery, bringing together six responses to the installation given by artists Immanuel Adelowo, Saja Altamimi, Louis Caseley, James Heath, Sonny Nwachukwu and Delson Weekes.

Exhibition continues until 22 November 2026
Wednesday - Sunday, 12 - 6pm

‘Radical Audio Guides’ evolved through a series of workshops held at Matt’s Gallery with Stidworthy over 2026. Their responses are voiced through word, non-verbal utterance, gesture, mark-making, dance and music. They are shaped by different ways of being and sense-making and are presented in different forms, embracing the multitude of ways of communicating embodied by the group. Each response is offered as a guide along a unique path into the work.

‘Many people embody different forms of voicing; they may communicate through gesture or rhythm. I wanted there to be a real range of forms of voicing among the participants so that we could learn about and attune ourselves to different ways of communicating. This puts everyone in a position of both equal vulnerability and equal expertise.’

-Imogen Stidworthy, 2026

‘Radical Audio Guides’ is supported by Wandsworth Borough Council. It is a London Borough of Culture legacy project and was developed in partnership with ActionSpace and BLINK Dance Theatre. With thanks to National Lottery Players.

Images:
1- Saja Altamimi, audio work
2- Radical Audio Guides, exhibition view, (left) Saja Altamimi’s audio work, (right) Sonny Nwachukwu’s video
3- Delson Weekes, voice and dance performance
4- Sonny Nwachukwu, spoken word and video
5- Immanuel Adelowo, words with drawing, video
6- James Heath, performance with drawing, video
7- Louis Caseley, words on drawing, audio with wood pieces

Photos by Jonathan Bassett

Find out more:
@wandsworth_council @actionspace @blink.dance.theatre @immanueladelowo @saja.freelance @louiscaseley @jamesheathartist #SonnyNwachukwu #DelsonWeekes @stidworthyimogen taken in Matt's Gallery by @stidworthyimogen

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Coming next: Imogen Stidworthy, Skydde

30 Sep-22 Nov 2026
PV: Sun 27 Sep, 2-5pm
Wed-Sun, 12-6pm

Co-commissioned with Chapter, Cardiff, this newly devised installation is the second part of a two-stage project initiated in spring 2026 with 'In a thread of air'.

What is at stake in being between ‘I’ and ‘we’? The installation engages with different forms of communication with self and others through a therapeutic group practice, Primary Work, developed by Swedish practitioner Iris Johannson. Her practice is shaped by her autistic perception and lifelong sense of connection with ‘the primary’ dimension of existence, beyond conventional therapeutic or neurotypical frameworks.

As a child Johansson had no sense of inner life or social connection. ‘I am not into feelings, you are into feelings, but I have to rely on my inner sight.’ She recalls moving fluidly between physical and immaterial being, between the ‘ordinary reality’ and the ‘real reality’, where she would play with two friends – boys, who appeared as pieces of silk flowing in the air. Skydde, the title of this exhibition, is a Swedish word and also the name of one of the boys.

Accompanying the exhibition are six responses to the installation given by artists Immanuel Adelowo, Saja Altamimi, Louis Caseley, Vicki Hawkins, James Heath, Sonny Nwachukwu and Delson Weekes, developed through Radical Audio Guides, a co-creative project evolved through a series of workshops held at Matt’s Gallery with the artists over 2026. Their responses are voiced through word, non-verbal utterance, gesture, mark-making, dance and music. Each response is offered as a guide along a unique path into the work.

Radical Audio Guides is supported by Wandsworth Borough Council. It is a London Borough of Culture legacy project developed in partnership with ActionSpace and BLINK Dance Theatre. With thanks to National Lottery Players.

The exhibition is co-commissioned with Chapter, Cardiff and supported by Arts Council England, Freelands Foundation & Liverpool John Moores University.

@stidworthyimogen @wandsworth_council @chaptergallery by @stidworthyimogen

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It’s your last chance to see the works of Imogen Stidworthy: In a thread of air in our gallery.

Through installation and film, Imogen explores what it means to have a voice and what it means to listen, inviting us to engage with communication beyond words, through gesture, rhythm and atmosphere.

Visit the exhibition from Tuesday – Sunday, 12–5pm until Sunday 7 June.
🔗 Find out more via link in our bio

📷 @danweillphotography

Dyma’ch cyfle olaf i weld gwaith Imogen Stidworthy: In a thread of air

Drwy osodwaith a ffilm, mae Imogen yn archwilio beth yw ystyr bod â llais, a beth yw ystyr gwrando, gan ein gwahodd ni i edrych ar gyfathrebu y tu hwnt i eiriau, drwy ystum, rhythm ac awyrgylch.

Ar agor Mawrth-Sul, 12-5yh, tan 7 Mehefin.

🔗 Mwy o wybodaeth am yr arddangosfa drwy’r ddolen yn ein bio by @stidworthyimogen

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ALL of ME … The Erotics of Knowing, 3–7 June 2026: On Saturday 6 June 2026, Michael Curran will lead a life drawing class in which the model directs the room.

Michael Curran’s practice spans performance, drawing and poetry. He first became known in the 1990s for his transgressive performance‑to‑camera works, later shifting from film and video installations into live performance. He studied at Goldsmiths, Duncan of Jordanstone, and the Jan Van Eyck Academie, and subsequently taught at several London art schools, including Middlesex University, Camberwell, and Central Saint Martins. His practice has become increasingly centred on live, time‑based situations, incorporating spoken word, song and drawing. Michael is the founder and director of HOVEl, an experimental art space run from his home in South London.

The Erotics of Knowing is an intensive programme of workshops, lectures and conversations, eating together, screenings, open rehearsals and performances running over five days. It frames knowledge as an embodied and relational process and asks how we can recover the erotic as a critical framework that roots language and thought in sensation and affect. For full programme and how join visit field-studies.org (link in bio). Full course programme £100. Day tickets for £25. Lunch included on any calendar day.

Curated by Dasha Anosova @dashxyz_ , Imogen Stidworthy @stidworthyimogen and Joseph Kohlmaier. With Rachal Bradley + Lin Chiwei @linchiweiphotostock + Adam Christensen @madamdedangelaim + Michael Curran + Ania Dabrowska @aniadabrowska + Moyra Davey + Fiona Fane-James + Keira Fox @keirajfox + Marianne Greber @mariannegreber1 + Lucy Gunning @lucyclairegunning + MUON @milesluko and @that_travis + Trevor Norris + Bianca Pina @bianca___pina + Marek Poliks @dis.integrator + Amber Priestley @amber_priestley + Carolyn Roy @carolynroyplatform + Claudia Sarnthein @sarntheinclaudia + Teta Tsybulnyk + more

Field Studies and The Erotics of Knowing is generously hosted by @raleighchapel. ♥️ by @stidworthyimogen

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THE EROTICS OF KNOWING
3–7 June 2026
Field Studies residency no.2 is at Raleigh Chapel, London N16

To find out how to join, see programme details and buy tickets, visit:
field-studies.org.

The Erotics of Knowing is an intensive programme of workshops, lectures and conversations, eating together, screenings, open rehearsals and performances running over five days. It frames knowledge as an embodied and relational process and asks how we can recover the erotic as a critical framework that roots language and thought in sensation and affect.

Field Studies creates an open, polyphonous space that changes with every new arrival, and every time a new biography is added to the collective. Participating artists' and practitioners' work travels across an evolving territory of happenings in time, from social dreaming to choral and choreographic work, live drawing as performance, body sequencing, the space of theory, text and poetry, Trauma Release Exercises and more.

Line-up of contributors as of 14 May: Rachal Bradley + Lin Chiwei + Adam Christensen + Michael Curran + Ania Dabrowska + Moyra Davey + Fiona Fane-James + Keira Fox + Marianne Greber + Lucy Gunning + MUON + Trevor Norris + Bianca Pina + Marek Poliks + Amber Priestley + Carolyn Roy + Claudia Sarnthein + Imogen Stidworthy + Teta Tsybulnyk + more

Programme curators Dasha Asonova, Imogen Stidworthy, and Joseph Kohlmaier
Programme coordinators Celia Bickersteth and Indigo Levson Gower

Food by Gwen Boswel
Front of house Chloé Monti

Thank you to Raleigh Chapel for hosting The Erotics of Knowing

Reel: STIDWORTHY_FS-Erotics-of-Knowing_REEL: Imogen Stidworthy, To (1996) [Imogen will screen recent work and be in conversation with Fione Fane-James Saturday afternoon] by @stidworthyimogen

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The Erotics of Knowing, 3–7 June 2026: On Saturday 6 June 2026 Imogen Stidworthy will be in conversation with embodied health practitioner Fiona Fane-James to explore fundamental, liminal questions in Stidworthy's work. The conversation follows a screening of ‘In a Thread of Air’ (2026), one of the centre-pieces of Stidworthy’s recent show at Chapter Gallery.

‘For over thirty years Stidworthy’s practice has engaged with different forms of voicing, reflecting on what it means to have a voice and what it means to listen. Her works develop through spending time with people who embody different ways of being. In the sonorous, spatialised forms of her installations and films, difference is embodied in multiple registers of communication. These works invite us to dwell in spaces between languages and attune to unfamiliar forms of of voicing with others and in ourselves.’

Video excerpt: Imogen Stidworthy, ‘To’ (1996)

The Erotics of Knowing is an intensive programme of workshops, lectures and conversations, eating together, screenings, open rehearsals and performances running over five days. It frames knowledge as an embodied and relational process and asks how we can recover the erotic as a critical framework that roots language and thought in sensation and affect.

With Rachal Bradley @rachalbradley + Lin Chiwei @linchiweiphotostock + Adam Christensen @madamdedangelaim + Michael Curran + Ania Dabrowska @aniadabrowska + Moyra Davey + Fiona Fane-James + Keira Fox @keirajfox + Marianne Greber @mariannegreber1 + Lucy Gunning @lucyclairegunning + MUON @milesluko and @that_travis + Trevor Norris + Bianca Pina @bianca___pina + Marek Poliks @dis.integrator + Amber Priestley @amber_priestley + Carolyn Roy @carolynroyplatform + Claudia Sarnthein @sarntheinclaudia + Imogen Stidworthy @stidworthyimogen + Teta Tsybulnyk + more

To find out more about how to join visit field-studies.org (link in bio). Thank you to @raleighchapel for hosting The Erotics of Knowing. by @stidworthyimogen

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The Erotics of Knowing, 3–7 June 2026: On Thursday 4 June, we will be screening Moyra Davey’s Four [чотири] (2025) followed by a conversation between Moyra (from NY) and Field Studies co-curator Dasha Asonova @dashxyz_, at the end of a day that opens with a social dreaming session with Teta Teta Tsybulnyk and ends with Keira Foxes Contrivances of Hell …

The Erotics of Knowing is Field Studies’s second residency at @raleighchapel, London N16. An intensive programme of workshops, lectures and conversations, eating together, screenings, open rehearsals and performances running over five days, The Erotics of Knowing frames knowledge as an embodied and relational process and asks how we can recover the erotic as a critical framework that roots language and thought in sensation and affect.

Field Studies creates an open, polyphonous space that changes with every new arrival, and every time a new biography is added to the collective. To find out more about how to join, learn more about the current line-up of events, participating artists and practitioners, and how their work travels across an evolving territory of happenings in time – from social dreaming to choral and choreographic work, live drawing as performance, body sequencing, the space of theory, text and poetry, Trauma Release Exercises and more – visit field-studies.org.

Line-up of contributors as of 18 May: Rachal Bradley @rachalbradley + Lin Chiwei @linchiweiphotostock + Adam Christensen @madamdedangelaim + Michael Curran + Ania Dabrowska @aniadabrowska + Moyra Davey + Fiona Fane-James + Keira Fox @keirajfox + Marianne Greber @mariannegreber1 + Lucy Gunning @lucyclairegunning + MUON @milesluko and @that_travis + Trevor Norris + Bianca Pina @bianca___pina + Marek Poliks @dis.integrator + Amber Priestley @amber_priestley + Carolyn Roy @carolynroyplatform + Claudia Sarnthein @sarntheinclaudia + Imogen Stidworthy @stidworthyimogen + Teta Tsybulnyk + more

Thank you to @raleighchapel for hosting The Erotics of Knowing. Info on how to join the programme on field-studies.org, link in bio. by @stidworthyimogen

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5 months ago

“I hope that the artwork [...] brings new light on the ways that we respond to others: how empathy, identification and so on play out.”

Imogen Stidworthy’s In a thread of air exhibited as part of our gallery exhibition In a thread of air.

Chapter Gallery is open Tuesday-Sunday 12–5pm.

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Imogen Stidworthy: In a thread of air esy’n cael ei arddangos fel rhan o In a thread of air.

Mae Oriel Chapter ar agor ddydd Mawrth - dydd Sul 12-5yh. by @stidworthyimogen

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Join us for an experimental, improvised dance piece as @HijinxTheatre artists respond to @StidworthyImogen’s film Balayer – A Map of Sweeping.

📽️ Balayer will be screened before and after the performance.

📅 Wednesday 20 May, 3.30pm
🎟 Free

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Ymunwch â ni am ddarn dawns arbrofol a byrfyfyr wrth i artistiaid Academi Hijinx ymateb i ffilm Imogen Stidworthy, Balayer – A Map of Sweeping.

📽️Caiff Balayer ei sgrinio cyn ac ar ôl y perfformiad.

📅 Dydd Mercher 20 Mai, 3.30yh
🎟 Am ddim by @stidworthyimogen

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“There is a relationship for me and those materials between the fragility of language, the fragility of bodies, and also the fragility of the ecological system.”

Imogen Stidworthy: STILL LIFE BABEL exhibited as part of In a thread of air.

Chapter Gallery is open Tuesday-Sunday 12–5pm.

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Imogen Stidworthy: STILL LIFE BABEL esy’n cael ei arddangos fel rhan o In a thread of air.

Mae Oriel Chapter ar agor ddydd Mawrth - dydd Sul 12-5yh. by @stidworthyimogen

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6 months ago

“I’m hoping to open up a space where, as a visitor, you are put in this relationship between the view from the inside and the view from the outside.”

Hear Imogen talk about Balayer: A Map of Sweeping, exhibited as part of In a thread of air.
Chapter Gallery is open Tuesday – Sunday, 12–5pm.

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Gwrandewch ar Imogen yn siarad am y syniadau tu ôl i Balayer: A Map of Sweeping, sy’n cael ei arddangos fel rhan o In a thread of air.

Mae Oriel Chapter ar agor ddydd Mawrth – Sul, 12–5pm. by @stidworthyimogen

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In conversation with Imogen Stidworthy ☁️

In a thread of air continues until 7 June.
Chapter Gallery is open Tuesday – Sunday, 12–5pm.

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Yn sgwrsio ag Imogen Stidworthy ☁️

In a thread of air yn parhau tan 7 Mehefin.
Mae Oriel Chapter ar agor dydd Mawrth – Sul, 12–5pm. taken in Chapter by @stidworthyimogen

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