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hello everyone ! it’s that time again ! 🐚 it’s my OFFICIAL launch for my baby ‘the world’s darling’. yes the other one was a pre-launch but now it’s OFFICIAL baby. it’s all OFFICIAL. ready to re-up with total babes @parkinsbrown and rachel long! at @___presenttense, which is super exciting! 🌔 there will be poetry and drinks (non alc and alc) so if you missed the last one, deffo come to this! it’s gonna be mad lushand very OFFICIAL. limited low income tickets. 💸 my last london launch so if you want a book and want it signed and want a snog then bag a ticket! if you wanna come on down, come on down! 🫧 link in bio ! 🌟
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Now imagine you’re at a poem share and I ask you to read a poem that reveals all the ways you’re a CREEP… Essentially you are Nosferatu telling Ellen Hutter she has precisely three days… Good news is you have until Wednesday to prepare! Bring your creepy poems pls! (Fourth slide 2 poets that made me a she-creep, werecreep creep-creep) Get your tickets on @___presenttense website
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Benibana dyeing workshop by Saki Kono & Wako Ishiguro Sunday, 1 November 2026 11:00-13:00 Present Tense | Ferntower Road, Newington Green, London, N5 2JG @___presenttense 🌷Book via the link in profile £50 - Inspired by our exhibition “Correspondence”, we’ll extract two distinct colours from the benibana(safflower) to create a handkerchief! The benibana dyeing is special, The only flower traditionally used for Natural dyeing in Japan, treasured for centuries. A colour that feels like light itself, you may be surprised by just how beautiful plant dyes can be. We hope you’ll join us! Saki Kono: b.Kyoto, Japan. After graduating from the natural dyeing and weaving school of Living National Treasure Fukumi Shimura, she studied under dyer Hiro Shimura. Moved by colour and the power of handcraft, she now leads workshops recreating crafting alluring rouge from safflower with ancient Japanese techniques. 〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜 🌷要予約：プロフィールリンクより £50 - 古来からの日本の草木染めでは唯一、 花びらで染める「紅花」の染色ワークショップを行います！ “ Correnspondence / 往復書簡 “に寄せて、 紅花から異なる二つの色を取り出してハンカチをつくります。 古来より人々を魅了してきた、まるで光を内包しているような紅花の色。 そのひみつを、一緒に辿ってみましょう。 みなさまのお越しをお待ちしております！✻ Saki Kono： 京都生まれ。人間国宝でもある染織家・志村ふくみ主宰の染織学校を卒業後、染師・志村宏に師事。植物のいのちから色をいただくという営みと手仕事をめぐる場の豊かさに感銘をうけ、現在は、江戸時代に盛んであった紅花による口紅づくりの再現と、そのワークショップを主宰。
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Footage from PTZ 2: Crush with MOMOSTAR. Performance and reading from earlier this year at @referencepoint180 The zine release included readings from the zine, the crushing machine-poem by @ned_prizeman and a refraction of MOMOSTAR in the shape of a five-person performance, Los Anhelos. Directed by Maite de Orbe @maitedeorbe Our next issue, PTZ 3: Almost Nothing, co-edited by Bianca Pina and Hugo Abraham, launches in Paris next Friday, 23 October, with readings and performances. Come join us. Performers in Los Angelos: Virginia Lopez Valera @molar.28 María Abad @averybadmaria Jackie Lipman @jaka_bby Yasemin Junqueira @yasfantastic Jayda Dawkins @jayda_ang Sound by Lolo & Sosaku @loloysosaku and Vivienne Griffin @vivienne.griffin 🎥 @bianca___pina
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It’s not so easy to describe what transpired within (and beyond) the three sessions we shared with Agat Sharma last week. It started with Heartbreak, and this endured through to the end. Some people came to one session, and I’m sure they walked away gaining something, those who came to all three might feel (as I do) somewhat digested by them, and ultimately having to offer something back. To say Agat’s practice is one thing or another would be too reductive, but I learned this week about the staging of one’s own existence in space, about the edges of what is real and false blurring and interchanging. And something about handing oneself over to relationality that I’m still working out. I would love to hear what you learned from this time (if you were there), or if you witnesses the “non” performance that took place last Friday evening. Thank you to Agat @athisownpace for this time you shared with us. Thank you @field_studies_org for the stage and lighting and thank you to all those were present. - Bianca
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On an afternoon in June, a year ago, Eimi came over to give me a sake set she had made. We sat in my garden drinking tea and talking about ceramics, and discovered that we shared a feeling about the importance of having meaningful, intimate and personal relationships with the objects we use. How we care for objects and let them care for us in return, and how we think and learn through touch. That was when the idea for this collection started. We wanted to make ceramics inspired by natural forms that still felt playful. The pieces are made from porcelain, it’s delicacy and lightness allow us to see the colours of the tea. Their shapes take inspiration from Japanese shiboridashi teapots. We wanted to work with soft, natural colours, choosing a celadon glaze with a glossy finish, and a matte, speckled pink that looks like a blush or a trace of lipstick on a cup. The pink emerged through Eimi’s experimentation with layering two glazes. A reminder that the materials are active, they have agency—the unpredictability of firing is part of the beauty. The handles began with Eimi’s interest in bones, anatomy and organic debris. Recalling small joints, they offer places to nestle your fingers as you pour. We also wanted to leave deliberate fingerprint marks in the glaze: traces of the body that made the object, an acknowledgement of sculpture as a bodily imprint. Tea is an experience of touch as much as taste, of warmth and contact. The teacups come in several forms, all small and designed for tasting tea through multiple infusions. In gongfu-style brewing, the leaves are steeped repeatedly, often for short periods, allowing the flavour and aroma to change from one brew to the next. The different cup shapes invite you to mix and match, making each set a little different. Alongside the teaware, we have made a limited collection of teapets: little creatures to sit with us while we drink, receiving the first brew as a small blessing. We wanted to make things that inspire a desire to care for them...made to be loved. 18th October, Present Tense Space, RSVP in bio Available online after subject to stock :) photos @jude.jansen diagrams @food.relics Tea menu curated by Mi
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Excited to announce an exhibition alongside the launch of the art book, Garden, Today, at @___presenttense !! 　　 In this new work, Together with Kyoto-based dyer Saki Kono @sakikono__ , I receive colours from plants and from her, creating pieces that exist somewhere between colour and painting. We’ve exchanged landscapes and words between London and Kyoto, bringing our hands together along the way. A trail of colour and light, chased by two🧤 　 One day only. Welcoming you to our autumn garden in full bloom! 　 往復書簡 | Correspondence Wako Ishiguro, Saki Kono Sun, 1 November workshop 11am-1pm exhibition & book launch 2-6pm Present Tense 4 Ferntower Road, Newington Green, London, N5 2JG ✸ Benibana dyeing workshop | 11am-1pm Inspired by “Correspondence”, we’ll extract two distinct colours from the benibana(safflower) to create a handkerchief! Benibana Dyeing is special, The only flower traditionally used for Natural dyeing in Japan, treasured for centuries. A colour that feels like light itself, you may be surprised by just how beautiful plant dyes can be! 　 Saki Kono @sakikono__ b.Kyoto, Japan. After graduating from the natural dyeing and weaving school of Living National Treasure Fukumi Shimura, she studied under dyer Hiro Shimura. Moved by colour and the power of handcraft, she now leads workshops recreating crafting alluring rouge from safflower with ancient Japanese techniques. 　 Booking required ーlink in bio 　 ✸ About book: Garden, Today Wako Ishiguro @wakoishiguro is a London-based Japanese artist. This book features about 100 paintings, her exploration of the endless possibilities of collaboration between colours and forms. It expresses the presence of still-unorganised elements through the simultaneous spread of four paintings. However you open the pages, the colours and forms layer as if it were a garden. Bound with Coptic binding originating in Ancient Egypt, using threads dyed with plants picked in London. Available in two designs and three cover colours. Photographs by @kaehomma
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TOMORROW @raleighchapel, Stoke Newington → Present Tense: I Am the Performative Object, Sat 10 Oct 2026, 7pm – don’t miss this incredible gig 🦑 with Martin Sigler 🖤 @mor__sure + Damsel Elysium 🖤 @damsel.elysium, Cedrik Fermont 🖤 @cedriksyrphe and Lin Chiwei 🖤 @linchiweiphotostock. 🫥 £18/21 Link to Tickets and full programme and artists’ biographies in bio ↑
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Present Tense: Exposure and Hearbreak, Fri 9 Oct 2026, 7pm → We are so pleased to announce our incredible line-up for Exposure and Heartbreak ♥️ Agat Sharma @athisownpace, Phoenix Yemi @phoenixyemoja + black:ECHO @moonchile, Red on Gold @saurabh_shivakumar + Anastasija Stanojevic £18/21 Tickets on DICE Link in bio Phoenix Yemi + black:ECHO, Spellling: Black Charms for Protection draws reference from the ritual elements of Ìsomọlórúkọ, a traditional Yoruba naming ceremony performed to formally introduce a newborn to the world, Spellling… explores the ways in which words become invocations, woven into ritual and spoken into being. Drawing further from Black traditions, music and art, the work explores language as a talisman; an active force capable of concealing, affirming and protecting. Red on Gold, Saurabh Shivakumar + Anastasija Stanojevic – Blending voice and guitar with electronic effects, Red on Gold explores the meeting point between composed form and spontaneous creation. Drawing on their distinct cultural and musical backgrounds, the duo shape soundscapes that move between intimacy and abstraction, lyricism and texture. Every performance unfolds as a new conversation, inviting listeners into a shared space of reflection and discovery. Agat Sharma, Heartbreak – Agat Sharma and Field Studies participants are writing Heartbreak, a narrative performance that draws on a series of heartbreaks lived through in the six years since his move to the Netherlands. Sharma writes the text in public, drafting it during the residency with participants he has not met, oversharing by design and open to input from anyone who recognises what he is going through. The writing becomes an account of what remains after loss, all this love that’s left behind.
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Exposure and Heartbreak → We are heartbroken to announce that JJJJJerome Ellis will not be able to perform at Present Tense, Exposure and Heartbreak, on Friday 9 Oct 2026. 🙏 ♥️ But our heart beats that Exposure and Heartbreak is going ahead. We have something in store for you. Watch this space.
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FIELD STUDIES PRESENT TENSE 7–11 OCTOBER 2026 Starting tomorrow. A rare opportunity to spend time with artists and get close up to the processes, methods and thinking that animate their quietly radical practices. Four days of open workshops, talks, screenings, shared lunch and collective research, with access to the evening programme included. With 💙 Bhanu Kapil Agat Sharma @athisownpace Edka Jarząb @edkajarzab Carolyn Roy @carolynroyplatform Lalu Delbracio @lalu_delbracio Lin Chiwei @linchiweiphotostock Marf Summers @marfsummers JJJJJerome Ellis @jjjjjeromeellis Maite de Orbe @maitedeorbe Martin Sigler @mor__sure Cedrik Fermont @cedriksyrphe Bianca Pina @bianca___pina Joseph Kohlmaier Wednesday is now sold out. Day passes are still available for Thursday, Friday and Saturday at £90, including lunch by Maison Kim and entry to the evening programme. Concessions available. The evening performances are also open to the public, with individual tickets available separately. Links to DICE events in bio. Field Studies: Present Tense approaches performance not as the culmination of solitary practice, but as a form of group research and collective practice. 7–11 October Present Tense, London Full programme, day passes + evening tickets via field-studies.org – link in bio.
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Sharing food and convivial space is an essential part of Field Studies residencies. For Present Tense, 7–11 Oct 2026, Kim Kunn will be serving a different vegan bowl each day, designed around warmth, simplicity and communal eating. Maison Kim @maisonkim.ldn is a food project by Kim Kunn exploring food as a way of bringing people together. Rooted in seasonal cooking and shaped by Vietnamese flavours, French influences and years of hosting supper clubs and events, the food is generous, comforting and made for sharing. To find out more about Field Studies: Present Tense, day, residency and evening tickets, visit field-studies.org – link in bio.
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