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Josephine Burton: We Are Free

Image credit: Photo of Josephine Burton For two decades, Josephine Burton has shaped Dash Arts into one of London’s most inquisitive, boundary-expanding cultural forces – a home for work that folds together languages, communities and lived experience with rare honesty…

Rachel Mars: On remembering that people are the thing

Image credit: Photo of Rachel Mars. Rachel Mars has long carved out a singular space in British performance – weaving together queer, Jewish and feminist histories with a mischievous intelligence and a deep belief in people, process and community. Recently…

Lee Adams: Frequencies of Freedom

Image credit: Self portrait, by Lee Adams, November 2025. Taken outside Parajanov’s childhood home in Tbilisi. For over two decades, artist, curator and DJ Lee Adams has channelled a deep current of ritual, resistance and sonic experimentation through KAOS –…

CN Lester: Hope is a verb

Image credit: CN Lester, photographed by Raphael Neal. Over the past decade, CN Lester’s Transpose has evolved from a self-run, one-night experiment into one of London’s most vital celebrations of trans and queer artistry. Returning to the Barbican’s Pit stage…

Becca Voelcker: Rewilding the Lens

Image: Garden Pieces (1998) Dir Margaret Tait, Courtesy of Margaret Tait and LUX, London. See film on Wed 5 Nov 2025, 19:00. barbican.org.uk As the world prepares for COP30 in Belém, Brazil, we turn to Dr Becca Voelcker – BBC…

Susanna Davies-Crook: Dystopia is Not the Future

Image credit: Photograph of Susanna Davies-Crook by Liz Seabrook For over 15 years, writer and curator Susanna Davies-Crook has been a vital force in contemporary art and media – shaping conversations that bridge the poetic and the political. Her latest…

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley: My role is to stir references

Image description: THE DELUSION, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, 2025. Commissioned and produced by Serpentine Arts Technologies. © Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley Artist–game designer Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley has built a formidable practice of “living archives” that centre Black Trans life – spanning game worlds, performance and…