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Event

2026
6.00pm - 9.00pm

Event

What Temple Do We Want?

  • Location

    Chelsea Space, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU

  • Date
  • Time
Join us in a participatory performance and collective action that builds on artist Eva Sajovic’s recent work Rise and Fall of a Temple.

An invitation to imagine, deliberate, and act together. Come together to dream collectively and embody shared agency through sound, movement, and costume. Together we will ask: What future do we want? What future can we imagine—and divine—together?

Eva has led a collaborative process of creating costumes and props in collaboration with Rowan Kelly, which will be shared and worn. Following a procession guided by Almiro Andrade, in the character of an augur, we will gather in a people’s assembly led by Yaz Ashmawi to consider what a “temple” for the future might be: what values it upholds, what it shelters, and what it excludes. Music by Joe Bates.

The evening culminates in a collective decision on whether the temple will stand or fall, followed by an embodied action in response.

A late evening opening of Rise and Fall of a Temple and refreshments at Chelsea Space will follow.

This event is free and open to all. Please contact our team if you have any specific access requirements: publicprogramme@arts.ac.uk


Schedule:
Perfomance: 6.00pm - 8.00pm (Chelsea Parade Ground)
Exhibition late opening & refreshments: 8.00pm - 9.00pm (Chelsea Space)

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