Block Universe and Tate invite a selection of artists, curators and  writers to reflect on contemporary choreographic practice. Responding to  the term ‘post-dance’, coined at the MDT conference in Stockholm  (2015), the event considers the implications of an expanded notion of  choreography. Our contributors will be asked to issue provocations and responses  that consider choreography in artistic practice. Exploring questions  around liveness and the embodied labour of dance, join us in...

Block Universe and Tate invite a selection of artists, curators and  writers to reflect on contemporary choreographic practice. Responding to  the term ‘post-dance’, coined at the MDT conference in Stockholm  (2015), the event considers the implications of an expanded notion of  choreography. Our contributors will be asked to issue provocations and responses  that consider choreography in artistic practice. Exploring questions  around liveness and the embodied labour of dance, join us in...

Block Universe, London's leading international performance art festival and commissioning body kicks off Frieze Week with Founding Director & Curator Louise O'Kelly in conversation with artist Oliver Beer, known for creating performances focussed on the relationship between sound and space, particularly the voice and architecture.  Listen in on the conversation at The Standard, London's Library Lounge and hear more about Beer's upcoming performances and exhibitions that will be taking...

Performance and transcendence have always maintained close links. That's why Louise O'Kelly, Founding Director and Curator of Block Universe, London's leading performance art festival, catches up with two artists from the 2019 edition, Paul Maheke and Melika Ngombe Kolongo (Nkisi) for a mystical exchange on the concept of transcendence and performance practice. For the Block Universe festival in 2019, Paul Maheke and Melika Ngombe Kolongo collaborated to produce Sènsa, a performance using...