Juice🍹

Meet the UK artists of Two Places at Once. A free headphone-led listening experience connecting Gloucester, London and Dhaka through sound, poetry, movement, memory, migration, climate and belonging. Iftikhar Latif @yungifto is a British-Bangladeshi writer, performer and producer from East London. His work explores social relationships, self and belonging through the lens of growing up as a working-class Bengali in Tower Hamlets. Juice Cui @juice_shuting is a sound artist and freelance composer whose practice moves across sound, theatre, painting, sculpture, film and performance, creating immersive sonic worlds that question time, perception and history. 📸: Shaw Liu Lauren Scott @laurenscott1.0 is a movement artist specialising in street styles, with a practice rooted in popping and hip hop, alongside contemporary and theatrical influences. 📸: @terrraforming - Lizzie Quek Mercedes White @mjdwgram is a Gloucester-based multi-hyphenate creative working across poetry, theatre, music and sound design for immersive experiences, with a practice centred on gentleness, connection and audience engagement. 📸: Georgia Williams Audiences will be invited to put on headphones and move between three audio channels created by artists in the UK and Bangladesh — listening, sitting, moving, writing, responding, or simply spending time with the sound. LONDON
Friday 29 May 2026
12pm–5pm
Waterloo Millennium Green
Baylis Road, London SE1 7AA GLOUCESTER
Saturday 30 May 2026
12pm–5pm
GASP Studios / Meanwhile Gallery
Level 1, Eastgate Shopping Centre, GL1 1PA Gloucester will also include free drop-in workshops:
Poetry / Spoken Word: 1pm–2pm
Dance / Movement: 3pm–4pm Free. Relaxed. No booking needed. Created by state of the [art] in partnership with BACK Art @backartfoundation Foundation, supported by British Council @britishcouncilbd and Strike A Light @strikealightfestival . #TwoPlacesAtOnce #Soundroom #StateOfTheArt #GloucesterEvents #LondonEvents SoundArt ParticipatoryArt ImmersiveArt BritishCouncil StrikeALight BACKArtFoundation

“How does scent translate into a musical scale?” Participatory Performance + Installation: Melodies (memories) Unheard, Futures Forgotten by Juice Cui Exhibition hall “Through the Fog of Uncertainty” ​​ An experimental live sound and scent performance exploring nostalgia, identity, and perception through an immersive multisensory environment. The audience is surrounded by an evolving landscape of shifting fragrances and a live-generated soundscape created from found and resonant objects. Drawing on experimental sound practices and scent research, the work blurs the boundaries between memory and imagination, presence and absence. Through sensory distortion and immersion, it invites reflection on how personal and collective narratives are formed, fragmented, and reimagined. Veldze, entry from Bruninieku iela 25, Riga @veldze.radosarupnica May 6 - 10 🎬Check out P6 the video captured by @chenchiayi_art 📷 P1, P3, P4, P5, P7 photos captured by @fuzzy_medium 📷 P7 above captured by @_virse_paula_ 🌹Special thanks to our great creator @sandrismurins who has made my life easier! #scent #scentfestival #scentwork #scentoftheday #scentart

Hand-Made Noise Boxes are now ready for my sonic world building 🌍 workshop in Shanghai West Bund Museum to celebrate the Masquerade Art Festival. Anyone who has already signed up the workshop will receive one as a free base to build up 👊👊👊 Many thanks to @joanccqj who has helped along! #sound #soundart #soundartist #soundartinstallation #soundarts #soundartists #soundartfestival #soundartevents #fineart #finearts

Have you ever heard the story of The Last Emperor? Glad that the work The Last Emperor is back again, two years after the original immersive puppetry! This time, it returns in a puppet format as part of The Motive of the Puppeteer, presented by @fringeartsbath from 22 May to 6 June 2026. “In the long run, we are all dead.” The puppets are from — and represent — Juice Cui’s multi-sensory puppet show The Last Emperor, which explores the tumultuous life of Puyi, the final emperor of China’s Qing Dynasty. The production unfolds Puyi’s story across five distinct chapters: his early years as a powerless feudal emperor (1906–1912); his attempts at restoration during the Republican era (1912–1931); his role as a puppet ruler during World War II (1931–1945); his involvement in the Chinese Civil War (1945–1949); and finally, his life as an ordinary citizen in post-1949 New China. The show portrays Puyi as a man caught in the whirlwind of history, struggling against forces beyond his control. The puppet is made entirely from recycled materials, and its form is based on archival images and photographs of Puyi. I would also like to express my deepest thanks to The Last Emperor TEAM, Dr. Annie Goh @annie_g0h and LCC Sound Arts @lccsoundarts , as that is where my theatrical dreams first began. The Motive of the Puppeteer Curated by Ömer Ekmel Kara @oek1998 Venue: Old Glassworks BA1 5BW “Not all strings are visible; not all motives are apparent; not all control is intentional — or are they?” Puppeteers such as Jim Henson and Sergey Obraztsov present a familiar image: a visible hand guiding movement, with seemingly clear intentions—storytelling, performance, and craft. But what if the puppeteers themselves are also subject to unseen forces?

Paradise Lost: A playful improvisation (half structured + half free) by Juice Cui @juice_shuting and Santi Lowe @santilowe Musicians of Improv Duo Chapter at Napoli Totale Elettronica @napolitotale and Opificio Puca @opificiopuca Selection of instruments, objects, diy electronics, synthesisers, toys, radio Audios are captured by zoom H3, but near the PAs - so the recordings might be slightly distorted Great thanks to Marginale Crew @napolitotale and Paolo Montella @p_aolomontella Thanks to @alessiadamianimusic for the pictures ~ Marginale Marginale is an electronic and acousmatic music festival organized by the composers of the Napoli Totale Elettronica collective and the curators of Opificio Puca. In its second edition, it will host international artists from various disciplines. The festival aims to explore and promote the participatory methods inherent in improvisational practices, particularly in electronic music. The festival is still going on until May19th. Check out https://www.napolitotaleelettronica.it/napoliground/programma.php for more programs. #electronics #performance #soundart #soundartist #contemporarymusic

How does scent translate into a musical scale? What is the relationship between fragrance, the colour wheel, and musical scales? For example: Rose 🌹 → Pink → D♭ Major The scent is settled— where is the sound? Come and join me for a participatory performance tomorrow at approximately 20:00. Melodies (memories) Unheard, Futures Forgotten by Juice Cui Veldze, entry from Bruninieku iela 25, Riga @veldze.radosarupnica May 6 - 10 Participant of the Scent + Art Festival Performance + exhibition: Through the Fog of Uncertainty There would be free samples to take away only tomorrow!;) #scent #scentfestival #scentwork

Not Foley Not Music Not Sound Effects Just Playing without thinking At least some form of documentation proves that I’m still making weird experiments 😉. This is also an early notice that WE (me and my music partner @santilowe ) will be officially sharing news about our interactive concert in London very soon, curated by @xiaommmmmmin__ . Although there is still a long way to go (I haven’t written any new complicated pieces this year tbh😅👍)

𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗘 | 𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 | 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 1 & 2 𝙏𝙝𝙪 16𝙩𝙝 𝘼𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙡 2026 𝙎𝙊𝙉𝙄𝘾 𝙇𝘼𝘽 5𝙋𝙈–6𝙋𝙈 𝙁𝙧𝙞 17𝙩𝙝 𝘼𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙡 2026 𝘾𝘼𝙋𝙏𝙐𝙍𝙀 𝙇𝘼𝘽 12𝙋𝙈–1𝙋𝙈 A series of performances exploring climate, ecology, and sustainability. Co-produced with Reach’26 Arts and Sustainability Festival, these concerts bring together works that respond to environmental challenges and consider new approaches to artistic practice. Featuring works by Joseph Potter, Andrew Lewis, Viktoria Arvayová and Celestína Minichová, Eimer Birkbeck, Mathias Arrignon, Sarah Angliss, Abi Prián and Miki Corfiel, Gordon Delap, and Hantao Li with Juice Shuting Cui. Link in bio for full programme

A couple of exciting projects I am presenting in Late March/Mid April 🔊 The following schedule is arranged by time. +++Most projects are sonic related+++ 1. Acoustic Property by me & Xiaomin Fan @xiaommmmmmin__ was selected at Future of Money Design Awards, Pay 360 event Conference, 26th March, Excel, London 2. Presenter/Sound Designer of ‘Yi Xin Guan Wu’ (please follow @transformingoneness for more updates) by Yijie Li @flavia07_10 and Lu Wang @luluwang_arts at Prague Quadrennial SYMPOSIUM: PERFORMING EXHIBITIONS, CURATING SCENOGRAPHIES, April 13–15, ARCHA+ theatre, Prague, Czechia @praguequadrennial 3. IF Festival Stream <Kleinsche Flasche> & Climate|Sound|Action2 <Natura 2040> with @hantaoli98 Hantao Li (with great thanks to @lccsoundarts @annie_g0h ) at Sonorities Festival Belfast, April 15-18 @sonorities 4. Composition for Physical Theatre__The Maid by Sifan Shao, April 17-18, Young Theatre, Shanghai, China 5. Outland Publishing Fair, Exhibiter/Publisher of Quiet Tension Imprint, April 17-19, Copeland Gallery, London @outlandpublishingfair 6. Earth Night with the Climate Emergency Network: Performing Unspun Destiny by @luluwang_arts with @rayashees , April 20th, Platform Bar at CSM @csm_news Loudest Music is soundless; grandest form is shapeless. “大音希声, 大象无形。” #sound #soundmindsoundbody #soundart #soundartist

There are moments I feel overwhelmed—disappointed in the world, disconnected from what’s happening, unsure where I position myself. Sometimes my research feels distant from reality, and that frustration lingers. But maybe the answer isn’t to chase what’s expected—maybe it’s to return to what I care about, what I love, where I am rooted. To allow distraction, to drift. I spent a few days at the Seal Rehabilitation and Research Centre @zeehondencentrum in Lauwersoog, surrounded by sick seals, witnessing a release back into the sea. I felt incredibly lucky to be there, to listen, to document, to immersed in, even without understanding the language. For a moment, things felt quiet, and enough. 📷: Me and Simon

Thank you for joining us at the last two sound art performances of Embracing, Unravelling and Smashing the Fantasy at White Space Gallery (@whitespace76 ), curated by the wonderful Just Art Collective (@justart_collective ). In this special edition, we introduced a new work, Cosmic or Reality: a structured improvisation for cello, melodica, and steel tongue drum (P2). Embracing, Unravelling and Smashing the Fantasy is a sound art performance featuring DIY clay mask flute, handmade accordion, DIY electronics and synthesizers, performed by Juice in collaboration with cellist Santi Lowe. The work reimagines nine Western fairytales and Eastern folktales, offering an immersive audio journey that unsettles nostalgia and invites new interpretations. These stories evoke compassion, valour, imagination, sacrifice, curiosity, and transformation, forming a fluid tapestry of cultural and moral depth. 📷: @jason_liiin @jennifer.jiang_jiajie #sound #soundmindsoundbody #soundart

March Sonic Diary 🎩 “How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures weary recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls.“—William Faulkner I want to thank all the curators, film makers, artists who have got me involved into those projects. Feel free to check them out: Composition, Sound Design and Artwork: Theme song for <The Orphan of Zhao> directed by Ji Junxiang, adapted by James Fenton, 10-14 March, at ADC Theatre, Cambridge <Red Veil> at Xiaohan Luo’s @__hanhl_21 Solo exhibition: Outsider, Elsewhere, 12-17 March, The Handbag Factory, London Artist at “Soundrroundings”an online sound art exhibition curated by @renegcepeda * The New Media Caucus @hantaoli98 Sound for speculative film <Natura 2040> By Hantao Li: screening at immersive acts symposium, @royalcollegeofart Sound for speculative film <Giants’ Anatomy> By Hantao Li: screening at @arnolfiniarts commissioned as part of FVU New Takes, 28 February 2026 – 31 March 2026, Bristol Artist at Shiyin Chengdian Art Studio Exhibition, 時のまま, 29 March, 茑屋书店, Japan Concert Tour: MARCH 4-5 Fluid Civilisation at Lotus Relam LONDON MARCH 18-21 Embracing, Unravelling and Smashing the Fantasy & Where There Is Singing, There You Will Settle Down, Ircam*CDA, PARIS MARCH 22-23 Embracing, Unravelling and Smashing the Fantasy, curated by @justart_collective at White Space Gallery, EDINBURGH Interview: Getting Involved on @lori.7777 ‘s Spatial Audio project, looking forward to this 🚀