Powerful stories. Shared experiences.
We were proud to be part of @thelateshows , celebrating incredible art, collaboration and cultural heritage across the North East 💫 🌃
Huge thanks to @patrick_ziza , @paul_stan_nataraj and @efuasutherland . Rooted in the North East, their art brings forward powerful and often overlooked stories, connecting them to wider global histories shaped by colonialism.
Developed through @contesteddesires residencies in Newcastle, Amsterdam, Budapest, Lisbon, Turin and Santiago, it was a real joy to share the work with our Late Shows audience.
Thank you to everyone who came by, and to all those who made it possible.
More about the artwork in the images…
✨Ziza’s durational performance reimagined maps and found objects to reveal colonial traces and hidden hierarchies, animating ceramic forms alongside domestic figurines and collectables.
✨Paul presented sound installations shaped by collaborative listening with communities in South Shields and Budapest, and collective responses to colonial voyages rooted in the collections at Lisbon’s National Museum of Natural History and Science.
✨Elisabeth’s films shared expanding research into Black and African lives in Newcastle, through retracing historical sites and interviews with Beverley Prevatt-Goldstein and Pat Poinen - founders of NEEACA and African Lives in Northern England.
We warmly thank the artists taking part. Contested Desires is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. In the UK, we are grateful for the support of @acegrams , @heritagefunduk and @communityfoundationnortheast and @newcastlecouncil 's Newcastle Culture Investment Fund.
Photos: @vonfoxpromotions
#ContestedDesires #Gateshead #Newcastle #Tyneandwear #Colonialism #TheLateShows #ArtAndHeritage #DecolonialArt #CulturalDialogue #D6studio
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Breathing Stela
Teaser Trailer
As part of Contested Desire: Constructive Dialogues (CDCD) @contesteddesires , my second residency at the Museo Egizio in Turin @museoegizio followed my first at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago @museodelamemoria , Chile. Each residency opened a different world: in Turin, I was struck by the monumental presence of ancient Egyptian artefacts. They revealed Europe’s enduring imperial fixation with Egypt.
The durational performance approached archival material and records as if they were living sources, unsettling fixed notions of power, beauty, spirituality, and inheritance. The embodied figure became an unexpected interlocutor mediating between the vitrined relics and the visitors who view them.
Contested Desire: Constructive Dialogues is a programme that investigates colonial heritage and its ongoing imprint on contemporary culture.
Original music by Marcus Herne @marcusherne
Video by Robin Studio @rickyraider
CDCD is funded by [email protected] programme of the @european.union and is implemented in partnership with:
@bjcem_aisbl , @creativecourt . @d6_eu_ , @eccom_it ,
@herengracht401 , @labonnebc , LaFabrique, @museodellecivilta , @museoegizio , @muhnac ,
@proprogressione , @xarkis_
Super proud of @patrick_ziza & his 'free to roam' installation premiering at the Late Shows through @d6culture@thelateshows 🫶😍.
(I did sound engineering on it).
#newcastle #art #artinstallation #decolonisation
✨The Late Shows at D6✨
📆 Sat 9 May, 18:00-22:30 (Ziza’s durational performance slowly unfolds from 19:00)
⏰ D6, 5 Charlotte Square, NE1 4XF
🎟 FREE
🔗 Find out more via our bio or d6culture.org
Images: Ziza, ‘Gaggle’ from Free to Roam, 2026. Image courtesy of the artist
Elisabeth Efua Sutherland, performance mapping historical stories of Black and African people who visited Newcastle. Photo: Fly Films UK
Paul Nataraj, We sound each other (detail). Photo: Matt Denham
#TheLateShows #Gateshead #Newcastle #Colonialism #ArtAndHeritage DecolonialArt D6studio
In occasione del progetto Contested Desires: Constructive Dialogues gli artisti Emiddio Vásquez e Patrick Ziza sono stati in residenza presso il Museo della Memoria e dei Diritti Umani di Santiago del Cile, istituzione dedicata alla complessa eredità della dittatura (1973–1990).
Patrick Ziza ha inizialmente esplorato la dissidenza artistica della dittatura, riorientando poi la sua ricerca a partire dalle testimonianze degli ex prigionieri politici. Tra queste, la storia del Caballito de mar: l’immagine di un cavalluccio marino vista attraverso una grata da detenuti bendati, divenuta simbolo di resistenza e resilienza. Queste testimonianze, appartenenti alla collezione del museo, hanno ispirato la performance Tracepace. L’opera, presentata nel piazzale del museo, ha coinvolto il pubblico in una pratica collettiva del camminare, rendendo omaggio ai difensori dei diritti umani e riflettendo su memoria, violenza politica e resilienza.
Emiddio Vásquez ha orientato la propria ricerca verso le monete come dispositivi sociali, analizzando esemplari modificati da prigionieri politici e mettendoli in relazione con la storia di La Moneda, bombardata durante il golpe del 1973. Lavorando anche su materiali dell’architetto Miguel Lawner e su monete del regime, ha concluso la residenza con la lecture performativa Numismática, incentrata su memoria, ideologia e pratiche di resistenza.
#CDCDResidency #ContestedDesires #CreativeEurope #DecolonizeCulture #CulturalDialogue
@contesteddesires : Constructive Dialogues è finanziato dal programma @creative.eu dell’Unione Europea ed è realizzato in collaborazione con: @d6_eu_ , @Xarkis , @labonnebcn , @herengracht401 , @muhnac , @museodellecivilta , @proprogressione , @bjcem_aisbl , @museoegizio , @creativecourt._ , La Fabrique Art Studio.
Partner associati: @d6culture , @larnaka2030 , @cyprusuniversitytechnology , @fondazionesbac , @casa_arabe .
In collaborazione con: @nubuke_foundation , @museodelamemoria , RMCG - @uniofleicester .
Free to Roam with @patrick_ziza and Mwenza Blell at @giftfest offered space to consider who gets to move freely, who and by whom the world is built for, and how we find - or create - the third spaces where we can belong.
The workshop began with an invitation from Ziza and Mwenza to take our shoes off and put on one of the many mismatched pairs laid out. We then walked - often unevenly and clumsily - in these new shoes, pausing to ask each other questions.
This led to a conversation between Ziza and Mwenza. Ziza spoke about creating ‘third’ spaces through embodied performance where traditions and futures meet. Moving between lived experience, theory and creative practice, the conversation asked urgent questions about freedom, belonging and resistance - is it ever possible to truly be in someone else’s shoes? And what does it mean to be free within systems structured by deep asymmetries?
Thank you so much to Ziza and Mwenza for making visible what is so often unseen; to our amazing audience and their rich insightful questions. And to GIFT for this collaboration.
💫 Ziza will be continuing these explorations in an open studio at D6 for @thelateshows , in a durational performance, alongside work by @efuasutherland and @paul_stan_nataraj .
✨Sat 9 May, 6pm-10.30pm, D6, 5, Charlotte Square, NE1 4XF
Ziza is developing Free To Roam through Contested Desires residencies - including at the @museoegizio , Turin, Santiago’s @museodelamemoria and with D6 in Newcastle.
Contested Desires is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. In the UK, we are grateful for the support of @aceagrams , @heritagefunduk , @paulhamlynfoundation and @communityfoundationnortheast and @newcastlecouncil 's Culture Investment Fund.
Images: @vonfoxpromotions
#ContestedDesires #Gateshead #Newcastle #Tyneandwear #Colonialism #GiftFestival #ArtAndHeritage #DecolonialArt #CulturalDialogue #D6studio
We catch up with D6 artist @patrick_ziza about new work they're sharing for the first time with audiences in the North East - following their @contesteddesires residencies in Chile, Italy and the UK.
💫 Ziza at @giftfest , Fri 1 May, 13:30, Gateshead Library, NE8 4LN
💫 Contested Desires at @thelateshows , Sat 9 May, 18:00, D6, 5 Charlotte Square, NE1 4XF
More info and booking in our bio
Reel credits:
Tracepace performance at the @museodelamemoria , Chile; Footage: Claudio Santana
Breathing Stela performance at the @museoegizio , Turin, Italy. Footage: Riccardo Antonina
Tracepace performance at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Chile; Image: Rayen Luna Solar
Contested Desires is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. In the UK, we are grateful for the support of @aceagrams , @heritagefunduk , @paulhamlynfoundation and @communityfoundationnortheast 's and @newcastlecouncil 's Culture Investment Fund.
#ContestedDesires #Gateshead #Newcastle #Tyneandwear #Colonialism #TheLateShows #GiftFestival #ArtAndHeritage #DecolonialArt #CulturalDialogue #D6studio
Free To Roam is a new body of work by artist Ziza, presented in conversation with Mwenza Blell. The project explores Western knowledge systems - including religion, art history and scientific inquiry - and how power is upheld across these frameworks. Drawing on oral histories, speculative world‑building and personal heritage, the work questions how everyday structures produce authority, and whose experiences are recognised, valued or erased.
📍 Fri 1 May
⏱ 1.30pm
🎟 FREE - Booking required
🔗 Book at link in bio
📸 Rayen Luna Solar
Access considerations:
✅ Audience participation (optional)
Two weeks ago we performed at IKLECTIK, LONDON, here's the first clip of ONLY BREATH, an immersive performance where breath, electronic sound, movement and voice create a shared sensory environment moving between meditation, sound installation and dance floor.
The full 2.5 hour performance will be available soon on Vimeo and Youtube with a private link. Next performance to be announced soon.
Music, Sound Design and Video Editing Marcus Herne
Movement and Vocals Ziza
Vocals & Space Holding Margot Wilson
Images and Projections James Merrell
Producer April Kelly
Venue I K L E C T I K
@iklectikartlab@marcusherne@patrick_ziza@margot_wilson_art@jamesmerrellphotography@aprillenakelly
#breathwork
#liveart
#soundart
#experimentalmusic
#performanceart
#londonart
#londonevents
#peckham
#thingstodoinlondon
#deep listening
#embodiedpractice
#durationalperformance
#immersiveart
Three days to go!
Tickets on DICE / IKLECTIK
O N L Y B R E A T H
Only Breath is an immersive performance where breath, electronic sound, movement and voice create a shared sensory environment moving between meditation, sound installation and dance
floor.
Only Breath invites audiences to inhabit a shared space of listening, movement,
meditation, and ritual.
Event Information
Date: 26 March
Venue: IKLECTIK
Address: 95a Rye Lane, Peckham Levels, London SE15
Doors: 19:00
Start: 19:30
Tickets:
DICE - IKLECTIK
Performance Structure ...7.30 pm
WAKE
An electronically channelled narrator introduces fragments of mythic text while the breath of the room slowly synchronises.
FLIGHT
Layered harmonics, movement and vocal improvisation expand the environment as audiences move freely within the space.
DREAM
Participants are invited to lie down within a resonant chime-bell sound bath, entering a liminal state between rest and attention. Blankets provided.
DANCE
Contemporary electronic rhythms transform the space into a collective dance floor where performer and audience merge.
Images and Projections James Merrell
Music, Sound Design and Video Editing Marcus Herne
Movement and Vocals Ziza
Breath Space Holding Margot
Producer April Kelly
JOIN US!
TICKETS ON DICE/IKLECTIK
@iklectikartlab@marcusherne@patrick_ziza@margot_wilson_art@jamesmerrellphotography@aprillenakelly
#breathwork
#liveart
#soundart
#experimentalmusic
#performanceart
#londonart
#londonevents
#peckham
#thingstodoinlondon
#deep listening
#embodiedpractice
#durationalperformance
#immersiveart
One week to go!
O N L Y B R E A T H
Only Breath is an immersive performance where breath, electronic sound, movement and voice create a shared sensory environment moving between meditation, sound installation and dance
floor.
Only Breath invites audiences to inhabit a shared space of listening, movement,
meditation, and ritual.
Event Information
Date: 26 March
Venue: IKLECTIK
Address: 95a Rye Lane, Peckham Levels, London SE15
Doors: 19:00
Start: 19:30
Tickets:
DICE - IKLECTIK
Performance Structure ...7.30 pm
WAKE
An electronically channelled narrator introduces fragments of mythic text while the breath of the room slowly synchronises.
FLIGHT
Layered harmonics, movement and vocal improvisation expand the environment as audiences move freely within the space.
DREAM
Participants are invited to lie down within a resonant chime-bell sound bath, entering a liminal state between rest and attention. Blankets provided.
DANCE
Contemporary electronic rhythms transform the space into a collective dance floor where performer and audience merge.
Producer April Kelly
JOIN US!
TICKETS ON DICE/IKLECTIK
@iklectikartlab@marcusherne@patrick_ziza@margot_wilson_art@jamesmerrellphotography@aprillenakelly
#breathwork
#liveart
#soundart
#experimentalmusic
#performanceart
#londonart
#londonevents
#peckham
#thingstodoinlondon
#deep listening
#embodiedpractice
#durationalperformance
#immersiveart
ANNOUNCEMENT 📣
Part of our IK KIN programme, we are excited to host Only Breath by Breath Quartet
26 March | Doors 7PM start 7.30PM
A live immersive durational performance where electronic sound, voice, movement, and ritual converge around the elemental act of breathing.
Only Breath unfolds over 3 hours as a shared sensory environment moving between sound installation, meditation, and dance floor. Across four movements — WAKE, FLIGHT, DREAM, DANCE — the audience is guided through shifting states of perception and embodied exploration.
Fragments of mythic text, layered electronic soundscapes, vocal improvisation, choreography, and projection create a living feedback loop between sound, body, and space. Audiences are invited to move, rest, listen, and dance within the performance.
Breath Quartet is a collective of four artists: Patrick Ziza (movement), Marcus Herne (sound), James Merrell (visuals), and Margot Wilson (artist and founder). Their fully improvised performances explore breath as rhythm, presence, and collective attunement.
Tickets now live on DICE.
📍 IKLECTIK, Peckham Levels
🗓 26 March Doors open 7PM - Start 7.30PM
Content and access notes:
• This is a durational 3 hour journey. You are invited to stay for the whole duration or come back and return as suits your needs
• All ages are welcome
• The venue is fully accessible via a lift
• Low lights and loud sounds (earplugs provided)
Please get in touch with us if you have any questions or other needs.
#breathquartet #iklectik #experimentalart #durationalperformance #londonevents
