@somersethouse

class="content__text" Ever wondered how far away Somerset House is from Mexico City? Monte Carlo? The Butterfly Galaxy? @jitishkallat reimagines our connection with nature and our position within the cosmos 🌀 ‘Whorled (Here After Here After Here)’ is conceived as a seismic ripple or a galactic whorl, spiralling outwards from the centre of the courtyard. Enter through one spiral and leave through the other and explore a continuum of text and symbols which follow the visual identity of the UK’s road signage. Presented in partnership with @knmaindia

February 26, 2023

class="content__text" PODCAST 🎧 Why is A.I. so Secretive?⁠ ⁠ Filmmaker Morgan Quaintance set out to explore the world of AI, but all his interview requests with institutions, AI developers and companies were met with a wall of silence.⁠ ⁠ Frustrated about the stonewalling, he started to think more about what this says about the development of AI.⁠ ⁠ LISTEN on your favourite podcast apps (Apple, Spotify, Google). 🔍 Just search ‘The Process Somerset House’.⁠ —⁠ Produced by @alannah_chance

February 26, 2023

class="content__text" 🏺There’s one week to go until the return of @collectartfair !🏺   Contemporary craft has never been more sought after and this is your chance to browse and buy works from over 400 artists from across the globe. The fair presents a cohort of leading galleries and outstanding artists whose works have been made in the last five years. Talks featuring experts in art, craft and design will also take place and will be available to stream online. 📅 3-5 March 2023 (previews 1-2 March) 
🎟 Book via link in bio for tickets. ____ Credit: 1. Represented at Collect by FIVE. Untitled I, II and II by Dalia James. Represented at Collect by Cavaliero Finn. Photo: Beth Evans, stylist Laura Fulmine, 2. Intoart at Collect 2022. Photo: David Parry, 3. Oxford Ceramics Gallery at Collect 2022. Photo: Iona Wolff

February 25, 2023

class="content__text" CRIPPING THE ART WORLD⁠ A panel discussion on disability justice and how disabled artistic communities are finding their own creative interventions into cripping the art world.⁠ ⁠ Featuring artists, writers and curators @jamilaprowse , @iarlaith_nifheorais , Jameisha Prescod (@youlookokaytome ), and artist & writer Marie Smith (@marie_elaina_ )⁠ ⁠ Part of @somersethousestudios 's programme Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy, running from Feb - March.⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Tuesday 28 Feb. Tix via link in bio.⁠ ⁠❗ Accessibility info in the comments⁠ Lead photo: Jameisha Prescod (@youlookokaytome )⁠

February 24, 2023

class="content__text" Artist and writer @JamilaProwse presents a three-week film installation at Somerset House Studios as part of Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy. ⁠ 🎞️ Featuring works from @leah_r_clements , Kyla Harris (@bedroom_activist ), Carolyn Lazard, @lou_macnamara , @djofraymakumbu and @lizzyrosequartz . ⁠ 📍 FREE | G18 at Somerset House | 20 Feb – 12 Mar

February 23, 2023

class="content__text" “Manchester, Mumbai, the moon: Jitish Kallat's huge spiral installation in London connects climate change and the cosmos” - @theartnewspaper.official ⁠ ⁠ “It's a work that compresses geography and skews direction, effectively playing with space”⁠ ⁠ Our new courtyard commission 'Whorled (Here After Here After Here)' by @jitishkallat is free and open to the public until 23 April 🌀⁠ ⁠ ⁠ 📸: David Parry/PA Media.

February 22, 2023

class="content__text" How can we imagine a future where meaningful care and resistance is a standard for all bodies?⁠ ⁠ Our @somersethousestudios -led event series HYPER FUNCTIONAL, ULTRA HEALTHY focusses on disability justice through a programme of newly commissioned artworks, films, workshops, and conversations.⁠ ⁠ Our first event, a panel discussion on how disabled communities create interventions into cripping the art world, takes place next Tuesday 28 Feb.⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Discover the programme via link in bio.⁠

February 22, 2023

class="content__text" It’s official – The Horror Show! ends today. 👹⁠ ⁠ We’ve enjoyed 4 months of an alternative perspective on the last five decades of modern British history, and we’ve loved seeing your snaps as you’ve journeyed to the underbelly of Britain’s cultural psyche.🤘⁠ ⁠ There’s still a chance to get down and see the exhibition today; hit the link in our bio for final tickets!⁠ ⁠ 📸@bigfatsatsuma ⁠

February 22, 2023

class="content__text" It’s the final weekend of the Horror Show! Expect:⁠ ⁠ 👹Subversion⁠ 👹Transgression⁠ 👹The supernatural⁠ ⁠ Take a heady ride through the disruption of 1970s punk to the revolutionary potential of modern witchcraft, showing how the anarchic alchemy of horror – its subversion, transgression and the supernatural – can help make sense of the world around us.⁠ ⁠ Must end this Sunday 19 Feb.⁠ ⁠ 🔗Click the link in our bio for tickets.⁠

February 22, 2023

class="content__text" 🌀Now open: Whorled (Here After Here After Here)🌀⁠ ⁠ The new, free courtyard commission from Mumbai based artist @jitishkallat is his first major public commission in the UK.⁠ ⁠ Walk through two intersecting spirals, 336 metres long, that echo the signage of UK roads and connects our iconic neoclassical courtyard both to locations across the planet and the distant universe.⁠ ⁠ Presented in partnership with @knmaindia ⁠ ⁠ Photo credit: © David Parry/PA.

February 22, 2023

class="content__text" PODCAST 🎧 Why is A.I. so Secretive?⁠ ⁠ Filmmaker Morgan Quaintance set out to explore different cultural attitudes around AI, but all his interview requests with public institutions, AI developers and robotics companies were met with a wall of silence.⁠ ⁠ Frustrated about the stonewalling he'd experienced, he started to think more about the process and what this says about the development of AI.⁠ ⁠ LISTEN on your favourite podcast apps (Apple, Spotify, Google). 🔍 Just search ‘The Process Somerset House’.⁠ —⁠ Produced by @alannah_chance ⁠

February 22, 2023

class="content__text" Happy Valentine’s Day monsters! Here’s a selection of love-related, horror-inspired artworks from our current exhibition The Horror Show! 🖤⁠ ⁠ 1. Linder, The Goddess Who Has Sky As Hair, 2019, 2. Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Bloody Haemorrhaging Narcissus, 2009 ,3. Juno Calypso, A Dream in Green, 2015. © Juno Calypso. Courtesy of the artist

February 15, 2023