Diasporas Now U.K. Tour 2025-2026
Macrocosmic Futures
Primary in Nottingham – 12 December
Diasporas Now, in partnership with the V&A, South London Gallery, Spike Island, and Primary, selected six Global Majority artists working in live art through an open call for a national tour of commissioned performances under the theme of Macrocosmic Futures.
The first iteration of the Diasporas Now Tour will take place at Primary in Nottingham on December 12 at 6.30 pm. Our first line-up includes Mahsa Salali and Tif Wellington, followed by a DJ set by Princess Truim.
Date: December 12
Time: 6.30 pm (doors open), performances from 7:00 pm
Location: Primary, 33 Seely Rd, Nottingham NG7 1NU
About Macrocosmic Futures:
Diasporas Now’s 2025-2026 tour theme Macrocosmic Futures combines ancestral practices with new technologies as tools of divination toward preferred futures – rescripting interconnected narratives from the microcosm of our embodied realities to the macrocosm of our political and ecological landscapes.
Drawing from the framework of Afrofuturism and speculative fiction, Macrocosmic Futures widens the scope to pan-diasporic, pre-colonial perspectives – how can we relate to ourselves, to each other, and to more-than-human consciousness, when we centre values outside the historical trajectories of colonialism and capitalist extraction? What rituals can we co-create as future ancestors in the face of planetary transformation?
Diasporas Now: Macrocosmic Futures is supported by the Arts Council England.
About Diasporas Now:
Diasporas Now is a live art community and cultural agency that champions artists of the Global Majority through collaborative performance incubation, institutional residencies, curated programming, and alternative arts education.
About The Artists:
Mahsa Salali is a queer Iranian performance artist whose practice engages long-durational live art as a strategy of resistance. Through stillness, repetition, and endurance, they interrogate the systems that police gender, sexuality, and immigrant identity, carving visibility for bodies that are silenced or erased. For Salali, performance is both archive and protest: an insistence on presence in the face of erasure.
Tif Wellington practice explores the relationship between object and narrative, folklore and reality. Their work illuminates stories that have been considered as “other” within the West, storytelling through the interweaving of personal experiences growing up in London and cultural histories from their own Afro-Caribbean diaspora. Using photography, video, sound and sculpture as a way of communicating ideas; they approach installations and performances as a collection of thoughts that become embodied within a space, working site specifically to include the audience as a participatory medium.
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