Diasporas Now U.K. Tour 2025-2026
Macrocosmic Futures
Spike Island in Bristol – 26 February
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 second iteration of the Diasporas Now Tour will take place at Spike Island in Bristol on February 26 at 6.30 pm. The line-up includes Hannan Jones, Emma Korantema, and Hongxi Li, followed by DJ sets to be announced.
Date: February 26
Time: 6.30 pm (doors open), performances from 7:00 pm
Location: Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol BS1 6UX, United Kingdom
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:
Hannan Jones is an artist of Algerian and Welsh origin raised on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja, Western Australia, based in Glasgow. Research-led and process driven, she practices at the intersections of moving-image, installation and sound. Jones deep-dives into concepts of hybridity, language, and rhythms that are associated with cultural and social migration, and psychogeography.
Emma Korantema is a Ghanaian-British musician, writer and multidisciplinary artist from South London whose work moves between sound, philosophy and poetry. A former doctor, she uses music as an autobiographical form of inquiry into the body, power and liberation, exploring how sound can reveal and rewire human experience and healing.
Hongxi Li is a London-based Chinese artist whose sculptural and performance work examines human behaviour shaped by social conditions, with a focus on post-communist and Sino-capitalist frameworks. Her practice interrogates how power structures, territorial control, and systemic ideologies shape the emotional and physical body.
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