Diasporas Now U.K. Tour 2025-2026
Macrocosmic Futures
South London Gallery – 3 June
Diasporas Now, in partnership with South London Gallery, the V&A, 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 third iteration of the Diasporas Now Tour will take place at South London Gallery on June 3 at 6.30 pm. The line-up includes Hannan Jones, Emma Korantema, Tif Wellington and Omi.
Date: June 3
Time: 6.30 pm
Location: South London Gallery, 65 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UH
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.
Tif Wellington 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.
Omí is a musician, transdisciplinary artist and cultural producer of Jamaican-British, Italian and Brazilian heritage. They trained academically in classical piano, composition and sound design. Their practice brings together the attention to sound as an organic system, and the interest in sonic complexity, with the critical fabulations of a queer black diasporic body. Stemming from both research work, craft, ancestral technologies and instinct, their work is an intersection of music, sound art and body performance, blossoming into many other medias, such as dance, film, installation and visual. With their practice they aim at exploring what emerges of our own histories as Afro-diasporic bodies in Western dominated contexts such as that of experimental performative music, focusing on decolonial and contracolonial approaches, delving into matters of refraction of identity and memory, both personal and collective, to celebrate and critically engage their community.
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