Performance: 'Macrocosmic Futures', Diasporas Now
Diasporas Now, in partnership with Spike Island, the V&A, South London Gallery and Primary, present a national tour of performances.
Diasporas Now, in partnership with Spike Island, the V&A, South London Gallery 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.
In the second iteration of the Diasporas Now Tour, Spike Island are delighted to host three commissioned performances by artists Hannan Jones, Emma Korantema and Hongxi Li, who will explore alter egos, deep time, and deep listening: a journey from Black philosophical and Sino-capitalist critique, through musique concrète into club driven catharsis. Following the performances, a DJ set will end the night and a bar is available for refreshments.
Schedule:
6.30pm – Performance by Hongxi Li (25 minutes)
7.15pm – Performance by Hannan Jones (45 minutes)
8.15pm – Performance by Emma Korantema (45 minutes)
9pm – DJ set (DJ to be announced)
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?
