Damsel Elysium x Friday Late: The Performative Object

Inspired by Martin Sigler’s perspective-shifting text “I am The Performative Object,” this Friday Late, curated by performance artist and composer Damsel Elysium, brings forth a night of Black diasporic surrealist artists.

+44 (0)20 7942 2000
  • Friday, 28 August 2026

  • V&A South Kensington

    Cromwell Road
    London, SW7 2RL
  • Free event

Live performance, experimental play, quantum listening, and the exploration of hybridity allows us into a sacred, sensuous, and tactile experience of Blackness. Through metamorphosis we overcome alienation and step into objective reality, creating a space in which the in-between becomes lucid.

Full line-up to be announced 
Header image: Olivia Brissett