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Subtexts: Elemental

When: Thursday, April 9, 2026, 9:35 AM - 9:35 AM
Where: Whitechapel Gallery, Off-campus

Speaker: Mengting Zhuo, Stephen Watts, Ayesha Hameed

An evening of sound, poetry, and performance that returns to the elemental, to explore what remains after so much has been lost, abandoned, or destroyed. 

An evening of sound, poetry, and performance that returns to the elemental, to explore what remains after so much has been lost, abandoned, or destroyed.  

Rather than asking ‘why write’ or ‘why make art’ after catastrophes (historical, ecological, psychic), we admit the inevitability of poetry and art and find out what will be externalised through that impulse or reflex. What may be enabled or summoned or witnessed?  

Featuring artists and writers Mengting Zhuo, Stephen Watts, and Ayesha Hameed in collaboration with Matt Cargill. Organised in partnership with the Centre for Contemporary Writing at Queen Mary, University of London and Whitechapel Gallery.

Refreshments will be provided. 

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