Saturday 6th September 2025, 11am – 6pm
Chisenhale Dance Space 64-84 Chisenhale Rd, Bow, London E3 5QZ
Free To Attend, Lunch & Refreshments provided
A Performance Platform event, featuring invited artists projects Bbeyond, tactileBosch, SITE, Tempting Failure and OTHER, hosted by Chisenhale Dance Space.
You are cordially invited to join us for ‘GATHERING’, an artist led assembly of dynamic internationally active performance artists/organisers, intended to acknowledge and build upon a legacy of sustained independent artist led activity, dialogues and networks.
The day will feature presentations and workshops by Bbeyond, tactileBOSCH, SITE, Tempting Failure & OTHER, collective improvisation, informal networking and a celebration of artist led performance art culture.
To attend talks, workshops and participate in the collective improvisation, please email Performance Platform to reserve a place: info@performanceplatform.org
Information About Participating Groups
Bbeyond is committed to promoting the practice of performance art and artists in Northern Ireland and further afield. Our aim is to raise people’s consciousness of live/performance art as being integral to the world in and around us, inspiring reflection and enriching lived experience. We host artists of international reputation throughout the performance art world and encourage newer artists to experience performance art practices for themselves. Bbeyond encourages greater access to and appreciation of this visually based art form, through facilitating modes of active private/public participation, allowing people from all sectors of society, not just the traditional arts, to experience and enjoy performance art directly.
tactileBOSCH initiates experimental and alternative exhibition spaces and coordinates innovative and groundbreaking shows. We nurture a progressive, far-reaching and edgy performance art and conceptual philosophy.
SITE invites artists to create collaborative site responsive Performance Art in locations of socio-historic, architectural and ecological interest, through actions, gestures and intervention.
Each session takes place at a different location and is open to all artists working in, or interested in developing collaborative Performance Art practices.
SITE’s aim is to hold space for artists from different backgrounds and experiences to come together and support one another to share practices, queer our surroundings and find ways of working eco-conciously and with empathy to our environment.
Tempting Failure is an international platform for performance art, noise, sonic art, and transgressive visual art practices, founded in 2012. Curated across community art spaces, unconventional venues, and civic sites—from council chambers and cinemas to shopping centres, an abandoned police station, and other historic landmarks—it has become renowned for commissioning radical, risk-taking work that challenges dominant narratives and amplifies marginalised voices. Dedicated to elevating Trans+, queer, disabled, and global majority artists, Tempting Failure champions the politically urgent and socially engaged while also producing programmes in professional development, community outreach, and education. To date, it has supported over 800 artists worldwide, fostering dialogue at the intersections of art, activism, and lived experience. In the aftermath of the pandemic, Tempting Failure has been navigating themes of trauma and absence, asking what is needed now: what is the next step in producing work while prioritising collective wellbeing. Its practices are inclusive, non-exclusive, and rooted in care—embracing human fallibility and celebrating shared failure as much as shared success. At its core, TF believes no one is an expert; instead, we learn, risk, fail, succeed and grow together.
OTHER is a UK based performance artist / organisers collective. It’s members are living and working at the intersection of being Neuro-divergent, Disabled Queer survivors. Marginalised identity and experience and self-actualisation inform their work and this necessitates that they create safe, comfortable, supportive environments within which to initiate and develop, perform, tour, document, exhibit, and disseminate work. They work with mutual respect and compassion for themselves, each other, those they work with and their audiences. They understand making performance art as something they do to make sense of their experiences for themselves and others, to learn, transform, and find meaning.
Performance Platform is an artist led organisation focused on showcasing live Performance Art in London. It’s also a node in a national/international network of performance artists/allies/collaborators and partners, and a hub for peer to peer learning, research, networking and development. We support new, experimental, and challenging Performance Art whilst winning wider audiences. Performance Platform is a diverse led organisation, and this lived experience informs our pragmatic grounded approach to addressing intersectional barriers to inclusion and participation.
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