Featuring The Living and the Dead Ensemble; Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro; Bambii and Christelle Oyiri
The 22nd Serpentine Pavilion, by Lina Ghotmeh – Architecture
August – October 2023
Serpentine is thrilled to announce the return of Park Nights, its experimental, interdisciplinary, live programme sited within the annual architectural commission, the 22nd Serpentine Pavilion designed by Lina Ghotmeh.
Bringing together multi-disciplinary artists, and featuring rave music, performance installations, poetry and dance, the exciting live programme will invite audiences to engage, reflect, and connect. Park Nights runs from August to October.
PARK NIGHTS 2023
· Friday 25 August, 8pm, The Living and the Dead Ensemble
· Friday 15 September, 8pm, Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro
· Friday 29 September, 8pm, Bambii
· Friday 6 October, 8pm, Christelle Oyiri
· Friday 13 October, details to be announced soon
Friday 25 August 2023, 8pm
The Ensemble will present a rendition of their performance installation The Wake. Night has fallen on a world on fire. Demonstrations, earthquakes, forest fires, fire are everywhere. The Wake is a performance that reweaves a fragmented geography, a call, a burning manifesto for a possible future.
The Living and the Dead Ensemble are a group of artists, performers and poets from Haiti, France and the United Kingdom. They initially came together in Haiti 2017 to produce the Haitian Creole translation and performance of the play Monsieur Toussaint by Édouard Glissant. With texts, performances, films and installations, The Ensemble explores different ways of telling the history and the present from a Caribbean perspective.
Friday 15 September, 8pm
In September, visual artist, writer, and psychologist Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro will present a new performance and installation which explores ritual, dance and celebration in both Afro-Brazilian and Western cultures. Bringing together collaborators from different backgrounds, Vitorino Brasileiro will explore dance as a connective and healing practice that allows us to consider the relationships between interspecific spirituality and different forms of life.
Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro is currently featured in Third World: The Bottom Dimension, an exhibition, a video game and web3 tokens powered by Tezos at Serpentine North. The project is conceptualised by Brazilian artist Gabriel Massan in collaboration with invited interdisciplinary artists Novíssimo Edgar, and vocalist and music producer LYZZA.
Presented at Serpentine North from 23 June to 22 October 2023, the exhibition extends the ideas that have driven the creation and development of the mirroring video game. It offers audiences an opportunity to play the game in a communal setting around site-specific set design, sculptures, sound and films.
Friday 29 September, 8pm
As part of Park Nights 2023, Serpentine is pleased to present an evening of music with internationally acclaimed Producer and DJ Bambii.
Bambii is Toronto-based and known for her genre-spanning sets which embrace the spirit of dance and rave culture and open new paths for the free exploration of music.
Whether online or on dancefloors, her music celebrates Black diasporic dance music’s ever-expanding reach, and the relationships it forges between individuals, cultures and spaces. She has spent the last few years touring the world as a solo artist as well as joining forces with well-known musicians, including Mykki Blanco, Kelela and BbyMutha. Her newest EP Infinity Club, released on 4 August 2023, features contributions from artists Lady Lykez, Aluna, Sydanie, Lamsi, and Ragz Originale.
Friday 6 October, 8pm, Christelle Oyiri
In October, Christelle Oyiri / CRYSTALLMESS will present a live iteration of her upcoming record with invited collaborators and musical guests.
Christelle Oyiri is a Paris based artist and filmmaker. She is also known as DJ and electronic music producer CRYSTALLMESS and has performed around the world under this moniker. Oyiri engages with issues related to the collective memory of both forgotten and well-known mythologies, be they ancient or ultra-modern.
