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02:33 On Performance

Artists reflect on what drives them to perform and how movement impacts them.

How does performance affect you? We spoke to several artists who performed at the 2024 edition of AGM at Somerset House Studios, spanning movement, music, installation and poetry. Alongside footage of their work, Noah Bador, Nina Davies and Florance Peake reflect on their relationship with performance as a practice; how it makes them feel, how they connect with audiences and what it allows them to explore.

It's almost like the experience you have at a religious ceremony
Florence Peake

Credits

    Featured Interviews:

    Noah Bador
    Nina Davies
    Florence Peake

    Featured Performances:

    Noah Bador
    Adam Christensen
    Nina Davies
    Harun Morrison
    Somerset House Choir
    Sunun and Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom
    Florence Peake and Eve Stainton
    Violet Savage

    Directed & Edited by:

    Yvonne Zhang

    Shot by:

    Anna Dobos & Yvonne Zhang

    Producer:

    Helena Geilinger

    Executive Producer:

    Eleanor Ritter-Scott

    Music:

    From AGM 2024 performances by Nina Davies and Sunun and Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom

    AGM is an annual Somerset House Studios event, with programme spanning movement, music, installation and poetry in a constellation of stagings across Somerset House’s New Wing.

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