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Thank you to all the participants of Diasporas Now x : MIXER at Institute of Contemporary ArtsThis “speed dating”-style ...
10/04/2026

Thank you to all the participants of Diasporas Now x : MIXER at Institute of Contemporary Arts

This “speed dating”-style event matched artists with representatives from Youth Music and Arts Council England, offering a chance to pitch projects directly to funders with real-time feedback

A panel of musicians hinako omori GAIKA and RIEKO also offered insight on how to trailblaze unique, multidisciplinary careers – followed by DJ sets from Youth Music’s Michael Diamond

This gathering held space for intentional conversations on how to co-create music ecosystems that are truly diverse and community-centred

Diasporas Now x PRS Foundation MIXER is part of ICA Speaking Futures x Diasporas Now – co-programmed by the ICA’s collective-in-residence, live art platform Diasporas Now

Photography by Detroit Law

Special thank you to Joe Frankland

𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙭 𝘿𝙞𝙖𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙨 𝙉𝙤𝙬 artist talk series closed with a rare first-time conversation between artists and filmm...
07/04/2026

𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙭 𝘿𝙞𝙖𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙨 𝙉𝙤𝙬 artist talk series closed with a rare first-time conversation between artists and filmmakers John Akomfrah (Smoking Dogs Films) and Julianknxx (jυlιanĸnxх) at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts).

Moving between film, archive and lived experience, the conversation unfolded around memory, oral history and unique visual languages, sharing how both artists use moving images to tell powerful human stories that question the structures and systems we exist within. The discussion was chaired by Dominique Heyse-Moore (), Senior Curator of Contemporary British Art at Tate Britain.

𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝓍 𝘿𝙞𝙖𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙨 𝙉𝙤𝙬 is a year-long cross-cultural programme at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, led by collective-in-residence Diasporas Now (2025-26), featuring performances, talks and workshops, curated by Diaspora Now and Hannah Geddes (Hannah Geddes).

Image courtesy of Diasporas Now

Look back to Diasporas Now artist takeover in March, a finale of our yearlong collective residency at the ICA (). We bro...
03/04/2026

Look back to Diasporas Now artist takeover in March, a finale of our yearlong collective residency at the ICA (). We brought together our community and artist peers from across the year to celebrate this wonderful journey. Thank you all for coming and joining us for this special moment. More to come.

𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙭 𝘿𝙞𝙖𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙨 𝙉𝙤𝙬 is a year-long cross-cultural programme at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, led by collective-in-residence Diasporas Now (2025-26), featuring performances, talks and artist collaborations. The programme is co-curated with Hannah Geddes.

Images by George Brown

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Introducing NextGen artist .sound for x MIXER at on 29/3 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪...
26/03/2026

Introducing NextGen artist .sound for x MIXER at on 29/3

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘦𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧

Michael Diamond is a Kerala-born electronic jazz musician and founder of label , whose exploratory work moves across genres while retaining his distinctive melodic and harmonic charm. He has released several critically acclaimed records and performed at leading clubs, festivals and radio stations globally

Diasporas Now x PRS Foundation MIXER is an opportunity to gain insight into resourcing cultural movements between art and experimental music – featuring a panel of artists and ’s , alongside representatives from and

The panel will be followed by breakout groups to matchmake artists to funders, and an informal networking session set to DJ sets from NexGen artist .sound

We invite you to join the conversation by pitching your own projects to fund, and sharing your ideas on how to co-create a music ecosystem that is truly diverse and community-centred – set in the iconic space of the theatre

📌 Sun 29 Mar, 3-6pm
🔗 Book now via the link in bio

Diasporas Now x PRS Foundation MIXER is part of ICA Speaking Futures x Diasporas Now – co-programmed by the ICA’s collective-in-residence, live art platform Diasporas Now

Introducing for x MIXER at on 29/3 Hinako Omori is a Japanese artist offering immersive sonic architectures and envi...
20/03/2026

Introducing for x MIXER at on 29/3

Hinako Omori is a Japanese artist offering immersive sonic architectures and environments in which to process and access emotional states through binaural recording or multi-channel installation, across ambient synthesizer and vocal music, classical arrangement and composition

Diasporas Now x PRS Foundation MIXER is an opportunity to gain insight into resourcing cultural movements between art and experimental music – featuring a panel of artists and ’s , alongside representatives from and

The panel will be followed by breakout groups to matchmake artists to funders, and an informal networking session set to DJ sets from NexGen artist .sound

We invite you to join the conversation by pitching your own projects to fund, and sharing your ideas on how to co-create a music ecosystem that is truly diverse and community-centred – set in the iconic space of the theatre

📌 Sun 29 Mar, 3-6pm
🔗 Book now via the link in bio

Diasporas Now x PRS Foundation MIXER is part of ICA Speaking Futures x Diasporas Now – co-programmed by the ICA’s collective-in-residence, live art platform Diasporas Now

Photo credit:

Introducing for x MIXER at on 29/3 GAIKA is a multidisciplinary artist working across sound, installation, performan...
19/03/2026

Introducing for x MIXER at on 29/3

GAIKA is a multidisciplinary artist working across sound, installation, performance, sculpture, and text. Emerging from London’s electronic underground, his practice explores the politics of urbanisation, diaspora, surveillance, and memory

Diasporas Now x PRS Foundation MIXER is an opportunity to gain insight into resourcing cultural movements between art and experimental music – featuring a panel of artists and ’s , alongside representatives from and

The panel will be followed by breakout groups to matchmake artists to funders, and an informal networking session set to DJ sets from NexGen artist .sound

We invite you to join the conversation by pitching your own projects to fund, and sharing your ideas on how to co-create a music ecosystem that is truly diverse and community-centred – set in the iconic space of the theatre

📌 Sun 29 Mar, 3-6pm
🔗 Book now via the link in bio

Diasporas Now x PRS Foundation MIXER is part of ICA Speaking Futures x Diasporas Now – co-programmed by the ICA’s collective-in-residence, live art platform Diasporas Now

Photo credit:

x present MIXER at on 29/3 This event is an opportunity to gain insight into resourcing cultural movements between ar...
17/03/2026

x present MIXER at on 29/3 

This event is an opportunity to gain insight into resourcing cultural movements between art and experimental music  – featuring a panel of artists and ’s , alongside representatives from and

The panel will be followed by breakout groups to matchmake artists to funders, and an informal networking session set to DJ sets from NexGen artist .sound

We invite you to join the conversation by pitching your own projects to fund, and sharing your ideas on how to co-create a music ecosystem that is truly diverse and community-centred – set in the iconic space of the theatre 

📌 Sun 29 Mar, 3-6pm
🔗 Book now via the link in bio

Diasporas Now x PRS Foundation MIXER is part of ICA Speaking Futures x Diasporas Now – co-programmed by the ICA’s collective-in-residence, live art platform Diasporas Now 

Photo credits: 

for x by .ahmed 

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Taking over decks and percussion is and for ’s takeover Berlin-based, Ecuadorian-American DJ and post-discipline rese...
06/03/2026

Taking over decks and percussion is and for ’s takeover

Berlin-based, Ecuadorian-American DJ and post-discipline research artist softchaos will collaborate with and for a rare set combining digital-live hybrid drumming to improvised, multi-instrumental soundscapes and performance art

To close the night, from B.O.S.S. will be DJing for the closing celebration of Diasporas Now’s artist takeover event, spotlighting Black, q***r/trans electronic music front and centre 🔊

📌 Sat 7 Mar, 3pm–late

softchaos photo credit:

’s offers a special edition of ’s Sampler Mixtape on for their collective residency takeover Featuring live recording...
06/03/2026

’s offers a special edition of ’s Sampler Mixtape on for their collective residency takeover

Featuring live recordings and unreleased tracks by and for Diasporas Now’s extended community, this genre-defying curation blends experimental production with avant-classical composition – a cross-disciplinary expression of visceral lament, q***r desire, and diasporic futures. This mixtape also features snippets from the live art collective’s previous panel talk at the Institute of Contemporary Arts on bridging art and music, ahead of their takeover on 7 March

Listen live on resonancefm.com today at noon, or archived via ’s link in bio

Track order:

Intro (for at ) – .r.a.k.i
Love (instrumental intro) –
Fruit – (releasing 13/3 via )
Human Puzzle (for at ) –
Prelude (live at ) –
Sounding Futures pt.1 (for live at ) – .asisa
Dejemos al Menos Cantos (for live at ) – .asisa
Cenote Ring (for with at ) –
Che Si Può Fare –
Blue (for the x New Music Commissioning Programme)
Never Let (acoustic) –
Pendulum (intro and extended remix for with live at ) – .r.a.k.i .asisa
Sounding Futures pt.2 (for live at ) – .asisa
Outro (for at ) – .r.a.k.i

Photo by .ahmed

broadcast

Save the schedule for the Diasporas Now takeover at the ICA (). We can’t wait to have you sharing and celebrating with o...
05/03/2026

Save the schedule for the Diasporas Now takeover at the ICA (). We can’t wait to have you sharing and celebrating with our artists, collaborators and community from the whole year journey and the ꜱᴘᴇᴀᴋɪɴɢ ꜰᴜᴛᴜʀᴇꜱ programme, in response to the collective’s notion of ‘home’.

📌 Sat 7 Mar, 3pm–late
🔗 Book now via the link in bio

3PM
Diasporas Now Round Table & Live Broadcast with Montez Press Radio

4:30PM
Live Performances (20 minutes each)
Paola Estrella x Juliet Lozano
RIEKO × softchaos
Lulu Wang
SERAFINE1369 x Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome
BULLYACHE

7PM onwards
DJ Set: Black Obsidian Sound System

All day

Screenings
Julianknxx
Ivan Michael Blackstock
Helen Cammock
Joshua Woolford
RESOLVE Collective

Installations
Furmaan Ahmed

ICA Creatives Performance and Screenings

Curated and programmed by Diasporas Now and Hannah Geddes

Image by Furmaan Ahmed

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Screening Talks broadcast dj

Dancer, artist and body-focused researcher SERAFINE1369 () will present ‘Chorus (a fragment)’ for ’s artist takeover on...
04/03/2026

Dancer, artist and body-focused researcher SERAFINE1369 () will present ‘Chorus (a fragment)’ for ’s artist takeover on 7/3 at .

A dancer’s art is built on an attitude of listening, with their whole being. You are a diviner and you cast your sticks and get no answer. You cast them again, but still no answer. Continuous oscillation without any resolution is what this process is all about. You don’t build on security. You risk. Everything is a risk. You use every part of anything you remember as part of the present, the now. The journey is the destination.

[Text from Martha Graham & Deborah Hay]

Concept SERAFINE1369

Performance by SERAFINE1369 in collaboration with Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome ()

Sound Score Vivienne Griffin & Billy Easter, remix by Josh Anio Grigg

📌 Sat 7 Mar, 3pm–late
🔗 Book now via the link in bio

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