Special Event

Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom: Performance

18 October 2025
1-5pm
Free to all

Artist Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom presents a new sound, performance installation, After: Compliments (defrost version 2025).

A single brass player will play live over a period of four hours, responding in real time to the movements of the audience. At the centre of the room, an ice sculpture melts over time.

The shape-shifting nature of this work interrogates ideas of power and control, ownership and ephemerality, documentation and visibility. Ultimately, the piece asks: what does it mean to own and accumulate knowledge, and how do current structures perpetuate systems of ownership?

Boakye-Yiadom works in series, with each new piece referencing and sometimes combining outcomes from previous works. He says “This piece is a mediation on impermanence, building on a series of performances titled Compliments that have been shown over the last three years”.

This performance is free and drop-in.

ABOUT APPAU JNR BOAKYE-YIADOM

Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom works across multimedia installation and performance, combining ready-made objects, sculpture, photography sound, archive and self produced moving image to create installations with multi-layered references, highlighting cultural collision. He incorporates snippets of film footage and fragments of sound into works, as well as collaborations with musicians for live improvisation.

ACCESS

  • The room will be dark.

  • This is a sound performance, which may include loud noises and music.

  • Wheelchair Access and Accessible Toilets are available at this site.

  • Please let us know if you have any additional access needs at mail@southlondongallery.org

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