Adults Late: Forbidden Territories
06 Sep 2025 - 06 Sep 2025
Join us for an adults-only chance to look around our major 'Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes' exhibition, before it comes to an end on Sunday 7 September! The exhibition includes some of the 20th century's greatest artists including Salvador Dalí, Eileen Agar, Max Ernst, Henry Moore and Lee Miller. Come in and take a look around after-hours and experience these amazing works of art before they leave the UK and head to the next destination on their international tour. SOAK Live Art CIC will be presenting an evening of performance with live art and music by artists William Luz, Julia Pond, Giorgia Ciampi Tsolaki and John Matthias. See below for performance times. If you really want to make an evening of it, why not treat yourself to something delicious from The Box Kitchen & Bar's special menu? Table reservations are advised. Please contact [email protected] if you'd like to reserve a table.
The galleries will be open between 6-8pm for you to enjoy a 'last chance to see' Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes'.
We have some fantastic performances in North Hall and South Hall for you to enjoy, which have been curated by SOAK Live Art CIC and starting from 6.30pm.
The Box Kitchen & Bar will be serving a special tapas menu. Last food orders will be at 9pm. We'd recommend booking a table if you're attending the event and would like to dine with us. Please email [email protected] so that we can book you in.
SOAK performances running order (timings are approximate).
SOAK and The Box are proud to present an evening of performance to celebrate the exhibition ‘Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes’. Drawing inspiration from the exhibition themes, the event will create a collaborative space for cultural expression across multiple art forms, featuring live drawing, live art and music by artists William Luz, Julia Pond, Giorgia Ciampi Tsolaki and John Matthias.
6.30pm: William Luz, North Hall
‘Drawing the Curtains’ is a workshop of a performance - or performance of a workshop - which plays with the idea of surreal drawing and drawing curtains through participation. ‘Drawing on Performance' is a performance/lecture of/on drawing: musing and sharing ideas on the techniques, position and philosophy of drawing through voice, sound and the act of drawing itself. Drawing as thinking, drawing as feeling, drawing as sensing, drawing as not drawing.
7pm: Giorgia Ciampi Tsolaki, North Hall Giorgia will be performing the Spiral, a poetic solo performance that blends physical theatre, storytelling, folk song and immersive sound by Kerry Priest. Drawing from Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics anthology, this absurd piece takes you on an imaginative journey, searching for a sense of identity and belonging through the unlikely perspective of a self-conscious, extra-sensitive wet pulp
8.30pm: Julia Pond, South Hall
Julia Pond's work explores intersections between dance and political economics through performance and research. The Manager(festo) is a deep dive like no other into performing productively, day after day after day after day. Combining dance, bread dough, and powerpoint, this solo presentation by the CEO of BRED (@bred.company), a fictional company, slowly cracks the veneer of corporate lingo to reveal a doughier, more precarious side to work/life balance.
9pm: John Matthias, South Hall
John will perform a piece for solo amplified violin and voice drawn from his recent Enriched Audiobook of 'A Wild and True Relation' by Kim Sherwood. The score explores maritime stories and landscapes and links 18th century Devon smugglers to 21st century audiobook experimentation.