A public evening of food, music, conversation & performance with Ingrid Pollard, ruangrupa, Katherine McKittrick and Afterall
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Join us for Day 1 of Disobedient Science, a 2-day gathering at Pelican House and Slade School of Fine Art, hosted by Radical Ecology in partnership with UCL, LAHP and Afterall Research Centre on 7-8 May 2026. The programme opens pathways for relational practices in art and activism that move beyond inherited scripts of colonial knowledge production and scientific rationalism, revealing instead how thinking and making are never disembodied, and how lived time and space are touched by scales both intimate and immense: geologic, historic, microscopic and planetary.
The evening begins with a relaxed sharing of food and music with Iswanto Hartono from Jakarta-based art collective ruangrupa and Afterall Research Centre, to mark the launch of How to Pin Down Smoke: ruangrupa since 2000, an expansive reflection on collective artistic practice and world-making. This will be followed by Dreaming Aesthetics, a conversation between artist Ingrid Pollard and writer, academic and editor Katherine McKittrick on Black time, dreaming and the ongoing, liberatory practice of tending to place, story and land. The night concludes with a performance by sound-artist Dirar Kalash, connecting collective listening practices to the politics of space and time in Palestine.
Find details about the extended programme here.