Adelita Husni-Bey reads from the radical poetry of Ferruccio Brugnaro, an Italian poet and factory worker in a chemical plant in the 1970s, with an urgent call to arms for activism and community.

Husni-Bey is an Italian-Libyan artist and pedagogue whose practice is grounded in anarcho-collectivism, theatre and legal anthropology.

Adelita Husni-Bey

Adelita Husni Bey 

Radical dreaming, pleasure activism and forging new worlds with adrienne maree brown and Bayo Akomolafe.

Informed by decades of movement facilitation, somatics, science fiction scholarship and doula work, adrienne maree brown has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Loving Correction as ideas and practices for transformation. adrienne is the NYT-bestselling author/editor of several published texts, a ritual singer-songwriter, co-generator of the Lineages of Change Tarot Deck, and co-creator/host of How to Survive the End of the World podcast with Autumn Brown.


adrienne maree brown (she/they) is growing a garden of healing ideas. Informed by decades of movement facilitation, somatics, science fiction scholarship and doula work, adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Loving Correction as ideas and practices for transformation. adrienneis the NYT-bestselling author/editor of several published texts, a ritual singer-songwriter, co-generator of the Lineages of Change Tarot Deck, and co-creator/host of How to Survive the End of the World podcast with Autumn Brown. adrienne's latest books Loving Corrections and Ancestors are now available from AK Press.

adrienne maree brown 

adrienne maree brown x Bayo Akomolafe

Aja Barber is one of the panellists on After Illusions: Habitable Futures, the final of three live conversations which bring together a group of guests from different fields to debate urgent topics.

Barber is a writer and sustainability consultant focused on ethical fashion, environmental justice, and the rights of garment workers.

Aja Barber

After Illusions: Habitable Futures

Alia Al Ghussain is one of the panellists on After Illusions: Invisible Systems, part of a series of three live conversations which bring together a group of guests from different fields to debate urgent topics.

Al Ghussain is a human rights researcher at Amnesty International focusing on Big Tech accountability and the impacts of algorithmic systems.

Alia Al Ghussain

After Illusions: Invisible Systems

American Artist and Tommy Martinez share their Integrity Protocol/Lower Limb Lecture - a solitary voice accompanied by synth drones contends with complex emotional expectations.

American Artist is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist whose work challenges the intersections of race, technology, and identity in the digital age. Through sculpture, video, performance, and digital media, their practice critiques systemic inequities while offering nuanced reflections on power, surveillance, and the Black radical tradition.

American Artist

Covert military experiments, altered states, and collective consciousness are woven together in a thrilling fast-paced radio drama by Andrea Khôra, that draws on material from psychedelic neuroscience, the CIA archives, and speculative fiction. Music and sound by Tiiva.

Khôra is an artist and researcher based in London. Her work centres around the malleability of reality and explores psychedelics, technology, and institutional power.

Andrea Khôra

talk was originally held at Goldsmiths Center for Contemporary Art, London on 18th June 2025. The event was co-curated by Natasha Hoare and Mariana Lemos. 

is an ongoing event series that centres on ill health as a category of experience that provokes diverse linguistic and visual forms.

Anne Boyer is a poet and essayist whose work explores literature as an instrument for thinking about experiences often excluded from literature, particularly those that gather around gender, class, labour, and illness.

Anne Boyer

Aura Satz and Irene Revell from the Pre-emptive listening project listen to the sounds of the ‘new sirens’. What does the traditional alarm for man-made disasters mean and sound like when the crises facing us are continuous, and interconnected? Includes excerpts of specially-commissioned compositions from Debit, Evelyn Glennie, Laurie Spiegel and David Toop, and spoken word interviews by Daphne Carr, Evelyn Glennie and Hillel Schwartz.

Satz is a London-based visual artist whose work encompasses film, performance and sculpture and emphasizes the complex relationship between humans and machines.

Aura Satz

A selection of episodes from the archive of Brown Atlantis Radio featuring Dilip Menon, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuo, Shuddhabrata Sengupta and Jol Thoms, who reads from the final diary of Hiba Abu Nada, a writer from Gaza, from the project Passages Through Genocide.

Radio Brown Atlantis is a project by the artist and writer Ayesha Hameed. The project takes the shape of an experimental radio program that invites practitioners in the field of sonic art, music and performative thought aiming at exploring the entanglements between Brown and Black bodies from the African diaspora, Indigenous peoples from South America and South Asians displaced by indenture, connected through the experience of oceanic colonial routes. The radio program will engage in spontaneous conversations, shaped by music, literature, sonic art and storytelling.

Ayesha Hameed / Brown Atlantis Radio

As day bleeds into night, Basyma Saad dances around shadows and ghostly echoes in a reading of her short story, ‘Again the Corpse’, and in an interview talks of finding balance between grief for what is lost and dreams of new futures.

Saad is an artist and writer born in Beirut. Her work explores notions of historical rupture, spontaneity, and surplus, through film, performance, and sculpture, alongside essays and fiction.

Basyma Saad

Bayo Akomolafe is a philosopher, writer, activist, professor of psychology, and executive director of the Emergence Network.

Bayo Akomolafe

Brian Eno dreams of a world which listens to the quiet voices and understands that the future is made in the present.

Eno is a musician, producer, visual artist and activist first came to international prominence in the early seventies as a founding member of British band, Roxy Music, followed by a series of solo albums and collaborations.

Brian Eno

In this new radio adaptation, Cécile B. Evans reimagines French surrealist Antonin Artaud’s play ‘Spurt of Blood’ (1925) on its 100th anniversary. The play, consisting of a few short pages of chaotic action and impossible stage directions, addresses the absurd extremes of human experience through love, violence and death.

Evans draws on the seemingly timeless quality of the play, as a reflection of our perpetual state of collective witness and containing foresight of our fragmented contemporary existence. A cacophony of voices, sound effects and a symphonic soundtrack render the actionas a collision of intimacy and catastrophe. The play is punctuated by Evans’ directorial voice, reflecting on the intensity and difficulty of interpreting Artaud’s script.

Evans is an American-Belgian artist living and working in La Plaine Saint Denis. Evans’ work examines the value of emotion and its rebellion as it comes into contact with ideological, physical, and technological structures. 

Cécile B. Evans

Cecilia Vicuña’s new work for radio centres around an improvised poem with music by ongoing collaborators pianist Ricardo Gallo, percussionist Satoshi Takeishi and sound artist Daniel Neumann. The poem is a meditation on how our global situation today echoes the story told by the ancient Popol Vuh: the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life, composed during the Maya Late Classic Period (600-900 CE).The name Popol Vuh translates as ‘Book of the Community’ or ‘Book of Counsel’ and is the foundational sacred narrative of the Kʼicheʼ people.

Drawing on Vicuña’s radical poetry and pioneering performances, the poem and sound improvisation takes on a formless, fluid energy; shaped through a process of reciprocity between Vicuña’s words and thoughts, and the feelings and sounds arising from the musicians.

Cecilia Vicuña: poetry and chants
Ricardo Gallo: piano, rhodes, flutes, and production
Satoshi Takeishi: percussion
Daniel Neumann: prepared bass, mixing

Cecilia Vicuña is visual artist, poet, and activist.

Cecilia Vicuña

Charlie Fox finds joy in the psychedelic language and trippy form of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, sharing a few of his favourite extracts, and how Joyce’s writing feels like dreaming.

Fox is a writer who lives in London. He was born in 1991. His work has appeared in many publications including frieze, Cabinet, Sight & Sound, ArtReview, The Wire and The White Review.

Charlie Fox

Cuthwulf Eileen Myles calls for a one-state solution in the Middle East and reads from the poetry of Batool Abu Akleen — a 20 year old poet documenting the genocide in Gaza.

Myles is a poet, novelist & art journalist, living in New York and Marfa, TX.

Cuthwulf Eileen Myles

Host of After Illusions, a series of three live conversations which bring together a group of guests from different fields to debate urgent topics from the perspective of our current reality, in the aftermath of broken illusions.

After Illusions: Power & Deception - Live Talk
12 August 2025, 19:00 – 20:00

After Illusions: Future Systems – Live Talk
19 August 2025, 19:00 – 20:00

After Illusions: Habitable Futures – Live Talk
2 September 2025, 19:00 – 20:00

Gebrial is an academic, and broadcaster whose work examines how race, capitalism, and empire shape global and domestic inequalities.

Dalia Gebrial

After Illusions: Power & Deception 

David Wengrow is one of the panellists on After Illusions: Habitable Futures, the final of three live conversations which bring together a group of guests from different fields to debate urgent topics.

Wengrow is Professor of Comparative Archaeology at University College London whose work rethinks human history, culture, and inequality through groundbreaking research and writing.

David Wengrow

Duval Timothy is a multi-disciplinary artist working and living between London, UK and Freetown, Sierra Leone. His work includes music, painting, photography, sculpture, design, food, video and textiles.

Duval Timothy

The team at Ear Hustle share two unexpected and surprising dream episodes from their award-winning podcast's archive.

Ear Hustle launched in 2017 as the first podcast created and produced in California’s San Quentin State Prison, shared by those living it. Co-founded by Bay Area artist Nigel Poor alongside Earlonne Woods and Antwan Williams — who were incarcerated at the time — the podcast now tells stories from inside prison and from the outside, post-incarceration.

Production team credit: Earlonne Woods, Nigel Poor, Rhashiyd Zinnamon, DerrellSadiq Davis, Tam Nguyen, Lee Jaspar, David Jassy, and Antwan William.

Ear Hustle

Enter a never-ending dream loop with two tracks from their 2024 album, SOLO THROAT.

Elaine Mitchener is a British Afro-Caribbean vocalist, movement artist and composer working between contemporary/experimental new music, free improvisation and visual art.

Elaine Mitchener

For Dream radio, Emily LaBarge tiptoes between the floating hazy worlds of insomnia and dreaming in a reading from her forthcoming book, Dog Days, and asks: when insomnia allows you to see what others can’t, what does a lack of sleep reveal about the world – and yourself?

LaBarge is a Canadian writer based in London, published in Granta, London Review of Books, Frieze, and The Paris Review, among other publications. Her first book, Dog Days, will be published in October 2025.

Emily LaBarge

Farhana Yamin is one of the panellists on After Illusions: Power and Deception, the first of three live conversations which bring together a group of guests from different fields to debate urgent topics.

Yamin is a leading climate justice lawyer and activist with decades of experience in global climate negotiations and equity-focused initiatives. 

Farhana Yamin

‘Pick flowers… Write poems… Imagine having different coloured eyes… Smile backwards….’ What otherworldly things might you discover in felicita’s dream mix?

felicita is an experimental composer, producer, and multidisciplinary artist.

felicita

Primal screams, protests and collective spirit vibrate in the multi-textured field recordings of global sound project and podcast, Field Recordings.

Field Recordings is a podcast where audio-makers stand silently in fields (or things that could be broadly interpreted as fields). It was founded by Eleanor McDowell. 

Featuring work by: Eleanor McDowall and Kristina Loring. 

Field Recordings Podcast

Gary Stevenson is one of the panellists on After Illusions: Invisible Systems, part of a series of three live conversations which bring together a group of guests from different fields to debate urgent topics.

Stevenson is a former trader turned economist and activist, using media platforms to campaign against wealth inequality. 

Gary Stevenson

Join George Taxidis, lecturer in psychosocial studies, psychodynamic psychotherapy and Jungian psychology at Goldsmiths, and a group of therapy students and recent graduates as they explore the dreaming mind in a way that resists pinning down definitive meanings.

Rooted in the method of Social Dreaming, the group treats dreams not only as messages for the individual but as invitations to explore our collective longing for a world without oppression and exploitation – a world where imagination can flourish. This is a space for slow thinking, playful connection, and unruly creativity. Together, we’ll wander through dreamscapes and return with unexpected images, insights, and possibilities.

Goldsmiths Social Dreaming Matrix

Social Dreaming

Günseli Yalcinkaya reckons with the dawn of a new cosmic technological world in her essay ‘Age of Aquarius’, reflecting on distorted realities on the internet, and why leaning into counterculture and psychedelia might be the answer. 

Günseli Yalcinkaya is joined by Suzanne Treister in conversation discussing the psychedelic potential of AI, and the power of magical thinking in crisis – could speculative fiction be the key to unlocking new worlds of being?

Yalcinkaya is a writer, researcher, and internet folklorist based in London.

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Günseli Yalcinkaya & Suzanne Treister

Hamza Yusuf is one of the panellists on After Illusions: Power and Deception, the first of three live conversations which bring together a group of guests from different fields to debate urgent topics.

Yusuf is a British-Palestinian journalist known for his writing and broadcasting on Palestine and Middle East issues. 

Hamza Yusuf

Hannah Black shares ANXIETINA – a performance piece blurring words, textiles and music with Bonaventure (Soraya Lutangu), that reveals the transformative power of everyday anxiety – for better or for worse.

Black is a British visual artist, critic, and writer. Her work spans video, text and performance.

Photo: Lee Wei Swee. Courtesy of Flash Art.

Hannah Black

A call to wake from apathy in a dream mix by Hannah Catherine Jones, a London-based multidisciplinary artist, multi-instrumentalist, researcher, educator, broadcaster, DJ, composer, conductor and founder of Peckham Chamber Orchestra (est. 2013) - a radical community ensemble, and of Chiron Choir (est. 2022) - a queer diasporic vocal group.

Hannah Catherine Jones

How can we protect our minds – and bodies – in a time of crisis? Hannah Proctor and Micha Frazer Carroll reimagine care towards each other, and the world-building potential of dreams.

Proctor holds a Wellcome Trust University Award at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare at the University of Strathclyde. She is the author of two books: Psychologies in Revolution: Alexander Luria's 'Romantic Science' and Soviet Social History and Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat. She is on the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy and is a contributing editor at Parapraxis.

Hannah Proctor

Micha Frazer-Carroll and Hannah Proctor

HKCR brings back archived sonic journeys shaped by dreams. Revisited transmissions drift through the hazy dreamland of sound and sleep.

Founded in 2016, Hong Kong Community Radio (HKCR) is a community platform and independent radio station comprised of creators, musicians, artists and fans with aims to broadcast and support independent works as an open platform.

Hong Kong Community Radio

Huw Lemmey is one of the panellists on After Illusions: Power and Deception, the first of three live conversations which bring together a group of guests from different fields to debate urgent topics.

Lemmey is a Barcelona-based novelist, artist, and critic whose work explores themes of sex, culture, and history across multiple media. 

Huw Lemmey

For dream keeper IONE, dreams are radical. She talks with Sarah Shin about how quantum dreaming can be an antidote to crisis and finding community in dreams and reality.

IONE is an author, playwright, director and an improvising text-sound artist. In addition to multiple international performances, she has created numerous large music theatre works with her creative partner and spouse, the composer Pauline Oliveros.

IONE

Professor, author and poet Jackie Wang speaks with writer and researcher Lola Olufemi about the poetics and politics of dreaming.

Jackie Wang is a queer poet, essayist, filmmaker, performer, alien, and prison abolitionist. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is pursuing a PhD at Harvard University.



Jackie Wang

Lola Olufemi and Jackie Wang

Are tabletop role playing games like Dungeons & Dragons simple exercises in escapism, or do they offer unique strategies for rethinking our relationship with the world and with each other? With an original soundtrack by David Blandy.

Sutcliffe is a writer, curator, and co-director of Strange Attractor Press. His work explores science fictive fabulation, the politics of gaming, animation, haunted media, and the persistence of myth. He is the editor of Documents of Contemporary Art: Magic (2021) published by The MIT Press, and co-editor of Weeb Theory (2023) published by Banner Repeater. His writings have been published internationally by Art Monthly, Art Review, e-flux Criticism, Frieze, The White Review, and others.

Jamie Sutcliffe

Jason Hickel is in conversation with economist Jayati Ghosh.

Hickel is Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science & Technology (ICTA-UAB) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Distinguished Researcher at the Department of Political Science & Public Law. He is also a Visiting Professor at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Jason Hickel

Jayati Ghosh and Jason Hickel

Jay Bernard dreams of more equitable futures.

A writer from London, their work is multi-disciplinary, critical, queer and rooted in the archives.

Jay Bernard

Jayati Ghosh is in conversation with economic anthropologist Jason Hickel.

Ghosh is an Indian development economist. She taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for nearly 35 years.


Jayati Ghosh

The subject of the dream is the dreamer: an artists search for integrity. Somerset House artist Jemma Desai delivers a past speech into the dream space to find new meaning. 


Jemma Desai is a cultural worker, somatic facilitator and artist. Her work spans artistic and administrative practice, writing, curation and performance. She is based in London.

Jemma Desai

A soundscape composed of the movements of the extremophilic 

 bacteria and drawing from early ideas of a Martian tongue

Jenna Sutela is an artist working with open biological and computational systems to create living sculptures, images, and sound. Based in Berlin, Sutela's work has been presented internationally.

Jenna Sutela

Johanna Hedva shares 'Who Listens and Learns?' – a short story read by their AI vocal clone – and explores magic, divination and technology in an interview that asks: how do we outlast an age of doom?

Hedva is a Korean American writer, artist, and musician from Los Angeles. Hedva is the author of the essay collection 

How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom

, which won the Amber Hollibaugh Award for LGBTQ Social Justice Writing. They are also the author of the novels 

, a collection of poems, performances, and essays. Their artwork has been shown internationally, and their albums are 

Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House

Johanna Hedva

Juliet Jacques reveals shadowy dream encounters while on antidepressants and reflects on the boundary-dissolving potential of lucid dreaming in a reading of her essay, Sertraline Surrealism.

Jacques is a writer and filmmaker based in London. She has published six books, including Trans: A Memoir (2015), Variations (2021) and The Woman in the Portrait: Collected Short Stories 2008-2024. Her four short stories have screened in galleries and festivals worldwide. She lives in London.

Juliet Jacques

An AI reading of species lost to time between now and the End Cretaceous.

Allado-McDowell is a writer, artist, musician, and a pioneering figure in the field of AI literature.

K Allado McDowell

, part of a series of three live conversations which bring together a group of guests from different fields to debate urgent topics from the perspective of our current reality, in the aftermath of broken illusions.

Dihal is a researcher and science communicator whose work examines how stories and narratives influence public understanding of artificial intelligence.

Kanta Dihal

Katie Shannon is an artist living in Glasgow and London. Her practice moves between visual art, performance and event making.

Katie Shannon

KMRU conjures dream environments that grow and dissolve in a mix that blends field recordings, drone textures and music.

Joseph Kamaru, aka KMRU, is a sound artist and experimental ambient musician, raised in Nairobi, Kenya, and currently based in Berlin.

KMRU

Kojo Koram is one of the panellists on After Illusions: Invisible Systems, part of a series of three live conversations which bring together a group of guests from different fields to debate urgent topics.

Koram is a writer, academic, and legal scholar whose work explores the legacies of empire, law, and global inequality.

Kojo Koram

Writer and researcher Lola Olufemi speaks with professor, author and poet Jackie Wang about the poetics and politics of dreaming.

Olufemi is a black feminist writer and Stuart Hall foundation researcher from London. Her work focuses on the uses of the feminist imagination and its relationship to cultural production, political demands and futurity.

Lola Olufemi

Mark Leckey enters a medieval mindset, and describes how medieval theology and metaphysical thinking can save us from an AI dystopia

Leckey is a Turner Prize-winning contemporary artist who works with a variety of media, including film, sound, sculpture, and performance. His practice focuses on the relationship between popular culture and technology, tackling the subjects of anxiety, class, and nostalgia.

Mark Leckey

Porter is the author of four novels, including the bestseller 

Max Porter

Maxine Peake is an English actor and narrator.

Maxine Peake

Maxwell Sterling was commissioned by Tai Shani to create a new soundscape for The Spell, Shani's new sculpture in Somerset House's Edmond J Safra Fountain Court.

Previously they developed the score together for Shani’s film work, My Bodily Remains, Your Bodily Remains, And All The Bodily Remains That Ever Were, And Ever Will Be. A recording of a live adaptation of the score, presented originally at the Southbank Centre, will be broadcast as part The Dream.

Maxwell Sterling is a composer, producer, musician and artist, originally from Manchester.

Maxwell Sterling

How can we protect our minds – and bodies – in a time of crisis? Micha Frazer-Carroll and Hannah Proctor reimagine care towards each other, and the world-building potential of dreams.

Frazer-Carroll is an author, journalist and editor living in London, committed to challenging systems of oppression and supporting social justice movements.

Micha Frazer-Caroll

Founder of the Palestinian Sound Archive, Mo’min Swaitat, plays from a selection of archive cassette tapes, and shares what happens to his dreams while living through a genocide.

Swaitat is a London-based Palestinian Bedouin actor, filmmaker, artist and label owner. He trained at the Freedom Theatre Jenin and LISPA (London and Berlin). He founded Majazz Project and the Palestinian Sound Archive in 2020 after uncovering thousands of vintage Palestinian and Arab tapes and vinyl in his hometown, Jenin. Majazz Project/PSA regularly features in international exhibitions, audio-visual installations, festivals and gigs as well as Mo’min’s monthly show on NTS Radio. His work reissues and reanimates forgotten sounds—from Bedouin weddings to revolutionary music—combining storytelling, performance, and archival practice to preserve and celebrate Palestinian cultural heritage.

Mo’min Swaitat from the Palestinian Sound Archive

Majazz

Montez Press Radio is an experimental broadcasting and performance platform founded in 2018 in Manhattan's Lower East Side.

Celebrating the unexpected and spontaneous, they provide a selection of audio works, ranging from music, to meditations on crisis, to dreams slipping into nightmares for The Dream radio.

Montez Press Radio

In Moor Mother’s new piece ‘Primordial Time’, we travel through the Book of Revelations into a future dream to see through the chaos and madness of the mind. The piece is a non-linear journey from the cave of the apocalypse in Patmos where John the theologian wrote the Book of Revelation, to contemporary east London.

Building off the philosophy of Sun Ra, music expanding into space and time, Moor Mother situates the Book of Revelations in the present to give agency in our current moment. Moving from the idea that we live on a planet of continuous and simultaneous happenings, the piece breaks down the idea of singular events with a start and finish. The works acts as a spell, working as re-memory. An act of retro-causality by and for time disrupters.

Collaborators:
The Shovel Dance Collective
Imani Mason Jordan
Elaine Mitchener

an American poet, musician, and activist from Philadelphia.

Moor Mother

Blanco is an American rapper, performance artist, poet and activist.