Join us for Live Art Day at Peopling the Palaces Festival 2025. The afternoon is curated by Martin O’Brien and brings together an intergenerational group of artists performing across multiple spaces over a three-hour duration. The day will culminate in a performance party, curated and hosted by Julia Bardsley. 

The Arts One Building at QMUL will be taken over by an afternoon of durational performances and video art. Live Art Day includes some of the UK’s best-known artists, and most exciting young performance makers. All works are presented 3-6pm, and you are welcome to move between them all, coming and going as you like. Pieces will take place in studios and public spaces.

Live performances from:

Julia Bardsley

Tonny A

Lynn Lu

Ash McNaughton

Ewan Hindes

more tbc

Where: FADS Arts Two

When: doors at 7pm, event from 7.30-9pm - carriages at 9pm

Dress Code: Decadent Dissent + Rebellious Resistance

We invite you to be both gloriously dressed-up guests + performance party participants.

There will be dynamic pop-up acts, a revolt-ing DJ, performative presences, situational happenings, opportunities to vent + rant, celebratory sing-alongs, fantastical spoken word, roller-skating signage, democratically bestowed prizes for the most decadently dissent-ful + riotously resistant outfits, all hosted by MC Profit/Prophet + the Party Plagues!

WE DEMONSTRATE OUR RESISTANCE THROUGH PARTY PLEASURE!

The Performance Party is curated by Julia Bardsley