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Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom: Performance
Sat 18 Oct 2025, 1-5pm

People sit around an art gallery and engage with a performance art piece. The performers are hidden behind a screen, you can only see their legs. On the screen, is an art work balancing on a shelf.

Image courtesy Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom and The Roberts Institute of Art. Photo: © Anne Tetzlaff

Free, drop-in

Artist Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom presents a new experimental 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