New Contemporaries Live

Sat 11 Apr 2026, 2PM - 5PM

Join us for New Contemporaries Live, a dynamic programme of live works by artists Alia Gargum, Makiko Harris, Will Pham and The VLC Band, and Christopher Steenson. This event includes spoken word, performance, live music and choreographed works by New Contemporaries exhibiting artists. 

ARTISTS

Alia Gargum is a sculpture and installation artist. She composes her work through critical and personal exploration of politics and culture, focusing on her heritage through diasporic means. 

Makiko Harris is an interdisciplinary artist exploring feminism, identity, and desire through painting, sculpture, moving image, and sound. Merging symbolic forms and digital processes, her work questions intimacy, spectatorship, and corporeal knowledge.

Will Pham with The VLC Band. Pham is a British-Vietnamese artist exploring themes of intergenerational care, displacement and the Vietnamese resettlement experience to the UK. His approach often begins with archival research blending with his own personal memory, to reactivate a sensorial and bodily relation to memory, history and place-making. The VLC Band are a troupe of musicians primarily from Vietnam, led by Mr Lai. They are based at Centre 151, a Hackney-based community centre set up in 1985, formerly known as the Community Centre for Refugees from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia (VLC). The band members include Dan Tran, Doc Ngo, Thanh Long, Frankie, Hung, Hùng, Quang, Ngọc Nga, Quyen and with special guests including Duy Khiem.

Christopher Steenson works across sound, text, lens-based media and digital systems to interrogate the politics of time, environment and more-than-human relations. Through these concerns, he seeks to make work in which we can listen to the future.

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ABOUT NEW CONTEMPORARIES

New Contemporaries, the leading organisation supporting early career and emerging artists in the UK, presents its annual group exhibition showcasing 26 artists selected through an open call by Pio Abad, Louise Giovanelli and Grace Ndiritu.