HOT LIST: 06/03/2025

Our weekly Hot List is here, packed with some of the hottest events on our radar. From screenings celebrating female filmmakers to an exploration of feminist icon Andrea Dworkin’s legacy, plus the launch of SACCADES, an immersive exhibition featuring a custom-built eye-tracking headset. For the ones into experimental live performance, don’t miss Judgement Hall Festival, Myto’s second edition, and GR1N at the ICA.

And there's more—keep reading and grab your tickets before they’re gone!

LATE OPENING

FIRST THURSDAY

VARIOUS VENUE

North East London | Thursday 6 March 18:00 - 20:00

Explore galleries, artist-run spaces, and studios in North East London, including a zine swap at Hato Press, a chat about your magazine idea with magCulture, and an open studio at Daisy Chain, among others.

ART SHOW

CHRISTINA CUSHING: SACCADES

FEELIUM GALLERY & STUDIOS

Notting Hill Gate | 7 March - 12 March

The first London-based solo show by Thai-British artist Christina Cushing. Featuring a custom-built eye-tracking headset and video game engines, the exhibition explores our relationship with perception and consciousness. For the exhibition, Cushing has teamed up with cloudy.works, an architectural practice specialising in 3D scanning solutions and 360° media. The exhibition includes new video, installation and prints featuring a custom-built eye-tracking headset and LiDAR scanning.

SACCADES invites viewers to consider how their attention is directed and commodified, encouraging a deeper reflection on the ways we perceive, interpret, and construct meaning in the digital age.

FILM

FOCUSING ON FEMALE FILMMAKERS

PRINCE CHARLES CINEMA

Leicester Square | Until 16 April

The iconic Prince Charles Cinema is putting on a season with female filmmakers in focus throughout March and the first half of April. A treat for all cinephiles, and an opportunity for everyone to indulge in cult classics on the big screen, including Beau Travail, Bound, American Psycho, and Lost In Translation, just to name a few; the season will feature films new and old, with the earliest one released in 1966 and the newest in 2024.

See the full programme and book your tickets here.

SCREENING + DISCUSSION

RIO FEMINIST FILM PROGRAMMING GROUP: MY NAME IS ANDREA

RIO CINEMA

Dalston Kingsland | Sunday 9 March 14:00

Andrea Dworkin was a controversial feminist thinker, known to some as the personification of one side of the debates about pornography and female sexual freedom in the 1980s. As Parmar’s film reveals, this reductive characterisation is untrue and does a disservice to Dworkin herself and to feminism in general. Through Dworkin’s life and work, the film challenges us to rethink the hierarchies of domination and submission that infuse our sexual, social and economic relationships.

The Rio feminist film programming group is inspired by the feminist programming work that took place at the Rio in the 1980s by Rio Women’s Cinema and the Women’s Media Resource Project.

Book your ticket here.

Content Guidance: Film contains strong references and discussions on violence and sexual abuse.

THEATRE

A LITTLE INQUEST INTO WHAT WE ARE ALL DOING HERE

SHOREDITCH TOWN HALL

Shoreditch | 11 March - 15 March

In 2022 a show was cancelled while it was still in rehearsal.

But what does this really say about power, censorship, and the state of public debate in the UK? Who gets to decide what’s acceptable, and on whose behalf? A Little Inquest Into What We Are All Doing Here is a show about censorship and freedom of expression. This piece of theatre - part autobiography, part fiction - questions the limits of performance: what we make it for, what we go to it for and what we are willing to stand up for.

Join us post-show for a discussion on censorship in the arts, free speech, and the challenges of disagreement in today’s political and digital landscape.

Get your ticket here.

PERFORMANCE

SHU LEA CHEANG & DONDON HOUNWN: HAGAY DREAMING

TATE MODERN

Bankside | 13 March - 15 March

Through dance, movement, instrumentals, ritual and chant, Hagay Dreaming recounts a story based on an ancient legend connected to the Truku indigenous culture of Taiwan. In her dreams, a hunter meets a group of spiritual non-binary beings called ‘Hagay’ and they pass on ancestral knowledge of living, weaving and hunting. On stage, performers move within intricate light beams projected by a choreography of lasers.

Connecting Cheang’s new media practice with Hounwn’s inheritance of tribal ballads and rituals, Hagay Dreaming combines advanced technologies with traditional ways of performing tribal culture. Using lasers and motion-capture technology in its staging, tribal legends and personal stories are told in new ways.

SCREENING & PANEL

UNTAMED ASSEMBLIES 1: LAUNCH

CELL PROJECT SPACE

Cambridge Heath | 13 March 18:30

Join for the launch of Untamed Assemblies, a new research and public programme at Cell Project Space, exploring the under-recognised intersections between experimental fashion and visual art in the 1990s, with a focus on cultural exchanges between the UK and ‘Eastern’ Europe.

This inaugural event will bring together the initiator of Untamed Fashion Assemblies (UFA), Bruno Birmanis, alongside original participants Phyllis Cohen and Guus Beumer. UFA was an annual carnivalesque festival that took place in Riga, Latvia, between 1990 and 1999, fusing alternative fashion, drag, and visual art. The evening will feature a screening, a panel discussion, and a presentation of archival materials, offering insights into the Assemblies’ spirit.

Find out more and RSVP here.

PERFORMANCE

GR1N PRESENTS HYSTERIA

ICA

Charing Cross | Thursday 13 March 19:00

Gr1n is a creative collective using raving, events and experiences to explore contemporary surrender.

Convulsing, lurching, thrashing, pulsing, writhing - relentlessly, chaotically, involuntary, frenzied, monomaniacal, bodies heaving against one another in one great mass, with dazed expressions and raw feet. At first there was no accompaniment; they simply began to dance. Then came the music.

Note: This work contains interactive elements that may result in accidental splashes onto clothing, attendees are advised to dress accordingly.

EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE

THE JUDGEMENT HALL FESTIVAL

ST BARNABAS CHURCH & ALGHA'S PLANTROOM

Dalston & Hackney Wick I 15 March to 16 March

The Judgement Hall Festival returns, as an underground movement in London and a pocket of resistance in the age of surveillance capitalism, bringing you two days of avant-garde heavy music, cinematography and performing arts with a focus on site-specific performances. They will enter the Neo Byzantine chamber of St Barnabas Church, alongside the Second World War Heritage Site Algha’s Plantroom. To mark the occasion, they present to you their heaviest ever curation of special one-off performances.

See the line-up and get your tickets here.

TWO-DAY EXHIBITION

MYTO EPISODE 2: SOLARPUNK - DECOLONISATION

UGLY DUCK

London Bridge | 22 March - 23 March

Myto is a multimodal organism reimagining learning through collaborative practice, spanning music, performance, contemporary art and club culture. For their second episode, Myto brings to life a two day exhibition in a reclaimed disused factory surrounding the theme of Solarpun, a genre of speculative fiction and an emerging social movement that envisions a hopeful future rooted in sustainability and equity.

Myto aims to bring together artists from different diasporas who explore decolonisation in their practice and to create a space of convergence for their work. Through this, they hope to ignite a conversation, between the participants and the audience, on our cultural resonance and how we can build collective spirituality.

Discover the full programme and secure your tickets here.