Event - Private View Locus of Voices
Jun
19
6:30 pm18:30

Event - Private View Locus of Voices

Join us for the Private View of Locus of Voices.

  • Thursday 19 June at 6.30pm - 8.30pm

  • RSVP: rsvp@propositionstudios.com

  • 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 0EL

  • Toilets on 1st floor with no wheelchair access.

In a time of escalating crisis, Propositions forthcoming exhibition Locus of Voices offers a vision for resilience and renewal — frameworks and calls to move against systems of extraction and division.

This group exhibition embodies the perspective that unity is not uniformity, as with biodiversity, it flourishes through multiplicity. It asks us: How does interconnectedness speak?

The constellation of featured artists creates tactile and temporal encounters with materiality, illuminating biospheric rhythms through installation, sculpture, dance, painting, music, film, and demonstrations of stewardship. Their sensory, relational practices invite us to heighten awareness of our responsibilities within the living cosmos.

Locus of Voices embraces immediacy and impermanence as generative actions — vibrational exchanges that sustain environmental bodies. This extends into a deeper inquiry of reciprocity: How may our movements and correspondences with the elements cultivate ecological awareness — akin to a chorus of relation, grounded in our shared ecology?

Engaged in this dialogue are artists: Milford Graves/Jake Meginsky, Naima Nefertari/Cõvco E. Kikaya, Emmanuel Awuni, Kalpana Arias, Phoebe Collings-James, Anonymous Monastic, SERAFINE1369, Divine Southgate-Smith, Rosalind Nashashibi, and Raven Chacon.

Curated by Nissa Nishikawa.

Find out more about this exhibition and the artists here

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Exhibition - Locus of Voices
Jun
20
to 17 Aug

Exhibition - Locus of Voices

Locus of Voices will be exhibited throughout our galleries, lecture hall and garden in Bethnal Green from 20 June - 17 August.

  • Open Wednesday - Saturday: 12pm - 7pm 

  • 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 0EL

  • Toilets on 1st floor with no wheelchair access.

In a time of escalating crisis, Propositions forthcoming exhibition Locus of Voices offers a vision for resilience and renewal — frameworks and calls to move against systems of extraction and division.

This group exhibition embodies the perspective that unity is not uniformity, as with biodiversity, it flourishes through multiplicity. It asks us: How does interconnectedness speak?

The constellation of featured artists creates tactile and temporal encounters with materiality, illuminating biospheric rhythms through installation, sculpture, dance, painting, music, film, and demonstrations of stewardship. Their sensory, relational practices invite us to heighten awareness of our responsibilities within the living cosmos.

Locus of Voices embraces immediacy and impermanence as generative actions — vibrational exchanges that sustain environmental bodies. This extends into a deeper inquiry of reciprocity: How may our movements and correspondences with the elements cultivate ecological awareness — akin to a chorus of relation, grounded in our shared ecology?

Engaged in this dialogue are artists: Milford Graves/Jake Meginsky, Naima Nefertari/Cõvco E. Kikaya, Emmanuel Awuni, Kalpana Arias, Phoebe Collings-James, Anonymous Monastic, SERAFINE1369, Divine Southgate-Smith, Rosalind Nashashibi, and Raven Chacon.

Curated by Nissa Nishikawa.

Find out more about this exhibition and the artists here

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ACT I - NAIMA NEFERTARI & CÕVCO
Jun
22
5:00 pm17:00

ACT I - NAIMA NEFERTARI & CÕVCO

Solo piano and duo performance

Infinite FXX: Ultra Blessed playback 

+Solstice polyphony in an embryonic state.

++ Scales and teachings from Dr Yusef Lateef

5pm Infinite FXX: Ultra Blessed album playback & drinks 

6pm - Performance

8pm - End 

Tickets £8 - £10

Book your tickets here: https://ra.co/events/2185323

All ticket proceeds go to Infinite FXX Project Kinshasa (Art Residency in Congo).

Throughout the exhibition, LOCUS OF VOICES, Gallery III will act as a collective space for music and gatherings. With a grand piano activated by artist/musician Naima Nefertari in collaboration with Infinite FXX founder Cõvco E. Kikaya in three acts.

Infinite FXX is a nomadic cultural platform and Multi performance Channel grounded in radical storytelling, diasporic connection, and new ways of gathering. Through Infinite FXX and a wider curatorial work, including a collaborative album ‘Ultra Blessed’ featuring over 24 international artists in support of the PROJECT KINSHASA, an initiative to build an art residency and provide cross continental programmes. Infinite FXX gofundme: https://gofund.me/c40a10cb

Other acts in the series: -

ACT II - XSPIRIT QUARTET - SUNDAY 6TH JULY 6-9PM

featuring Cõvco - Richard Olatunde - Ines Di Folco - Fat Lip ++

& Naima Nefertari b2b Paul Camo 

ACT III - SONIC GATHERING - SATURDAY 2ND AUGUST 3PM 

Open Piano, Improvisations, Milford Graves listening & food

Naima Nefertari (aka Karlsson) is an interdisciplinary artist, musician and composer based in London. Her practice interweaves sonic and visual forms led by interests in repetition, improvisation, and relationships between language, image, symbol and sound. Naima’s main instrument is the piano, as well as percussion, vibraphone, and electric organ. Improvisation is at the core of the artist’s musical process, combined with minimalist uses of tone and an inherently organic approach to playing.

Cõvco is a London-based Congolese polymath artist whose practice spans music, performance, poetry, and curation. Known for her experimental soundscapes and emotionally raw performances, she creates immersive experiences that move between club spaces, ritual, and live art. Her sonic work ranges from live performance to scoring, often weaving voice, movement, and texture into boundary-pushing compositions. She is the founder of Infinite FXX.


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ACT II - XSPIRIT QUARTET
Jul
6
6:00 pm18:00

ACT II - XSPIRIT QUARTET

featuring Cõvco - Richard Olatunde - Ines Di Folco - Fat Lip ++

& Naima Nefertari b2b Paul Camo 

Infinite FXX: Ultra Blessed playback 

Tickets £8 - £10

Ticket link coming soon.

Throughout the exhibition, LOCUS OF VOICES, Gallery III will act as a collective space for music and gatherings. With a grand piano activated by artist/musician Naima Nefertari in collaboration with Infinite FXX founder Cõvco E. Kikaya in three acts.

All ticket proceeds go to Infinite FXX Project Kinshasa (Art Residency in Congo).

Cõvco is a London-based Congolese polymath artist whose practice spans music, performance, poetry, and curation. Known for her experimental soundscapes and emotionally raw performances, she creates immersive experiences that move between club spaces, ritual, and live art. Her sonic work ranges from live performance to scoring, often weaving voice, movement, and texture into boundary-pushing compositions. Founder of Infinite FXX, a nomadic cultural platform and Multi performance Channel grounded in radical storytelling, diasporic connection, and new ways of gathering. Through Infinite FXX and a wider curatorial work, including a collaborative album ‘Ultra Blessed’featuring over 24 international artists in support of the PROJECT KINSHASA, an initiative to build an art residency and provide cross continental programmes. Cõvco cultivates spaces for new forms of expression and intergenerational exchange.

Naima Nefertari (aka Karlsson) is an interdisciplinary artist, musician and composer based in London. Her practice interweaves sonic and visual forms led by interests in repetition, improvisation, and relationships between language, image, symbol and sound. Naima’s main instrument is the piano, as well as percussion, vibraphone, and electric organ. Improvisation is at the core of the artist’s musical process, combined with minimalist uses of tone and an inherently organic approach to playing.


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ACT III - SONIC GATHERING
Aug
2
3:00 pm15:00

ACT III - SONIC GATHERING

Open Piano, Improvisations, Milford Graves listening & food

Tickets £8 - £10

Ticket link coming soon.

Throughout the exhibition, LOCUS OF VOICES, Gallery III will act as a collective space for music and gatherings. With a grand piano activated by artist/musician Naima Nefertari in collaboration with Infinite FXX founder Cõvco E. Kikaya in three acts.

All ticket proceeds go to Infinite FXX Project Kinshasa (Art Residency in Congo).

Cõvco is a London-based Congolese polymath artist whose practice spans music, performance, poetry, and curation. Known for her experimental soundscapes and emotionally raw performances, she creates immersive experiences that move between club spaces, ritual, and live art. Her sonic work ranges from live performance to scoring, often weaving voice, movement, and texture into boundary-pushing compositions. Founder of Infinite FXX, a nomadic cultural platform and Multi performance Channel grounded in radical storytelling, diasporic connection, and new ways of gathering. Through Infinite FXX and a wider curatorial work, including a collaborative album ‘Ultra Blessed’featuring over 24 international artists in support of the PROJECT KINSHASA, an initiative to build an art residency and provide cross continental programmes. Cõvco cultivates spaces for new forms of expression and intergenerational exchange.

Naima Nefertari (aka Karlsson) is an interdisciplinary artist, musician and composer based in London. Her practice interweaves sonic and visual forms led by interests in repetition, improvisation, and relationships between language, image, symbol and sound. Naima’s main instrument is the piano, as well as percussion, vibraphone, and electric organ. Improvisation is at the core of the artist’s musical process, combined with minimalist uses of tone and an inherently organic approach to playing.


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Event - Fantastic Toiles: The Summer Drop
Jun
1
11:00 am11:00

Event - Fantastic Toiles: The Summer Drop

Sunday 1st June 2025

11.00 am - 7.00 pm

Free Entry // All Welcome

Address: 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

Please note: Toilets on 1st floor with no wheelchair access.

About this Event

POP UP SHOP.

Fantastic Toiles is a space where you will find experiments, toiles, works of art and everything in between.

An independently run space by designer/makers and artists.

A space for artists to show and sell work without the constraints and prescribed ideals of a homogenised corporate industry.

Almost all items are 1 of 1 and handmade. Materials and fabrics used are often repurposed, discarded and antique. 

Natural imperfections are expected and sometimes occur in the process of one off works.

https://www.fantastictoiles.co.uk/ // @fantastictoiles

This is a free event and part of our Pansentient Arboriculture exhibition.

#PansentientArboriculture

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Event - Artist-led Exhibition Tour with Sol Bailey Barker
May
20
6:30 pm18:30

Event - Artist-led Exhibition Tour with Sol Bailey Barker

You are invited to an artist-led guided tour of our current exhibition, Pansentient Arboricultureon Tuesday 20th of May. 

Sol Bailey Barker will take visitors around the show, talk about the individual sculptures, the trees from which they are created, and explore their folklore roles within ecology. 

Drinks will be served, conversation will be welcome, and there will be informal Q&A throughout the tour. 

  • 6.30pm - 7.30pm at Proposition Bethnal Green

  • 279 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 0EL 

  • This event is free

Please note: Toilets are on the first floor with no wheelchair access.


About the Exhibition

Proposition is pleased to present Pansentient Arboriculture, a new solo exhibition by artist Sol Bailey Barker which proposes a system of care in which trees and entire forests are considered sentient and aware, having a form of consciousness. This exhibition decodes our relationship with the arboreal world, considering practices such as agroforestry, ecological preservation, and the cultural and spiritual roles of trees. Drawing on the folklore of Albion, Pansentient Arboriculture builds a bridge to the world our ancestors lived in, extending from their knowledge.

Find out more about the exhibition and the artist here

This free exhibition will run from Friday 25th April to Saturday 7th June 2025.

www.solbaileybarker.com // @solbaileybarker

#PansentientArboriculture

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Event - bones tan jones: Sonic Qi Gong
May
11
2:00 pm14:00

Event - bones tan jones: Sonic Qi Gong

Free Entry // All Welcome

Spaces are limited to 25, book your place here

Address: 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

Please note: Toilets on 1st floor with no wheelchair access.


About this Event

Qi Gong is an ancient Chinese energy movement practice, it is available and accessible to all abilities and bodies. During this event we will explore themes, elements and concepts of Qi Gong as the seasons unfold.

Cultivating the soft strength and playful movements that are at the core of Qi Gong’s health benefits, for longevity and a balanced life. Accompanied by a live soundscape by bones and various ambient musicians over the months, practitioners will be fully immersed in the sonic sounds as they move intentionally through this energy practice. Moving somatically, bones guides students into a poetic relationship to their bodies and the space and world around them.

About the Artist

bones tan jones (b.93 Liverpool) is a queer heretic whose work traverses materials, disciplines and time lines.

Raised in a church choir in the northwest of the UK, on the borderlands of mythical Wales and enchanted England, Tan Jones’s work has ne'er strayed far from the ecclesiastic rituals of worship, only in tan jones’s world, the church has been burnt, the yew trees thrive in the ashes, and god is trans.

bones tan jones presents their living praxis ‘optimystic dystopia’ as a spiritual practice. an eternal storyteller, alternative realities are explored through alter egos, retellings of ancient Chinese and Celtic mythologies through creating; symphonies, operas, psalms, triptychs, sigils, stele, installations, interventions, inter-active workshops.

https://bonestanjones.world/ // @bonestanjones

This is a free event and part of our Pansentient Arboriculture exhibition.

#PansentientArboriculture

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 Exhibition - Sol Bailey Barker, Pansentient Arboriculture
Apr
25
to 7 Jun

Exhibition - Sol Bailey Barker, Pansentient Arboriculture

Free Entry

Address: 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

Please note: Toilets on 1st floor with no wheelchair access.


About the Exhibition

Proposition is pleased to present Pansentient Arboriculture, a new solo exhibition by artist Sol Bailey Barker which proposes a system of care in which trees and entire forests are considered sentient and aware, having a form of consciousness. This exhibition decodes our relationship with the arboreal world, considering practices such as agroforestry, ecological preservation, and the cultural and spiritual roles of trees. Drawing on the folklore of Albion, Pansentient Arboriculture builds a bridge to the world our ancestors lived in, extending from their knowledge.

Find out more about the exhibition and the artist here

This free exhibition will run from Friday 25th April to Saturday 7th June 2025.

www.solbaileybarker.com // @solbaileybarker

#PansentientArboriculture

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Private View - Sol Bailey Barker, Pansentient Arboriculture
Apr
24
6:30 pm18:30

Private View - Sol Bailey Barker, Pansentient Arboriculture

We are thrilled to invite you to celebrate our inaugural exhibition, Pansentient Arboriculture, at Proposition Bethnal Green — a moment that marks the official public opening of our new cultural hub. Join us for a first look at this exceptional work, to connect and celebrate the beginning of an ambitious new chapter in our story, programme and community.

To join us at this event: rsvp@propositionstudios.com

Address: 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

Please note: Toilets on 1st floor with no wheelchair access.


About the Exhibition

Pansentient Arboriculture, a new solo exhibition by artist Sol Bailey Barker, which proposes a system of care in which trees and entire forests are considered sentient and aware — possessing a form of consciousness.

This exhibition decodes our relationship with the arboreal world, considering practices such as agroforestry, ecological preservation, and the cultural and spiritual roles of trees. Drawing on the folklore of Albion, Pansentient Arboriculture builds a bridge to the world our ancestors lived in, extending from their knowledge.

Find out more about the exhibition and the artist here

This free exhibition will run from Friday 25th April to Saturday 7th June 2025.

www.solbaileybarker.com // @solbaileybarker

#PansentientArboriculture

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Biodiversity Fingerprint Commission Unveiling
Jun
19
6:30 pm18:30

Biodiversity Fingerprint Commission Unveiling

We are excited to announce the unveiling of our commissioned artworks, taking place at Proposition on Wednesday 19 June 2024, 6.30 - 8.30pm. These works explore the concept of the Biodiversity Fingerprint, and the event will involve a curator’s welcome at 7pm, followed by an introduction to the artists, a short film screening, and the opportunity to hear our ‘Proposition’.

Join us, and RSVP by emailing rsvp@propositionstudios.com!

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Exhibition: Human Nature @ Proposition Camden
Jun
7
to 16 Jun

Exhibition: Human Nature @ Proposition Camden

Human Nature

Human Nature is an exhibition of photographs which offer aesthetic and imaginative reflections on the theme of connections between the human and the natural environments.

A selection of carefully composed images presents a variety of artistic responses, which frame our relationship with nature and biodiversity. The exhibition features photographs by eleven talented artists from around the globe.

Featuring the work of Anna Skladmann, Aurora Destro, Crispian Blaize, Diana Olifirova, Jacob Kamara, Jamal Finni, Karolina Slup, Karoline Healey, Katie Bret-Day, Paola Chapdelaine, Violeta Sofia, and William Joshua Templeton.
More information on these artists here.

Open from 12 - 6pm from Fri 7 June to Sun 16 June 2024, this in-person exhibition takes place in our Gallery at 100a Chalk Farm Rd, NW1 8EH.

Book free tickets

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This is a free event. Stepfree access to the building can be arranged and there is an accessible toilet. Baby changing facilities are available.

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Exhibition: Songs of Love, Death & Desire @ Proposition Camden
Mar
15
to 24 Mar

Exhibition: Songs of Love, Death & Desire @ Proposition Camden

With thought-provoking visual displays, this free exhibition promises to stretch the senses and leave you with a renewed appreciation for the power of art. Originally an exhibition focusing on the work of Dan Llywelyn Hall, Simon Page and Glyn Dillon, the show now also includes new responses from resident artists at Proposition Camden.

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