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Queer East hosts a special takeover at the ICA, featuring an all-day line-up of film, performance, and practice-based workshops culminating in a club night. Chasing the dizzying ecstasy of movement in all its eclectic potentials. This experimental showcase will flow across disciplines and throughout the venue, concocting a sensory mixed bill of bold sounds, moving image, and haptic intimacies.
In the Theatre, Hong Kong-based dance company, Unlock Dancing Plaza, presents a double bill by Joseph Lee and Paula Wong, examining the body politics of spectatorship through playful subversion of everyday gestures. The line-up also features shibari artist hua hua, multidisciplinary artist Riven Ratanavanh, queer collective CD3 and experimental choreographer Osamu Shikichi, with each performance engaging with the errant vitality of queerness in their own inimitable way.
A looping shorts programme will display works by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Umi Ishihara, and Oat Montien, among others. Audiences can slip in and out of cinematic velocity and counter-choreographic eruptions throughout the night, traversing poetics of migration, trespassed borders, unfettered desiring and the necessity of movement for survival.
Audiences will be invited to explore shibari as a mindful and sensual practice through a workshop led by hua hua. This happens alongside a range of other cross-disciplinary workshops led by Pubis Project, Sun Park, Chiemi Shimada, Kayla Lui and Doreen Chen, spanning fantasy stamp-making, cosmotechnical filmmaking, life drawing that undermines established systems of gazing, and a dream-based cocktail mixer.
Building to a fiery, moonlit climax, we will shed skins and dance hard to the beats of Flow (海纳百川), a multidisciplinary club and performance programme curated by celebrated DJ-artist Sirui Chang (Princess Xixi).
DAYTRIP is curated by Bart Seng Wen Long and Yi Wang.
For more information about the programme
In the Theatre, Hong Kong-based dance company, Unlock Dancing Plaza, presents a double bill by Joseph Lee and Paula Wong, examining the body politics of spectatorship through playful subversion of everyday gestures. The line-up also features shibari artist hua hua, multidisciplinary artist Riven Ratanavanh, queer collective CD3 and experimental choreographer Osamu Shikichi, with each performance engaging with the errant vitality of queerness in their own inimitable way.
A looping shorts programme will display works by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Umi Ishihara, and Oat Montien, among others. Audiences can slip in and out of cinematic velocity and counter-choreographic eruptions throughout the night, traversing poetics of migration, trespassed borders, unfettered desiring and the necessity of movement for survival.
Audiences will be invited to explore shibari as a mindful and sensual practice through a workshop led by hua hua. This happens alongside a range of other cross-disciplinary workshops led by Pubis Project, Sun Park, Chiemi Shimada, Kayla Lui and Doreen Chen, spanning fantasy stamp-making, cosmotechnical filmmaking, life drawing that undermines established systems of gazing, and a dream-based cocktail mixer.
Building to a fiery, moonlit climax, we will shed skins and dance hard to the beats of Flow (海纳百川), a multidisciplinary club and performance programme curated by celebrated DJ-artist Sirui Chang (Princess Xixi).
DAYTRIP is curated by Bart Seng Wen Long and Yi Wang.
For more information about the programme
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Sat, 16 May 2026
Stage
02:00 pm
Sat, 16 May 2026
Stage
02:00 pm
Sat, 16 May 2026
Stage
09:00 pm
Full Access: £35 (2pm – 2am)
Day Pass: £25 (2pm – 9.30pm)
Rave Pass: £15 (9.30pm – 2am)
Ticket information
- All tickets that do not require ID (full price, disabled, income support) can be printed at home or stored in email
- For aged-based concession tickets (under 25, student) please bring relevant ID to collect at the front desk before the event.
Access information
Stage
- The Stage has step free access via The Mall entrance and lift. The lift in the Stage is self-controlled with hand control, with two buttons for up and down (max weight 300kg). It is without sides and includes a vertical pole to hold on to. It operates quietly and will not disrupt the performance. Our Public Advisors can also assist.
- We have a small, raised platform to accommodate wheelchair users or others who require a chair. To request, please purchase a ticket, then contact the box office during opening hours on 020 7930 3647 or email access@ica.art
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Highlights (2pm - 9:30pm, specific timings TBC)
Live Arts, Performances and Workshops
Good Boy, Bad Girl: A Double Bill by Joseph Lee and Paula Wong
In this double bill, the artists work through regimes of conditioning, endurance and display, foregrounding the body as something trained, exposed and consumed.
The Language of Rope and REANIMATED by hua hua
Shibari artist hua hua guides you on the language of rope, exploring how to create a dialogue, build tension and express our desires.
UNTITLED by Riven Ratanavanh
Ratanavanh presents a new live performance exploring transformations within the intimate realm.
The Application by CD3 Project
The Application is a transdisciplinary performance piece that transforms both the digital and the stage into a live laboratory to interrogate digital intimacy, consent, and power dynamics.
Crucified Stars on the Tongue by Osamu Shikichi
Shikichi references “舌読 / Zetsudoku,” a technique developed by people with Hansen’s disease in Japan after World War II, in their attempt to find light within darkness by using their tongue as a third hand.
Collective Divination and Filmmaking by Sun Park and Chiemi Shimada
Drawing on cosmotechnics, this workshop uses tarot and oracle cards as methods for engaging with deep intuition so as to spark the collective creation of a new moving image work shot on analogue film.
Books in the Diasporic: Imaginary Habitats and Away ༄ with Pubis Project
Join Pubis Project in this writing and making workshop to create from scratch a personal book stamp for a publication that has travelled with you across space and time.
Keep Staring: Life drawing at the theatre with Kayla Lui
This is a life drawing session with the explicit aim of subverting the role of audience and performer. In the meta spirit of interactive theatre and Terayama, it’s time for your butts to leave the audience seat and reimagine the scene.
Sipping Dreams [小酌一夢] by Doreen Chan
Originally commissioned by Kwun Contemporary as a virtual event, Sipping Dreams will be staged as an in-person interactive cocktail mixer at Queer East DAYTRIP.
9:30pm onwards
Flow (海纳百川)
A multidisciplinary club and performance programme curated by Sirui Chang (Princess Xixi), bringing together DJs, live performers, MCs, and movement artists at the intersection of diasporic underground music and contemporary art. Drawing from East and Southeast Asian diasporic scenes, the programme explores movement across borders, communities, and dancefloors, and even the body itself.
Film Programme
Meanwhile, in Cinema 2, it feels like everything is moving, towards or against or away, longing to meet in strange places. The looping shorts programme ‘Fast Crawl, Slow Draws’ will feature:
Mobile Men (2008) by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Every Vibe Shift Is In God’s Hand (2025) by Virtue Village
Cadence of a Prayer (2026) by Moses Tan
LOVE EXERCISE (7-mins version, 2013) by Fuyuhiko Takata
Dancing Thongkham (2026) by Jessada Chan-yaem
Acid Green (2023) by EXYL
Mien Man (2024) by Nguyen Le Hoang Phuc
Bêtes Éternelles (2022) by Harit Srikhao
NGGAK!!! (2024) by Oktania Hamdani and Winner Wijaya
Boulders (2026) by Oat Montien
Thundergod (2025) by Umi Ishihara
All films are ad-free and 18+ unless otherwise stated, and start with a 10 min. curated selection of trailers.
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