Poet Andra Simons turns to art when words fail. Following his 2023–24 readings inspired by Philip Guston’s Passage and Monument at Tate Modern, he now responds to Marlene Smith’s new commission for Connecting Thin Black Lines.

Through spoken word, Rommi Smith presents a new work in collaboration with Christella Litras on keyboard/vocals, responding to The Thin Black Line, Maud Sulter’s Zabat and beyond. 

Humanities is a collaborative performance by Laxlan Petras, Yasmin Saleh, and Amber Fasquelle, unfolding as a live experiment in proximity, perception, and communal vulnerability. Originally commissioned for Berlin Atonal (2023), this opera performed in-the-round has been extended and made site-specific for ICA.

Bermudian writer and performer Andra Simons brings his book Turtlemen to the stage; an often raw and intimate telling, part myth, part truth, that wades ankle-deep into the legacies of ancestral grief and healing.