'A CLIMATE OF DISSONANCE AND REINVENTION' / Living on the Nexus of Art, Law & Dissent /
'A CLIMATE OF DISSONANCE AND REINVENTION'
/ Living on the Nexus of Art, Law & Dissent /
Friday 20 March 2026, 5.30-9.30pm
at The Foundry 17 Oval Way, London SE11 5RR
An exhibition and film screening on the climate of disagreement with the status quo, when breaking the law is not just rebellious, it is necessary for survival.
Includes Exhibition:
‘Dissonant Laws’ - Exhibition Opening + Performances: 5.30-7pm
Film Screening:
‘Climate Justice On Screen’ - 7pm-9.30
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DISSONANT LAWS
A group of artists share their work on dissonance, law and acts of agreement and disagreement.
As an exhibition, Dissonant Laws seeks to unpick the relationship between citizens, authority, and rebellious invention. How do laws create or engender artistic resistance? How can creative dissent in turn encourage new forms of legality?
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Film Screening: - with The Radical Film School
CLIMATE JUSTICE ON SCREEN
An evening of powerful visual storytelling, people power and human rights, this time centred on Climate Justice.
Through fiction, realism, horror, and spoken word performance, this curated programme explores the deep connections between the climate emergency and social justice.
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DISSONANT LAWS
A group of artists share their work on dissonance, law and acts of agreement and disagreement.
As an exhibition, Dissonant Laws seeks to unpick the relationship between citizens, authority, and rebellious invention. How do laws create or engender artistic resistance? How can creative dissent in turn encourage new forms of legality?
Bringing together a group of artists, it explores notions of aesthetic resistance and rebellious acts taking the form of performance art, flash mobs, murals and sonic acts, often considering art movements that intentionally broke the law, creating radical reinterpretations of how groups of people might occupy space and responding to contexts where, at times, laws might need breaking.
Including works by: Mocksim, Distant Animals, Luce FM, Helen Dewhurst, Rhys Trimble, Sarah Holyfield, Andreas Philippoulos-Mihalopoulos, Sabina Andron, FU & Your A-Sides, Francesco Pizzocchero, Ken Clarry, Anat Sarna, Curtis Essel, Oğulcan Ekiz, Ni Shan, Alison Young, Kerry Baldry.
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‘Dissonance’ refers to a lack of harmony between musical notes, or people within society.
‘Laws’, refers to democratic or legislative ‘agreements’, either followed, or broken, by members of the community.
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Curated by Lucy FM + Distant Animals. Produced by Equalities Work.
A collaboration with MEANS magazine (www.meansmagazine.com) and LORE (Legal Origins Rights Education & Art) (www.lore.org.uk) with an accompanying magazine issue and online sound works.
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RESERVE YOUR PLACE:
EXHIBITION + PERFORMANCES: (Free)
FILM SCREENINGS: (Ticketed)
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