Collision

Collision, devised by Artistic Director Jude Kelly and Jeremy Deller, is a radical development period for Southbank Centre’s Artists in Residence, audience and the staff of Southbank Centre to test current creative and organisational practice and forge new artistic relationships and ways of working.

Artists in Residence include visual artists Jeremy Deller and Jane and Louise Wilson; poets Lemn Sissay and Simon Armitage; kathak dancer and choreographer Gauri Sharma Tripathi; beat-boxer,Shlomo; cellist Oliver Coates; 11-piece folk band Bellowhead; cultural theorist and composer Paul Morley; video journalist David Dunkley Gyimah; art & climate change pioneers Cape Farewell; and the creative industry think-tank New Deal of the Mind.

Each Artist in Residence has identified another artist they wish to join them in creative dialogue. Those artists joining Collision by invite include poet Lebogang Mashile; musicians Dave Clark, Jagdish Mistry, Mica Levi and Colin Currie; writers Anna Minton and Will Montgomery; film-makers Mark Cousins and Penny Woolcock; and architects Eyal Weizman and Shumon Basar.

Read more on the Collision blog