Temporarily Closed Opening Performances

Curators

Jael Arazi

A public programme, organised alongside ‘Temporarily Closed’ curated by Jael Arazi, will take place during the exhibition opening at ANNEX on Thursday 25th November from 6pm.

Fraser Scowen
15-25 minutes
The set will look to create a sonic liminal space through the use of sampled audio and synthesizer sound. For the performance, the artist intends to process a prepared audio tape mixing this with live electronic elements and reprocessing both through his hand made synthesiser systems to create a dark ambient soundscape which degrades over time.

Fraser Scowen is an artist and instrument maker based in South East London. His works primarily focus on sonic interactions and object ontology through the creation of unique sonic objects and circuit based instruments, emphasising materials and esoteric interfaces. Working both within gallery settings, live performance and releasing music and recordings under various project names, these works often look at object/user interactions and explore themes around memory and place.

Tabitha Haynes - “Retinker”
10 minutes
Live music with audio samples of construction work, old personal recordings of conversations, set at 72 bpm; the average rate of the human heartbeat

Tabitha Haynes produce srhythmic soundscapes, structured around circadian rhythms such as breathing, and the human heart beat - often in conversation with the exhibited works, and the architectural elements they are situated in - highlighting the sonic histories of the space.

Josh Philpott - “Proposal for Closure”
15 minutes
Spoken word performance reading from a poem, walking around the space and minor interactions with people and installations. All doors will be temporarily closed with hazard tape, cut at the end of the performance.
For Proposal for A Closure (2025), Josh will perform an action to temporarily close the gallery for the opening of Temporarily Closed. Following this action, Josh will read Proposal to read unrealised proposals (2024 - ongoing), an iterative poetic reading of proposals for unrealised artworks. Josh writes proposals akin to performance scores; executing his work is a bodily performance from which the remaining traces are exhibited as drawings, site-specific interventions, writing, etc. His proposals sit as an embodied practice of art alongside practices of relationship, community, living with cystic fibrosis, etc. Proposal to hold space for emergent relations through intertwined practices.

Josh Philpott makes work about boundaries and potentials. Staging poetic interventions to be found in public and gallery spaces, his situational practice invites contemplation of quiet absurdities in the built environment. Recent interventions include A Bit Like A Sign, Conditions, Croydon, UK (2025); Siren Songs on NTS Live 2 radio (2025), Light Beams Under A Bridge, screening under a railway bridge over Regent’s Canal, London, UK (2024). He curated Poems for A Gap In the Door at Conditions Studios Project Space, Croydon, UK (2023). He has been a member of Conditions Studio Programme since 2019.

Yujie Duan – “On Co-Duty”
10-15 minutes

On Co-Duty is a continuous, evolving performance project that examines the aesthetics, politics, and sonic dimensions of maintenance labour. By amplifying the repetitive gestures of cleaning and service, it gives voice not only to the workers but also to the tools that accompany them. The performance reimagines these often invisible acts of upkeep as collective, sensorial, and performative practices. Through surreal and uncanny aesthetics combined with choreographic exploration, On Co-Duty highlights the tension between individual agency, shared labour, and the undervalued economic and emotional weight of care.

Yujie Duan is a London-based contemporary video artist. Educated at UAL–Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art, her practice explores the complexities of female labour, with a particular focus on service-related activities such as cleaning. Through her works, she investigates the gestures and performative movements inherent in everyday routines, framing them as sites for broader social commentary. Duan’s practice merges surreal aesthetics with elements of absurdity and the uncanny, drawing on psychoanalytic thought and choreographic insights to highlight the tension between identity, resilience, and the undervaluation of women’s work. Her evolving video and performance projects invite audiences to reconsider the hidden depths of ordinary life and the enduring human spirit that animates it.