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Performance & Reading: ONEIRISMS

Reading, Reflecting, Exhibition

18:30-22:00

In this closing event of the exhibition of Iva Drekalovic the oneiric unfolds as a space for reciprocal metamorphosis. We explore the liminality between the real and the imaginative, a site where desire and trauma entangle and the unconscious emerges.

Performers: Alessia Arcuri, Cat Feliciano, Maddalena Iodice, Molly Emma.

Bios:
Cat Feliciano is a British-Portuguese writer and artist who works between performance, text, video and photography, with special focus on the relationships between these forms. Her practice acutely mines the intimate, physical and psychological experience of loss in her narrative-based work. With presentation at Notes.Journal, Mimosa House, One In The Other Camden Art Centre, The British Museum, Subtexts, G-String Theory, Dalston Superstore. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Queen Mary University London.

Maddalena Iodice (1992, Italy) is an artist and curator based in London working at the intersection of visual art, poetry, somatics, and sound. Her practice frames the body as a living site of knowledge, a porous threshold where histories, desires, and haptic modes of being converge and transform. This inquiry unfolds through a dual path: a performative practice that activates words-making, voice and corporeal presence, and a curatorial stance engaging with the work of contemporary emerging artists. Recent performances include: Prossima Distanza with Giuditta Vettese, Triennale Museum, Milan, 2025, Countertongue, The George Tavern, London, 2025.

Alessia Arcuri (she/they) is interested in how language is made material through voice, body and text. Their practice and research take the form of text-based experimentations, events and workshop formats, realised through both independent and collaborative processes. Alessia has presented work at Tate Britain, ICA, Mozilla Foundation and Chisenhale Dance Space. Currently, they explore the relationship between somatic practices, publishing andnon-virtuoso performance as a doctoral researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Molly Emma is an artist working between the word, photography, performance, sound and publishing to explore body, memory and the subconscious. She is the founder of publishing imprint madly awake, under which she presents visual and poetic book works and hosts surrealist writing workshops.