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NC Live at South London Gallery

Saturday 11 Apr 2026, 2pm – 5pm

Join us for NC Live, a dynamic programme of live works by artists Alia Gargum, Makiko Harris, Will Pham and The VLC Band, and Christopher Steenson. This event includes spoken word, performance, live music and choreographed works by New Contemporaries exhibiting artists.

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NC Live takes place at the South London Gallery.

£10/£5 members & concessions.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Alia Gargum is a an artist working with sculpture and installation. She composes her work through critical and personal exploration of politics and culture, focusing on her heritage through diasporic means.

Alia Gargum studio photo credit Rachel Deakin.
Alia Gargum studio photo credit Rachel Deakin.

Makiko Harris is an interdisciplinary artist exploring feminism, identity and desire through painting, sculpture, moving image and sound. Merging symbolic forms and digital processes, her work questions intimacy, spectatorship and corporeal knowledge.

Makiko Harris photo credit Carlos Basilisco
Makiko Harris photo credit Carlos Basilisco

Will Pham is a British-Vietnamese artist exploring themes of intergenerational care, displacement and the Vietnamese resettlement experience to the UK. His approach often begins with archival research blending with his own personal memory, to reactivate a sensorial and bodily relation to memory, history and place-making. The VLC Band are a troupe of musicians primarily from Vietnam, led by Mr Lai. They are based at Centre 151, a Hackney-based community centre set up in 1985, formerly known as the Community Centre for Refugees from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia (VLC). The band members include Dan Tran, Doc Ngo, Thanh Long, Frankie, Hung, Hùng, Quang, Ngọc Nga, Quyen and with special guests including Duy Khiem.

Will Pham and The VLC Band, You Belong Here, Southbank Centre, 2025, photo credit Pete Woodhead
Will Pham and The VLC Band, You Belong Here, Southbank Centre, 2025, photo credit Pete Woodhead

Christopher Steenson works across sound, text, lens-based media and digital systems to interrogate the politics of time, environment and more-than-human relations. Through these concerns, he seeks to make work in which we can listen to the future.

Christopher Steenson (with Caimin Walsh), Each one started, each one started, each one started – A Lecture Performance for Ormston House, 2024, photo by Shane Vaughan
Christopher Steenson (with Caimin Walsh), Each one started, each one started, each one started – A Lecture Performance for Ormston House, 2024, photo by Shane Vaughan

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Installation view, New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, 2026. Photo: Oli Cowling
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