Step into a live performance emerging from Diasporas Now’s residency during Transnational Encounters, exploring what it means to create together across cultures and lived experience.
Presented by CASA in collaboration Counterpoints Arts and Brixton House
Part of Diasporas Now’s residency in Transnational Encounters
Curated and produced by Gabriela Román González
Developed during their residency as part of Transnational Encounters, Formula is an evolving work-in-progress by Diasporas Now, reflecting on the conditions and processes of collective creation.
Working across different cultural contexts and lived experiences, the collective explores how collaboration can take shape without flattening difference — navigating questions of authorship, care, decision-making and shared language through performance.
Rather than presenting a finished work, Formula offers a live moment within an ongoing process, inviting audiences into the dynamics, tensions and possibilities that emerge when artistic practice is developed collectively.
Part of Lines of Flight
Presented as part of the live programme on 30 May, this performance sits within Transnational Encounters, a chapter of Lines of Flight, CASA’s multi-arts programme at Brixton House exploring how artistic practices are shaped across movement, exchange and lived experience.
Practical information
Location: Theatre 2, Brixton House
Date: 30 May 2026
Duration: 2 hours
Pay What You Feel
About Diasporas Now
Diasporas Now is a live art platform founded by RIEKO, Lulu Wang, and Paola Estrella in 2021 at the Royal College of Art. As the ICA’s current collective in residence, they are collaborating on the Speaking Futures programme – a yearlong series of talks, workshops and performances exploring artists as catalysts for imagining and shaping the future.
More about RIEKO, Lulu Wang and Paola Estrella bellow:
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Japanese-born artist and composer whose multidisciplinary practice is part of an ongoing mythological world-building project. Weaving ritual performance, experimental music, and collective healing workshops with curation and community building, her work prototypes alternative futures and cultural systems through oracular, artist-led intuition.
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Chinese interdisciplinary artist drawing inspiration from her heritage and digital subcultures to explore hybrid identities and connections across humanity and social relationships. Through sculpture making, installation, and immersive choreography, her practice revolves around visual work in collaboration with technology, fashion, and music.
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Mexican artist whose practice explores intimacy, identity, and belief, using speculative fiction to hold multiple worldviews together. Working at the intersection of ecology, spirituality, and technology, her work examines how meaning is formed and how we come to agree on what is real, allowing different registers of experience to meet without hierarchy.