Summer return of Lines of Flight - May - July 2026
APRIL 2026, London, UK - This summer, CASA brings Lines of Flight back to Brixton House with a new season of exhibitions, residencies, performances and public events exploring transnational experience, collective artistic process, and the social and political systems that shape contemporary life.
From May to July 2026, the programme moves through two distinct chapters: Transnational Encounters in May, and Systems in Question across June and July.
Alongside the live and in-person programme, the summer chapters are accompanied by On Record: Where We Move Sideways, an editorial series developed by Not The Owners to extend the programme’s curatorial questions into a parallel discursive space.
Curated by Gabriela Román González, Lines of Flight is CASA’s ongoing multi-arts programme at Brixton House, unfolding across the year through changing themes that open up new ways of gathering with art from Latin America, the Caribbean and their diasporas. At its core, the programme asks what it means to create, exhibit and experience art without relying on fixed truths or definitive answers, turning instead towards ambiguity, contradiction and the unfinished as fertile ground for imagination.
Transnational Encounters
11 - 30 May 2026 | Brixton House
Opening the summer programme, Transnational Encounters unfolds across May through an exhibition, a residency and a live programme, exploring how movement across borders, at once a human right and a site of tension, shapes contemporary life, and how its frictions, negotiations and reimaginings take form within artistic practice.
At its centre is the exhibition I’ve grown tired / I’ve grown hopeful (13 - 22 May), presented by CASA in collaboration with Not The Owners and Brixton House. It will showcase artworks by artists Daniel Bernal, enorê, María Joranko, and Elena Saraceni. Taking its cue from the tension held in its title, the exhibition brings together practices that approach contemporary experience through different sensibilities, materials and visual languages. Moving across myth, speculative world-building, embodiment, technology and critique, it reflects the varied ways contemporary experience can shape artistic form.
Diasporas Now are also a key part of the chapter, joining the programme as collective-in-residence this May. Centred on shared process and collective making, the residency explores what it means to create together across cultures and lived experiences, without flattening difference, opening up questions of authorship, care, decision-making and collaboration.
At the centre of the residency is Formula, an evolving R&D process through which the collective reflects on and reimagines how they work together.
The chapter culminates in a live programme on 30 May, bringing audiences into direct contact with the artistic process. The day includes a clay workshop led by Home Sick Art Collective, and the public presentation of Formula by Diasporas Now at 2:00 pm in Theatre 2, Brixton House.
Systems in Question
June - 4 July 2026 | Brixton House
Running across June and July, Systems in Question turns towards live art, moving image and participation to explore how art can make visible, challenge and at times interrupt the ways power operates through rules, permissions and structures shaping how bodies move, gather and become visible in everyday life, and why it matters to question those systems collectively.
At its core is a Live Art Residency developed in collaboration with Performance Art Video, and with support from Live Art Development Agency (LADA) and IKLECTIK. The residency invites artists working across live and hybrid practices to develop new work in response to these questions, offering time, space and support for experimentation around visibility, control, access and the conditions that shape public life.
The chapter culminates in a day-long public programme on 4 July, presented across Brixton House. The programme offers multiple entry points into the themes of Systems in Question, including a panel discussion exploring artistic practices and archives, a performance presentation and newly commissioned exhibition featuring artists Ile Sartuzi and Débora Delmar.
