Two days, two chapters, across three exhibition spaces and one theatre.
Theatre, sound art and immersive work exploring life and death.
SHOWTALK x Wordtide Theatre
On 26–27 September, As We Lay Dying brings immersive art and theatre to London’s Hoxton Hall. Across three exhibition rooms and one main auditorium, sound, moving image, bodies and materials connect close encounters with shared watching and listening.
Meet fourteen artists, curators and creative and production team members behind As We Lay Dying. Explore practices spanning sound, photography, costume, digital art and music, alongside lighting, technical work and production coordination.
Plan the two days with room locations, the detailed theatre-day running order and clear distinctions between published information, editorial suggestions and details still to confirm.
Seventeen answers covering dates, booking, language, captions, access, sensory information, recording and VR participation, with unresolved details clearly identified.
Low-frequency sound, changing light and sculptural forms turn May Scott Studio into a cave-like environment shaped by human and non-human life.
Within a space inspired by a Victorian dollhouse, costume, textiles, sculpture and interactive installation explore presence and absence through vibration, touch, sound and structure.
Reading Room brings together workshops, VR, ritual, live performance, painting and moving image, inviting different ways of moving through, encountering and participating in the room.
Kirsi Pirhonen’s Pako (2025) combines recycled metal, steel, yarn and recycled textiles in a 40 × 40 × 10 cm sculptural work, presented in Before the Gesture in Palmer Room.
Credited to Tay, this dance film opens the 27 September film programme with a listed running time of 4 minutes 3 seconds.
Xiaohan Luo’s No Traveller Returns is listed as a Special Film at 14:04, with a running time of 7 minutes 38 seconds.
Zijing Chen’s Amblyopia is the animation entry in the film sequence, scheduled for 14:11 and listed at 2 minutes 11 seconds.
Hantao Li’s Giants’ Anatomy is the science-fiction entry, scheduled for 14:13 with a listed running time of 12 minutes 51 seconds.
Credited to Central Drama Lab, Yi Tang, Yitong Fu and Xiaoran Luo, this entry appears in the film block under the label Live Theatre (Film block), with a listed duration of 4 minutes 19 seconds.
Dongting Huang’s Last Night We May Have Died is listed at 14:31 as Live Performance (Film block), with a duration of 3 minutes 49 seconds.
Golden, credited to Tash Tung and Lucinda Chua, is scheduled as a music film at 14:34, with a running time of 6 minutes 59 seconds.
Aolei Kang’s documentary Letters for Christmas appears near the end of the film block at 14:41, with a listed duration of 5 minutes 50 seconds.
Zahra Baqer’s art film 36 Hours closes the film block at 14:47, with a listed running time of 5 minutes.
Funeral Song by Fraser Scowen and Ziyue Wang opens the live programme at 14:52, with a listed duration of 10 minutes.
Alstroemeria is an audiovisual programme entry credited to Ben Thorn, Rysia Kaczmar and Theo Power, scheduled for 15:07 and listed at 15 minutes.
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This audiovisual entry is credited to Mal Seward, Severin Salvenmoser, Emily Marks and Finty Woolf, with a 15:32 slot and a listed duration of 20 minutes.
The Last Supper Club is the black-comedy entry at 16:02, listed at 20 minutes and credited as “Lydia Vie represents Theatre Lab Company”.
Echo of the Moon is a puppetry entry credited to Aqiong Zhang and Blanka Szentandrássy, scheduled for 16:32 with a listed duration of 18 minutes.
Muerto en Vida, credited to Jesu Piceno and Ester Ricci, is a 20-minute audiovisual entry at 17:00, followed by the programme’s listed 30-minute interval.
Black Ash, credited to Hangrui Zhang and Yuchen Li, opens the post-interval section as an immersive-theatre entry at 17:50, listed at 25 minutes.
Seasons by Mimi and Mark is the evening programme’s folk-music entry, scheduled for 18:23 with a listed duration of 15 minutes.
Cosmology in Recognition is listed as dance theatre and opera, with seven credited contributors, an 18:48 slot and a 30-minute duration.
The Inverted Realm is a spoken-word programme entry featuring eight credited participants, scheduled for 19:28 with a listed duration of 55 minutes.
Adam Stanovic’s Between Pictures shares the 20:31 electronic-music slot with Inja and To Us.S..S.... The three-work block is listed at 30 minutes in total.
Revival by Juice Cui and Santi Lowe is the closing performance, scheduled in the detailed programme for 21:09 with a duration of 5 minutes.