ESEA unseen: Fabulation

Line-up
1pm: Sound Bath with Sound Mirror
2pm: DJ set Raimund Wong
2.30pm: ESEA Life Drawing with DJ Raimund Wong
4pm: Performance Labada Monologues
4.30pm: DJ set Raimund Wong

Sound Mirror is a composer and sound therapist who uses electronic noisescapes blended with traditional acoustic instruments to create liminal experiences that blur the edges of dreams and consciousness.

Raimund Wong has a diverse graphic and sound practice that draws on musique concrète and dub. He strives to present an optimistic, eternal view of mankind where sounds and voices from disparate space and time can work together in harmony. Alongside Chestnutt (Snapped Ankles) he leads the ‘loud ambient’ group Floating World Pictures, and he is most recognised for his graphic work for numerous UK and international music entities such as Alabaster DePlume, International Anthem, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Mr. Bongo. He is the host of A Record of Living Beings on Soho Radio.

ESEA Life Drawing hosts monthly life drawing classes that celebrate East and South East Asian bodies. By exclusively collaborating with life models from ESEA backgrounds, who are often marginalised, they foster an inclusive environment where these individuals feel acknowledged and valued. Aside from their innovative themes, ESEA Life Drawing are also known for their friendly and relaxed approach, offering light guidance and playing the best tunes. Since their launch in 2022, they have garnered a dedicated following, engaging with both grassroots communities and prominent organisations such as Nike and Kew Gardens.

In the Labada Monologues, join in a movement piece between two sisters exploring their understanding of home, belonging and sisterhood while putting up the laundry!

Chi Sandford is a Filipino-British multidisciplinary artist and writer. As a BA Drama & Performance graduate from London South Bank University, Sandford allows the medium to form after the story is found, championing the stories her mother would shyly tell her in passing. The mundane has always been the access point to hearing beautiful stories of her mother’s childhood in the Philippines. Recognising the voice of her mother represents many in the diaspora, Sandford wants to share the vibrancy and journeying of many women.

Sarah-Luna Ace is an English and Filipino artist and theatre maker. In recent years, death and grief were the whispers that led her heart back to the arts community. She is on a journey of exploring vulnerability and art, touching on themes such as otherness, Britishness and faith. Ace’s aim is to tell stories authentically in spaces where they have not traditionally been told, by voices that have not traditionally been championed.

ESEA unseen are Kim Chin and Sue Man, two multidisciplinary artists who met through London’s creative music and social circles during the early 2000s.

They reconnected with each other years later through staging interventions fighting for intersectional social and climate justice. Their work uses experimental textiles, conversations and social engagement as a vehicle to heal, connect, and build resistance.

By working with arts, learning, and community networks, these experiences combine to create public facing events where people can come together, celebrate their experiences, and imagine spaces of cultural exchange that thrive beyond structures of colonial oppression.

This summer, we’re collaborating with a range of London-based collectives and organisations to curate the Riverside Stage in response to the theme of our season, You Belong Here, enabling these collaborators to welcome different audiences and recognise how they want and choose to belong here at the Southbank Centre.