BHAM💥 The Black Hole Aesthetic Machine will unfold as a reading/ performance at Putney Library, London on the 19th of March, 2025, from 6 PM.
Booking required: Order ticket’s here
Framed as an imaginary product and service, BHAM💥 processes whatever temporary configurations encounter it – human, machine, or otherwise – offering guidance not toward improvement or optimisation, but toward coming to terms with technological obsolescence and the limits of identity maintenance in an information-saturated culture.
Assembled from image, dialogue, and speculative self-help rhetoric, the work stages a presentation that may resemble a sales pitch, a manifesto, or a deadpan instructional seminar. BHAM💥 has no interest in interpretation, whether as sincere endorsement, dark humour, or outright rejection.
An audience is invited to attend, play and contribute to the speculation. Refreshments will be provided.
A reading by Sarah-Jane Field with games will be followed by a talk delivered by The Doughnut(W)Hole curator, Kim Shaw. A BHAM💥 book (or do we mean a brochure? 😉) will be available to purchase.
BHAM💥 was developed for The Doughnut(W)Hole Pavilion as part of The Wrong Biennale (7th Edition) 2025–26.
This is a free public event. If you wish, you can make a voluntary donation in lieu of a ticket price to Earlsfield Food Bank, based at St Andrew’s Church on Garratt Lane. Donate here
This event is supported by The Mayor's London Borough of Culture.
Wandsworth is the Mayor’s London Borough of Culture 2025.
Led by Wandsworth Council in partnership with local people and organisations, Welcome to Wandsworth will be a year-long programme featuring hundreds of cultural events and creative initiatives, taking place from April 2025 – March 2026.
From Roehampton to Battersea, Tooting to Putney, we are preparing to stage a spectacular year where every corner of the borough comes alive in an explosion of creativity, and everyone is invited. We will come together to celebrate our heritage and our diverse communities, supercharging our health and happiness.
Introduced by the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, London Borough of Culture is an award that sees London’s 32 boroughs bid for funding to stage a year-long cultural programme. Wandsworth follows Croydon (2023), Lewisham (2021), Brent (2020) and Waltham Forest (2019).