Rie Nakajima & David Toop: Live performance | Ikon Gallery

Rie Nakajima and David Toop perform live at Ikon Gallery on 22 May as part of a series of collaborative performances to compliment Nakajima’s Ikon exhibition Cyclic, open 21 March — 3 June 2018. David Toop and Rie Nakajima work collaboratively in the fields of time, cooking and flower arranging but there are no clocks, no food to eat, no flowers, only the assemblage of temporary architecture, the sculpting of materials and the awakening of hibernating beings. Rie Nakajima is one of the most experimental artists working in the UK. Fusing sculpture and sound, her artistic practice is open to chance and the influence of others, raising important questions about the definition of art. Nakajima makes pieces often in direct response to architectural space, using a combination of kinetic devices, musical instruments and found objects. Ikon’s exhibition consists entirely of new work and includes a number of performances in collaboration with other artists.