Tate Modern 1st March 2025 - Performance. Storms of the Heart:Queeing the Cosmos of Memory by Poulomi Desai
Together celebrates the power of the human spirit to overcome hardship and shine a spotlight on communities most affected by Covid19.
Make an original max. 3 min video about your life for the Usurp Art Together project. Open to all art forms - poetry, music, dance, animation, performance, photography, comedy, storytelling - surprise us.
West Harrow Residents Community Action Group to discuss the future of our environment, sense of place, needs and community consultations in relation to council plans.
Photo group meeting
A charitable trust, set up to preserve, display & promote mechanical fairground organs and musical instruments playing by perforated music.
Mishti Dance presents: Conspirators of Pleasure | The Tuts | Kapil Seshasayee | Soundar Ananda
Usurp Art presents the premiere screening of “And I”, an eight hour collaborative video work by performance artist Marcia Farquhar filmmaker Reynir Hutber.
A season of contemporary films from India to mark 70 years of independence/partition.
An introduction to what the purse string holders mean by the creative industries, what they are dismantling and creating, where is the money, and how you can get involved in the debates.
An evening with Seema Anand, mythologist and story teller exploring erotic South Asian stories.
Usurp in collaboration with Waywords & Meansigns presents an evening of James Joyce with music & spoken word.
New electronic music from India, Pakistan & UK with Jamblu, Rudoh, Dushume + Special Guests.
Samia Malik’s ‘uncompromising’ yet ‘hauntingly beautiful’ work AZAADI: FREEDOM.
West Harrow Neighbours & Usurp are excited to announce an evening get-together.
Two buildings – the Delhi Parliament and Secretariat. Two instruments – an handmade “senso-stamen” flower noise machine and a circuit bent toy.
Disquiet are a series of random live events in New Delhi featuring experimental acoustics
Usurp was proud to present, in collaboration with the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi India, a selection of screenings from our acclaimed, experimental film festival, Usurp Zone5, featuring more than 50 works from over 15 countries.
Ohmsonic a night of noise & sound art in India
Poulomi Desai at Banana House Delhi - "Vermillion Sands"
Usurp celebrates International Women’s Month with the wonderful Kriti Film Club in Delhi and the "Projekt film and Photography Society" at Shri Ram College of Women.
We are hosting a six month project to mark the legacies of Shakespeare, Dada and Punk.
Excerpt from performance by Usurp Art's Conspirators of Pleasure who were surprise guests at the eclectic Reproduce Listening Room
Usurp Art's Conspirators of Pleasure at the Carnival of E-Creativity India
Part of the BFI Love season. We are hosting a special 30th anniversary screening of the beautifully, transgressive film ‘My Beautiful Laundrette’.
An extraordinary, four day film festival with 84 experimental short films by 63 artists and filmmakers.
The film Tyburnia illustrates the twists and turns of political whimsy, church and state, and the birth of capitalism.
Listen to the Conspirators of Pleasure performing live in the studio on Graham Dunning’s ‘Fractal Meat on a Spongy Bone’ radio show on NTS Live
Performance and sound installation with modified, luminous sitars, radios and explosive visuals.
Excerpt from improvised performance by the Conspirators of Pleasure at the Optophonic Festival Sheffield.
What might have Jackson Pollock’s canvas sounded like while he thrust, dripped and splattered paint on it?
This one is a bit special at The Tin Tabernacle in Kilburn.
Harrow's first ever Restart Party to repair or to help others learn how to repair. Take back control of your stuff, never feel victim to obsolescence again.
Two dynamic, ensemble performances, exploring perceptual concepts of chance, time, listening and humour, and the breadth and parameters of improvisational approaches in new music.
Fun-da-mental vocalist / DJ creates a space where Choubi music of Iraq meets bass-laden electronica. Where experimental music collides with hip hop or Ragas audible somewhere in the mix.
A meeting on The Adult Dependent Relative (ADR) Rule that has effectively closed the route for British citizens and residents to sponsor a non-EEA adult dependent relative to live with them in the UK.
British artist Nazneen Ayyub-Wood will be making a ‘Test-hibition’ of her new project, which involves experimenting with Velcro to make walls and outfits.
The virtuosic CRAM collective with their relentless energy, verve and imagination will be exploring new, challenging sound worlds.
Usurp is thrilled to welcome Dame Evelyn Glennie for a Q&A at our screening of "Touch the Sound", the acclaimed film about her musical ethos and inspirations.
The Conspirators of Pleasure (Poulomi Desai and Simon Underwood) perform at The Resound Sound Art Festival in Penzance.
An extract from the full performance by The Conspirators of Pleasure at Miss Havisham Presents' at the Old Cholmeley Boys Club in London.
‘Miss Havisham presents’ at The Cholmondely Boys Club, Dalston, London featuring various artists.
Our Debut Zine Fair will be taking place on Saturday 28th April 2012 at the Usurp Gallery. We are currently seeking Contributors, Volunteers & Spreakers.
Usurp is pleased to screen a very special, award winning, documentary film for one night following sold out screenings at the BFI recently.
Join the Shashi Collective and KING WITH NO THRONE for a night of Trance, Acoustic, Hip hop, Pop, Garage and a few more sounds thrown in the mix.
One off sound-art performance event conceived by Paul Chivers and promoted in conjunction with Currys and the Usurp Art Gallery
One-night only special performance event with Kusum Normoyle from Australia, Steve Beresford Alan Tomlinson and Disinformation.
Special comedy night at Usurp - the only preview in London before his Edinburgh Festival tour! Jeff Mirza's hilarious jihadi fuelled 'faith off' about world beliefs fresh from a tour of Saudi Arabia.
A hight of free-improv featuring Steve Beresford, Angharad Davies , The Stargazers Assistant, Disinformation
KillaVolts present an eclectic and electric fusion of Future Bass, Minimal, Folktronica and Dub, performed live using a combination of synths, laptops, midi controllers and traditional instruments.
18 artists and performers take over Usurp to play, process, pretend and ponder the possibilities…
We're back louder, harder and faster than ever! Freestyling poets and DJs collide to bring you a night of dancing and dreams among UV reactive artwork.
The noisiest, dirtiest drum ‘n’ bass sub-sub genres are hitting Harrow…
Free-improv sounds featuring Adam Bohman, Leila Dear, Mark Pilkington, Rodrigo Montoya, Steve Beresford, Tania Chen, Zali Krishna.
A night of free-improv featuring Tania Chen, Lol Coxhill, Max Eastley, Guillaume Viltard, Disinformation, Steve Beresford.
