DISTANCE is a roaming performance festival that explores our relationship with distance, now and into the future.

On 15th and 16th October, DISTANCE Festival is presented in London by LIFT at the ICA: a weekend of performances, activities, and conversations over meals.

This year, DISTANCE has invited artists inspired by the distances between Riga, London and Newcastle to create and develop new work that responds to three cities, three festivals, and you. From Ryanair to migration, trespass to Skype, from new technology to age-old customs, we face a multitude of choices as to how we engage with people across the world and across the street.

You are warmly invited to take part in DISTANCE’s second stop of three cities. Discover each artist’s evolving response to the distances they have encountered: Take part in weather balloon transmissions, fleeting fieldtrips across computer desktops, conversations with zoo keepers, adjustments to our borderlines, and walks measured by our hands and hearts. 

The events are free and ticketed.

To book tickets email the name of the show and time you wish to attend with your name and email to distance@liftfestival.com

Click here to download the DISTANCE Festival programme.

DISTANCE artists are: Field Broadcast (London, UK) featuring Nomadi (Riga, Latvia), Rob Smith (London, UK) and Séan Maltby (Newcastle, UK); Peter J Evans (Newcastle, UK); Ruti Sela and Maayan Amir (Extraterritoriality); Sorrel Muggridge and Laura Nanni (Norwich, UK and Toronto, Canada); Steve Levon Ounanian (Los Angeles, USA) and Valters Sīlis (Riga, Latvia). 

For more information about DISTANCE's journey so far www.fromadistance.co.uk

Timings and location: 

Saturday 15th October 12-10pm

Sunday 16th October 12 – 6pm

ICA Members Studio

DISTANCE is a Festlab residency between LIFT, Homo Novus and Wunderbar as part of the Festivals In Transition (FIT) network, supported by the EU Culture Programme and Arts Council England.

Get ready for DISTANCE by installing Field Broadcast:

Over the duration of DISTANCE, Field Broadcast will bring three artists live to your computer desktop, direct from the remote landscapes in which they are broadcasting. Unannounced, these broadcasts create a playful interruption to your daily life, allowing you to take a field trip to a place somewhere else.

Field Broadcast is a live broadcasting network and platform that enables artists to make artworks that forge a direct link between the place they are broadcasting from and your computer desktop. To catch these broadcasts over the duration of DISTANCE, download the Field Broadcast software below or at www.fieldbroadcast.org, which will ‘ping’ and display the broadcasts from Nomadi, Rob Smith and Séan Maltby as they go live.