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SHELF-LIFE
12/09/2026 6.30-9.30pm
SHELF-LIFE
12/09/2026 6.30-9.30pm
Visit V&A East Museum for SHELF-LIFE, part of The Music is Black Festival from East Bank. SHELF-LIFE is a high-fidelity listening experience where history is heard as much as it is seen. AMASSE invite a guest polymathic artist to requisition three distinct objects from the V&A collection, drawing lines between the physical heritage of the past and the sonic landscapes of today.
At the centre of the room sits an "Active Object" - a playable relic, surrounded by "Passive" archival artefacts. Responding directly to their textures, origins, and stories, the artist curates a live set on our audiophile sound system, playing records or creating sounds reflecting the way these objects feel.
Across the museum discover live DJ sets from ABIMBOLA and Jesse Bernard on the LIN KAM ART sound system, celebrating the breadth of Black British music. Experience musicians in session through a live instrumental jam with ORII.
SHELF-LIFE is a synaesthetic journey through Black British cultural identity, exploring music as a tool of protest, affirmation, and collective memory - tracing sonic lineages stretching from traditional African rhythms through colonial histories to the modern pulse of Black British music.
Visit V&A East Museum from 6.30-9.30pm on Saturday 12 September.
