Programme
Saturday & Sunday
Four Chambers presents: THE STORY OF THE EYE, Fountain room 12pm – 6pm, strictly 18+
Step into Four Chambers’ world of erotic cinema and live art, where over a decade of radical, explicit video work and physical ephemera is brought to life through installations, talks and performances. Visitors can expect an immersive mirrored box from the film Echo Chamber (2025), pop-up activations with Vex Ashley, and a living archive that blurs cinema, performance, sexuality and fine art. This residency invites you to explore new ways of looking and being looked at, offering desire not as commodity but as language—an anatomy of queer, feminist and avant-garde erotic imaginaries that asks what it means to become your own voyeur.
Note: performances with Vex Ashley on Saturday only
Club to Couture, Level G Hub, all day
In this expanded archive, the fashion imaginary is traced through popular and underground culture. From leather to latex, the translation of identity into cultural production is a feedback loop of experience and representation. Forming and reforming the self through performances of reclamation and resistance is mediated by garments and objects. The wearing of these items creates a constellation of moments laced through subculture and club culture. These key pieces, selected by icons of our age traces a legacy of intimacy and queer identity as it enters the mainstream. Each lender opens a window onto their influences in this edited collection of ephemera that points to a set of tropes, codes, materials and desires. We look to the margins to inform the centre and ask: what is urgent about freedom and bodily autonomy today?
Club to Couture XXX, Level G Studio, 12pm – 6pm, strictly 18+
Leading figures from fashion, art and music select pieces that have influenced them from the world of sexual subculture, illuminating the spectrum from club to couture and tracing the legacy of kink and fetish as it enters the mainstream. This pop-up weekend installation presents the other half to the public installation in the hub, presenting the 18+ submissions for to Club to Couture.
Curated by Susanna Davies-Crook & Matt Skully
Saturday only
Dirty Books & Bits, Level G, 12pm - 6pm, strictly 18+
Visit Level G for a book and bits fair with an erotic edge foregrounding the body, love, desire and style as a source of creative inspiration for literature and fashion. Full details of the marketplace and sellers will be published at a later date.
Workshops, FreeStage, Level G strictly 18+
Embodied Connection: Exploring Presence and Pleasure
Led by Adele Brydges, this session invites participants to engage with the body and senses through guided practices that foster awareness, presence, and connection. The session combines participatory exercises and sensorial exploration to encourage reflection, curiosity, and a deeper experience of embodiment.
Matt Skully: Writing Sexual Subcultures
This workshop explores the cross over of embellishment and imagination, building on elements of truth and exaggerated experiences. We look at Jack Saul's Tales of the City and the Plain, and explore writings of historical sex workers. Pop up workshops and readings on the FreeStage will take place on the day, first come first served to participate.
Part of Dirty Weekend
Discover a weekend takeover this November celebrating fashion and filth with dirty talks, workshops, a sweaty club night and more...
Level G
Location
Level G,
Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS
Public transport
The Barbican is widely accessible by bus, tube, train and by foot or bicycle. Plan your journey and find more route information in ‘Your Visit’ or book your car parking space in advance.