Décalé – curatorial + discursive platform, and clubnight series, is back!

‘When dusk arises, agitated spirits awake
A night on planet earth, Décalé
A platform for nocturnal creatures and loud existential insurgents
Disobedient children will come together and rise from the dark
to encounter experimental collapsing, flawless sounds, visuals and people.
Together they will declare the unspoken, and embrace the hybrid and reactive nature
of their collective experience.

Together, we rewrite reality now, against distorted norms, for an alternate tomorrow.’

Our intention is to break down the boundaries of what a 'night' could be framed as, subverting the frontiers of performativity with live music and DJ sets.
Our nights are designed in a way that elevates immersivity and connections between people, particularly for the transgenerational LGBTQIA+ communities and their allies.
Décalé’s mission is to create a safe and fun space in an heartwarming environment reinvigorated by visuals and uncompromising sound.
There is no tolerance for racist, homophobic, transphobic, ageist, ableist or any other abusive behaviors.
Décalé is programmed and run by Chooc Ly Tan and Anne Duffau.

Special thanks to Flora Yin-Wong and Space 289
Flyer by Opashona Ghosh

IKONIKA

After more than ten years, three albums, a dozen EPs, and gigs all over the globe, Ikonika is one of the most respected names in the UK bass diaspora. Best known for her numerous releases on and affiliation with Hyperdub Records, her most recent EPs on DBA and Night Slugs offer a glimpse of an artist ever in motion, light years away from the post-dubstep landscape where she first made her name. While certain aspects of her sound remain consistent – a love of club-friendly rhythms purpose built with digital flair – the diversity of her interests ¬– pop, R&B, bashment – have become more evident.
As a DJ, Andrew Ryce got it about right in a review for Resident Advisor when he said, “She's a criminally underrated DJ who breezes through whiplash-inducing tempo or style changes.” Musically adventurous, expertly mixed, but always in the groove, Ikonika DJ sets are up-to-the-minute journeys of the club space now.
https://soundcloud.com/ikonika

POULOMI DESAI

Poulomi Desai's unique, modified sitar and home-made instruments embrace elements of chance, challenge and subversion - industrial, noise influenced improvised, art performances. Her sitar is extended with modified cassette decks playing her field recordings, circuit bent toys, optikinetic instruments, kitchen knives, axes and massage tools. It is a conscious response and reaction to the idea of 'authenticity' seeking to break the rules and expectations of how a 'sacred' instrument should be played, the strictures upon the player, the guru-shishya approach, and the assumptions made upon the identity of the player herself. Her sitar is the primary basis for sonic improvisation and exploration; an allegorical antidote to the objectification of the 'South Asian woman's body' in 'Bollywood' cinema / 'popular culture' and, in a broader sense, affirming her idea of 'Noise' as protest. She runs the Usurp Art Charity and is an Oram Award winner.
https://poulomidesai.tumblr.com/

MONICA TOLIA

Monica Tolia is a London-based visual artist, performer & organiser. Their multidisciplinary practice culminates into sensory installations and performances drawing on communal ritual acts, animist & Taoist spiritual themes as decolonial approaches to inhabiting space together. Their research is based on how non-Western knowledge practices can inform collective-building, deep connections & healing amongst human and more-than-human worlds, contemplating critical questions with regard to influences of technology & political reality. Recent commissions & awards include shapesLewisham Grant for Lunar New Year Festival (2022), a-n Artists Bursary (2022), Deptford X Festival (2021) & Trinity Laban Ignite Award (2021). Since 2021, they are co-founder of the ESEA diaspora collective ‘Have you eaten yet?’, organising performance events on the intersections of food, migration, art/activism & creating affectionate space.
http://www.monicatolia.com/

CHOOC LY

Chooc Ly is an artist, DJ & voyager. With a penchant for electronic music. Her DJ sets are dance-floor focused, forging astral connections through spectrums of Techno, Hip Hop and futuristic club music through to fusions we haven’t found names for yet. Chooc Ly has recently played at Swallow, a queer nightclub in LA; Regenerative Feedback at WORM, Rotterdam; The Living Art Museum, in Reykjavik, Iceland; and GGI 끼 at The Yard, London.
https://linktr.ee/chooclytan

ALPHA

Anne Duffau is a cultural producer, researcher, and founder of A—Z, an exploratory/nomadic curatorial platform. A---Z aims at opening up to audiences by sharing discursive practices in order to challenge preconceived ideas on race, gender identities and the so-called history in terms of power relationship. Anne was the interim curator at Wysing for the Polyphonic Festival 2020/2021 Editions, & a Tutor at the Royal College of Art’s Contemporary Art Practice Programme. She is part of the collecitve Transmissions.tv and Décalé. She produces live music under Alpha through several projects and collaborations (Décalé, MAENADS, Polisonics).
https://linktr.ee/A___Z

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/36166