Décalé is a discursive artist platform and club night that showcases experiments in sound, art, performance, and moving images. Décalé works to amplify marginalised and unrepresented artistic voices by showcasing their work in experiential settings and events in various spaces, from alternative grass-roots music venues, radiobroadcast and theatre to institutional spaces. The program holds space for accessibility, inclusivity, and worldbuilding.

The platform is run by multidisciplinary artists-curators Chooc Ly Tan, Kadeem Oak, and Leïla Arenou and was co-founded with cultural producer Anne Duffau. They have curated the programs through an intersectional feminist and decolonial lens and sometimes invited guest curators.Décalé aims to promote talented artists, music producers, and DJs disadvantaged by societal and commercial norms.

To be "Décalé" is to be displaced in space and time.

The club night series took off with the support of DIY Space for London, their first home (Décalé 1,2 & 3); since then, the platform has put on nights at Ormside Projects (Décalé x Jupiter Woods; Décalé 21.11.2024) and The Yard Theatre where they undertook a residency in 2023-2024; they ignited the subterranean space of Somerset House studios (for their annual AGM), and gave talk and performed at Landmark's adventurous festival Poekhali!, organised in collaboration with Borealis, at Bergen Kunsthall, in Norway. Most recently, the platform was awarded a Project Grant from Arts Council England and the Fluxus Art Projects Fund.

• Tan, Chooc Ly. 2024. Décalé. In: "Décalé", The Yard Theatre, London, United Kingdom, 18 April 2024. [Show/Exhibition]
• Tan, Chooc Ly. 2023. Décalé X 144. In: "Décalé X 144", The Yard Theatre, London, United Kingdom, 1 June 2023. [Show/Exhibition]
• Tan, Chooc Ly. 2023. LUNAR LATE: YEAR OF THE QUEER RABBIT. In: "LUNAR LATE: YEAR OF THE QUEER RABBIT", Matchstick Piehouse, London, United Kingdom, 20 January 2023. [Show/Exhibition]
• Tan, Chooc Ly. 2022. Décalé x Chinabot. In: "Décalé x Chinabot", The Yard Theatre, London, United Kingdom, 25 November 2022. [Show/Exhibition]
• Tan, Chooc Ly. 2022. Décalé 6. In: "Décalé 6", Space 289, London, United Kingdom, 18 June 2022. [Show/Exhibition]

Décalé has worked with artists in the fields of/at the intersection between visual arts, sound, poetry, and movements through restorative community events, club nights, workshops, and radio podcasts. See below for detailed programs:

EVENTS/RADIO/WORKSHOPS/ARTISTS & CURATORS' CONTRBUTIONS:

19.01.2025 | Décalé Radio w/ mellowdramatics (B.O.S.S) @ Cubitt Community Radio:
Artists: Chaniah, Fatima, Jahnaey, Jenesis, Kaliyam, Lydia, Precious, Sali, Samantha and Zarah Workshop facilitator and Sound engineery: mellowdramatics
"This broadcast is the work of the minds of an amazing group of year ten and eleven students at St. Saviours & St. Olave’s school for girls in Southwark, South East London. Brought to you through Soundtrap, y2mate.nu and voice memos, arranged by mellowdramatics."

• 21.11.24 | Décalé: City-fiction in smoke and steam @ Ormside Projects, London
Artists: Flora Yin-Wong, Edmund Hardy, Olukemi Lijadu, Chooc Ly, Arash Nassiri, Saint Abdullah, Ashley Homes & Jamal Sterrett.

• 18.04.2024 | Décalé: Forests, ghosts, incantations @ The Yard Theatre
Artists: April Lin 林森, Ãssia Ghendir accompanied by Kaneng Lolang, dove + petals, Riar Rizaldi, mellowdramatics.

• 01.06.2023 | Décalé x 144 : Fundraising For Saffron @ The Yard Theatre
Artists: Female Allstars + DJ Vectra, FMAX, Mary Feliciano, Sasoraye, Bella Olive, K Means.
Guest curator: Ijeoma Uzoukwu

• 20.01.2023 | DÉCALÉ x HYEY x AAA: Lunar Late @ Matchstick Piehouse
Artists: Princess Xixi + Reptile B, Sam Reynolds, Yarli Allison, Annie Jael Kwan & Have You Eaten Yet? collective
Guest curators: Have You Eatn Yet Collective and Asia-Art-Activism
"Honouring the theme of the rabbit deity, Tu’er Shen 兔兒神, long recognised as the symbolic representation of queerness, the evening will host a variety of live performances, DJ sets and participatory interventions led by ESEA and queer artists.
LUNAR LATE is a community-oriented, cultural intervention, celebrating the joy of ESEA and queer communities."

• 25.11.2022 | DÉCALÉ X CHINABOT @ The Yard Theatre
Artists: Zein, Ans M, Angela Wai-Nok Hui, Jlte Taygeta, Chooc Ly
"Music Collectives Décalé and Chinabot join forces for a night of live experimental performances, club beats for nocturnal creatures and existential insurgents."
Guest curator: Saphy Vong (Chinabot)

• 18.06.2022 | Décalé 6 @ Space289
Artists: IKONIKA, Poulomi Desai, Monica Tolia, Alpha, Chooc Ly

• 04.10.2019 | AGM, DÉCALÉ @ Somerset House Studios
Artists: Ifeoluwa & Jaeho Hwang

• 18.08.2018 | DÉCALÉ @ Poekhali! Landmark Takes Off!, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
– Panel Discussion ‘The powerful don’t make revolutions’: A conversation about self-organisation and doing it for ourselves with Bergen collective Konsept X, London clubnight Décalé and Landmark Curator Eva Rowson.
– Performance by Alpha and Chooc Ly

• 17.5.2019 | Décalé x Jupiter Woods @ Ormside Projects
Artists: Manara, Hannah Catherine Jones, YaYa Bones, Marikiscrycrycry & Tabita Rezaire
Guest curators: Katie Simpson, Carolina Ongaro and Katrina Black from Jupiter Woods

• 13.10.2018 | DÉCALÉ 3 @ DIY Space for London
Artists: Fenchville, Dancing Queerالراقصة المثلية, Loraine James, Koralia & Désiré Niamké

• 8.6.2018 | DÉCALÉ 2 @ DIY Space for London
Artists: Fauzia, Karnagekills, NX Panther & Imran Perretta

• 2.2.2018 DÉCALÉ 1 @ DIY Space for London
w/ Sami Baha, Terribilis, Xana, Zinzi Minott & Sin Wai Kin

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/38668