Platform 2026 Performances: Seren Wagstaff, Dean Ansell

28 FEBRUARY 2026

Institute of Modern Art

Join artists Seren Wagstaff and Dean Ansell for performance activations of their exhibitions.

Acting as a conductor in an experimental orchestra, Seren Wagstaff leads musicians Cassandra Louttit, and David Michael Thomas alongside an ensemble of pulsing fishing rods.

Dean Ansell explores shared Oceanic genealogies alongside sound artist Nadeem Tiafau Eshraghi. Together they will navigate Great Ocean histories in a performance that draws in objects and practices of Papua Niugini and Sāmoa.

Viewers may get wet.

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