# Actress + London Contemporary Orchestra **Venue:** Barbican **Location:** London, UK **Date:** 2018-11-01 **Source:** https://www.nichamilton.info/actressatbarbican --- A triptych of pixelated spaces and evolving brutalist textures A unique collaboration commissioned and curated by Boiler Room and the London Contemporary Orchestra pairs producer Darren Cunningham, aka Actress, with the LCO. This world-first performance of the live show will be debuting Actresses new material as well as expanded arrangements of his dark and brooding electronica. A triptych of 45 minute films were projected across the Barbican on three screens forming the backdrop to the performance. I took inspiration from the Lageos satellite as we moved through sheets of textured and degraded urban forms and abstractions of space travel.