Durational performance installation for 6 performers and guests artists
3 hours
Premiere – Saturday 12 December 2026, 3-6pm at V&A East Storehouse, Weston Collections Hall, London
Concept Dam Van Huynh
Choreography Dam Van Huynh in collaboration with the performers
Costume Design Emma Lyth
Production Manager Michael Picknett
Performers Paul Davies, Tai-Hsin Chang, Juan Madero, Ieva Navickaite, Marely Romero, Brian Yam
Guest artists Lucia H Chung – sound artist, Elaine Mitchener – vocalist, Michael Picknett – sound artist
Photography and Video Tom Selmon
Music in Trailer: CHANG Hei Sheng, Nigel BROWN WU, Tai-Yen HSIAO, yangling CHEN, Li Kai
Audiences are welcome to enter and leave the installation freely and may stay for as long as they wish. Please note that if the space reaches full capacity, visitors may be asked to wait until space becomes available. This event is free of charge and no booking is required.
Location:
V&A East Storehouse
Parkes Street, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
Hackney Wick
London
E20 3AX
www.vam.ac.uk
“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” Ryunosuke Satoro
Poster For Peace is a durational performance installation that transcends the boundaries of disciplines, weaving together contemporary dance and visual arts into an overlay of thoughts. Inspired by artist Robert Rauschenberg’s belief in the power of art as a catalyst for positive social change, the installation aims to reflect on the themes of peace, sense of belonging and coming together.
Over a duration of three hours, the experience invites contemplation on the word “peace”, devoid of directive, objective, or agenda. It beckons viewers to engage at their own pace in an act of meditation on what this term evokes personally and collectively. Guest artists are invited to engage with the installation on the day, offering their own interpretations of and responses to the overarching theme through their individual artistic practices.
Situated within V&A East Storehouse, the installation enters into dialogue with a home, and all the implication that the word home conjures: a haven of emotions, memories, a road map for futurism, a conversation with collection as an active archive, where objects are not preserved as static evidence of the past but continually activated through encounter, participation and reinterpretation. In this context, the Storehouse becomes a site for rehearsing possible futures as much as preserving historical memory.
Presented in collaboration with V&A East Storehouse
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England
Further developed during the Rauschenberg Residency 2025 through the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
With further support from Wan Sha Performing Arts Center, Certain Blacks, Centre 151