Apocalyptic Yesterday
What if future never comes
Free entry
Exhibition Times | 21-30 March 2025, Friday to Sunday, noon - 4:30pm
Address | 5/F, 125 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8AD
Free Events:
Opening Party: A Gathering at the Remains | Wednesday 19 March 6pm - 9pm
Performance Day: Rest is History | Saturday 22 March noon - 4:30pm
Zine Launch & Spoken Text Party: Radical Friends at the Apocalypse | Sunday 30 March 2pm - 4pm
‘The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.’
― Terence McKenna
We are living in the apocalypse, we're exposed to life in hell as the results of our privileged, easy life; the burden of knowing we live with when many lives are suffering to make ours comfortable.
The world has seen the multiple world-ending dangers for decades, and we’re forced to live on, not knowing when the last tomorrow will come. The artists gathered by Hidden Keileon will go through a month of creative period in response to the theme of Apocalyptic Yesterday: geopolitical conflicts, global resources flow, mycelial inspired organising and working in a world where future is hard to imagine.
The exhibition uncovers the layers of this apocalyptic reality, exploring themes of decay, disillusionment and the human condition in the face of impending doom. A world perpetually teetering on the brink of collapse. It's as if the apocalypse has already arrived, masked by the illusion of progress and prosperity.
We re-centre ourselves through collective creating and sharing, local organising, reconnecting with our immediate surrounding and finding solidarity in the despair of worldly burden. May we all find solace through the gatherings, regain agency of change and engage in culture making.
Opening Party: A Gathering at the Remains
19 Mar 2025 (Wed) 6-9pm
What do we as artists do when offered the office space abandoned by the tech giant Facebook in the face of apocalypse? Apocalypse has long dawned on many. Witnessing the ongoing suffering of the global majority as the aftermath of colonisation and resource exploitation, we reconnect with our immediate surrounding and find solidarity in the despair of worldly burden.
Come join us for a gathering at the remains, as we open the exhibition “Apocalyptic Yesterday” with discussions, film screenings, installation activations and music.
Performance Day: Rest is History
22 Mar 2025 (Sat) 12noon - 4:30pm
“Being not doing - we are human beings, not human doings.” - Besides being an internet meme, there is perhaps wisdom we can draw. At the previous site of the tech giant Facebook’s office, we attempt to inhabit these cold steels covered with concrete with another attire, another attitude.
We lay on beds, snatch papers on the floor, cry on an office chair, draw cool rats on the white boards, and throw ourselves into a time-space beyond capitalist realities.
Zine Launch and Spoken Text Party: Radical Friends at the Apocalypse
30 Mar 2025 (Sun) 2-4pm
At the end, what matters? A moment of nihilism transformed into a meaningful thought exercises amongst a collective of artists and writers, pulling words, ink and colour together. We gathered—word by word, print by print, voice by voice—to close Apocalyptic Yesterday, we are launching Radical Friends, our zine stitched from collective urgencies, alongside it, we gather a spoken text party in this former office owned by Facebook, a place built to mediate pseudo online connection, now emptied of its function. Here we speak, words as echoes, interruptions, refusals, to confront, mourn, unravel, and dream.
