Live Weekends: Shunt

Starting this year, and for every 10 years for the rest of their lives, Search Party will create a performance exploring ideas of age, duality and accumulation.

Alma Nofear draws on the delicate contradictions of her cultural migrations—from Lapland to London—to create music of sparse, shambolic power.

While it is still night, the audience should stay in their seats. The doors are locked, for safety. There is only a short time in which to take the audience through everything needed to know for re-entry into the world outside.

Peter Michaels' shows blends live loops with traditional fingerstyle guitar.

From the intimate, low-lit vantage of the cinema seat, the participant is guided into a rich and sonically transporting world of cinematic perspective.

Come shoot Mamoru Iriguchi with passionate love bullets in a video shooting game.

Combining pop and country influences, Kelly Page sings and performs her guitar live.

Come and join Mamoru Iriguchi's intimate little adventure in the imaginary pitch-black as his temporary lover.

Create a war scene of epic Hollywood proportions on a sandy tabletop battlefield using a tiny spy camera, head torches, obscure plastic props and soldiers, Jean Baudrillard, a one man army and some big televisions.

Watch Orlando Seale and The Swell swing from from melancholy to Highbury, from intimate to Epping Forest, with the Eusebius Ensemble playing beautiful woodwinds, lush strings, and bold brass.

Three characters inhabit the stage in front of us and we are both ourselves, something and nothing to them. But for all of us there is a raging battle offstage that is getting louder.

Kazuko Hohki and Andy Cox demonstrate Borrowers' music by playing some exquisite reconstructions of Borrowers-size instruments.

A performance from this pop cabaret performance group, founded in 1982, who had an independent chart hit with We are Ninja, released five albums, and toured worldwide.

Adam Ashton performs works from his repertoire of original , reversioned and covered 'casio classics'.

Kay will be performing a concert of her original compositions from from her debut album Disposition.

Jo Quail enchants us with a live performance on her Starfish electric cello.

Tom Hickox is a songwriter of outstanding originality: a chronicler of our times.

Nathan Jones's performance is part lecture, part love story, reflecting on the place of poetry in art and fatherhood.

Live music from singer/songwriter Will Kluz. Originally from North Yorkshire, now based in London, his guitar style ranges from blues and rock to melancholic folk and more.

Are you feeling sleepy? Come and have a lie down. A five minute performance with Shunt Artists Nigel Barrett and Louise Mari.

Orchestra Elastique is a London-based music improvisation collective, formed during a residency at the Shunt Vaults in April 2010.

An actor. An audience. Why are we here?

A film-essay exploring the problem of time in contemporary culture, with Sylvère Lotringer, Brothers Quay, Chantal Akerman, Alexander Sokurov, Vito Acconci, Paul Morley, Peter Eisenman, Doug Aitken, Stan Douglas and David Claerbout.

Live performance from Russell Swallow whose eclectic sound invokes folk, rock, jazz and pop distilled through open hearted lyrics, powerful arrangements and an emotionally charged delivery.

External hurls a conversation about originality right out into the open, doing its own head in.

Gwendolen Chatfield plays the accordion and guitar live, singing a mixture of traditional and folk songs.

A light-hearted disquisition on memory, loss and artificial intelligence takes a turn into altogether stranger territory.

Select a design that sums up your love of all things live and then commit to ink on skin with your new (semi)permanent Live Art Tattoo.

A live performance of psychedelic electronica from Taishi Nagasaka.

Ark Animalium is a darkly humorous, live-art performance that re-creates an elegiac world filled with mysterious creatures, a biblically-shaped crate and just a few too many Bill Withers tracks - used as alternatives to origin of the species.

Willie Singerman is a singer-songwriter and poet from Glasgow, currently based in London and playing with the Heart Felt Hats.

An intermittently thrilling biblical adventure in which you are the hero.

Book an eye test at the opticians observatory, create your own telescopic eyewear, chart a constellation then star gaze until your new lenses fall out clearer, or more blurred.

Mandado is a site-specific and physical theatre intervention exploring notions of evil and its absurdity through the guises of businessmen, political candidates and occult leaders.

Grotesquely merging puppetry and the human body, Un-Cuckoo creates pathways into the labyrinth of the sub-conscious.

A vibrant and original adaptation of the Thomas Meehan musical Annie minus the songs and the dancing.

Imprisoned on an exercise bicycle, a lone woman tells the story of an extraordinary man.

Two sewing machines take on the role of street racers and city landscape in this fast-paced two player game.

Happening partly in the dark, Bruno Humberto’s new solo explores nothingness in Western philosophy, Eastern mysticism, physics and poetry, all condensed in the absence that lies in between.

A mysterious and haunting live performance conceived and performed by Madaleine Trigg.

An old piano and other instruments come to life with a cacophony of rust and stone, oak and glass, hair and bone towers incandescent. Expect sonic shivers, pelvic quivers and suffocating skittish shadows.

Projected films on loop all day from 12pm.

New graffiti and street art photography from six of London's best photographers documenting the ephemeral graffiti and street art that constantly ebbs and flows across London's streets, rooftops and tracksides.

A video installation by Shunt associate artist Susanne Dietz with sound by Neil Saffer

Have no fear, place you head in this interactive installation and hear the inner voice as it talks incessantly to itself.

A set of oil paintings riffles through the viewers psyche, searching for deep seated imbalance upon which to teeter.

A rare opportunity to see the video of a performance Hedwig & Stoller by Hannah Ringham and David Rosenberg, performed as part of the Nerve festival, filmed on Hi-8 video in 1999.

The People Pile present a series of popping-ups and drink sharing in the ICA Bar. Keep your eyes peeled for performers amidst the crowds.

Listen to the headphones, hear the shadows speak and learn about their story. There are two screens, each hiding a reader who speaks to us. There is a man, a woman, and a story with more than one perspective.

A prehistoric infant lies helplessly in a hospital incubator as 21st century technology monitors his vital signs.

Chorus / in vain I will away is a project by Birgit Deubner that works with the body in unconventional ways.

A haunting performance and installation of stuffed pheasants and eerie sounds.