about
Sara Sassanelli is co-founder of Alice Agency and Associate of CONDITIONS studio programme. Until 2024, they were Curator of Live at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) where they programmed across dance and electronic music, with a focus on emerging artists. Their work is iterative and practice-based, aiming to experiment with the varied relationships between performer, audience and space. Often drawing on methods from DIY contexts their work investigates how meaning is made through interactions, unpredictability and risk. They work with artists who experimentant across-genres and engage with formal technique, social dance, pop culture, and punk sensibilities.
Through Alice Agency they have worked with: Lily McMenamy, Florence Sinclair, Olan Monk, Billy Bultheel, Arthur Jafa, Mark Leckey, Tzekin, Paulius Janusonis, Yen Chun Lin & Gediminas Zygus and Nitetrax.
They have produced and presented work at Bold Tendencies, ICA, Tate Britain & Tate Modern, the Royal Academy of Arts, Rewire, Atonal, Ormside Projects, Botanique, Volksbuehne and Goldsmiths University.
Previous programming and producing includes: Girl Pain by Lily McMenamy (2026), Stream by Jack Hogan (2026), A Short History of Decay by Billy Bultheel (2025-2026), The Joystick and The Reins by Eve Stainton (2025), NX FUIMO by Tamara Alegre (2024), GONER by Malik Nashad Sharpe (2024), Afterlife by Louis Schou Hansen (2024) IMPACT DRIVER by Eve Stainton (2023), minus one series (2022 - 2023), Dykegeist by Eve Stainton (2021), The Last Breath Society by Martin O’Brien (2021), Rave Trilogy by Rebecca Salvadori (2020) The Tender Interval: Studies in Sound and Motion (2020), all-night takeover of ICA by collective INFERNO (2020 & 2023).
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