Autumn Salon

Co-curated with Waste Paper Opera, this edition brings together contemporary approaches to classical music, with performances by Lolly Adams, Ramilda, and Waste Paper Opera Chorus and Meili Li. Show Pony by Lolly Adams Show Pony is a durational performance in which Lolly Adams, highly decorated with prize rosettes, runs continuously on a treadmill while violinist Caroline Topley performs the William Tell Overture. Having seemingly already won every prize, Show Pony remains compelled to run, turning spectacle and celebration into a study of ambition, humiliation and the perpetual performance of success. Ramilda (live) Experimental cellist and vocalist Ramilda plays an intimate live set of new compositions alongside tracks from her recent release Cracked. Primary Sources by Waste Paper Opera Chorus and Meili Li Weaving together existing songs, etudes, and experiments from the Waste Paper Opera Chorus with new material, Primary Sources asks how histories are told, transmitted, and transformed collectively, again and again. The work is a collaboration with countertenor Meili Li, and an experiment in collectively constructing histories across speech, song, and visuals. About Lolly Adams is an artist who works across performance, sculpture, animation, and 2D practices including monotype and painting. Her work processes psychological theories through the body, using autobiography, humour, and body horror as a means of transformation. Drawing on psychoanalysis, anatomy, drag, pop culture, and family narratives, Adams constructs unstable worlds where art history and inherited forms slip into misuse. Ancient gods become ceramic pets glazed in pearlescent lustre, lard replaces marble, and a teddy bear costume is vacuum-packed as if a specimen. Working with class-coded materials, she reshapes disgust, shame, and humiliation as cultural conditions, building an absurd universe governed by its own logic. Ramilda (Kirke Gross) is an Estonian avant-garde cellist, improviser, and artist-producer based in London. Her solo project explores songwriting and composition for cello and vocals, spanning ambient, drone, and experimental genres. She released her debut EP Cracked in April 2026. Waste Paper Opera is a live art and music collective. The Waste Paper Opera Chorus has been meeting for the past three years in London, and is a space for experimentation for artists, musicians, writers, and performers. For this performance, they are collaborating with internationally acclaimed countertenor and long-term Waste Paper Opera collaborator Meili Li. No one will be turned away for lack of funds, to discuss this with the team email [email protected].