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1st and 2nd November 2025
Our opening weekend is taking place, to use The Wrong's phrase, in an embassy – an in-person pop-up exhibition at HAPAX Living Room – with talks, funding surgeries, art and of course, doughnuts! The Living Room is exactly that – an intimate space – so be sure to book via the links provided below.
17 Empress Place, London, SW6 1TT
Please email us at thedoughnutwhole@gmail.com with inquiries or if you have any trouble connecting to the Eventbrite booking links below.
Saturday 1st November 2025
10:00–12:00 | Free Viewing
Living Room & Back Room
Drop in to explore the exhibition and projections
12:00–13:30 | Worm(W)Holes
Living Room
Talk with Dr Jane Boyer
Finitude marks the point where we end and others begin. Does AI deprive us of the sense of finitude? Is it frightening in part because we no longer see the end to ourselves, but a terrifying mash of an undifferentiated state of sameness? Dr Jane Boyer's talk will be a meditation on Kaja Silverman's writing on finitude, as Boyer believes this may be the crux of the question in The Doughnut (W)Hole and in the wider existential crisis of photography.
Following Jane's talk, Gisela Torres will chair a round table with Dr Jane Boyer and pavilion artists; (TBC) Sarah-Jane Field and Maria Ahmed.
Booking required
12:00–14:30 | Funding Surgery
Office
Funding and Project Development Surgeries with Dr Justin Hunt
Dr Justin Hunt is a curator, researcher, and coach based in London. Justin supports individuals and businesses to think creatively about their development. In these 25-minute surgeries, practitioners can explore challenges and opportunities arising in their practice, from getting started to rebuilding, funding strategy, and marketing strategy. Justin can support your thinking to make actionable decisions that move your project/practice forward.
Booking required
15:00–16:00 | Performing (W)Holes
Living Room
Talk with Evangelia Danadaki
This talk explores the link between philosophy, technology and artistic practice by approaching the (w)hole as a performative space where absence generates relations and surprising visibilities. Rather than a void to be filled, the hole is understood as a luminous and caring opening to be felt, a screen where images come into presence through unexpected projections. Through her video-film ghosting myself, Evangelia Danadaki reflects on how visual forms of writing can act as gestures of meaning-making and care, allowing the image to recompose itself and expose its own fragility and criticality: how might art perform the (w)hole not as lack, but as a shared space that holds and carries?
Evangelia Danadaki is an artist and PhD candidate in feminist philosophy and psychoanalysis at the University of Leeds (School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies).
Booking required
Sunday 2nd November 2025
10:00–12:00 | Free Viewing
Living Room & Back Room
Drop in to explore the exhibition and projections
12:00–14:00 | Memory(W)Holes
Living Room
Talk with Dr Caroline Molloy
In this session, Memory Hole: The fallibility of Memory - Dr Caroline Molloy will introduce a tenet that emerged out of her PhD research that questions what happens to memory in the Age of Digital Photography; when the physical photograph can allegorically be created and recreated. How does this impact personal and collective memories? She will then lead a conversation with selected artists who have developed work to either open or close memory holes through digital and AI photographies.
Artists (TBC): Sarah Deane, Alan Knox, Heidi Reece
Booking required
14:30–16:00 | Pot(W)Holes
Living Room
Talk with Dr Madeline Yale Preston
Long before AI became a household name, artists were foraging on the frontiers of synthetic creativity – montage, appropriation and digital manipulation. In this session, Dr Madeline Yale Preston will explore the question of what shifts and how in the age of AI - is it the practice itself or our relationship to it?
Artists: (TBC) Ben Millar Cole, Duncan Petrie
Booking required