The second Infinities Commission artist, nora chipaumire, is known for her powerful and thought-provoking explorations of political identity and personal storytelling. For this visionary new work for the Tanks, chipaumire will unite dance, theatre, music, film, and sculpture to create an immersive experience.
By all means necessary, the artist’s work draws on influences ranging from punk to Shona spirituality, bringing to bear everything she has experienced in her life so far. Through rigorous attention to movement and space, chipaumire’s practice asks: What is the meaning of balance? How do we find equilibrium? Are these even the right questions for our time?
For her upcoming commission with Tate Modern, chipaumire will invite audiences to join her in grappling with these essential questions in a space where work is humanizing and ennobling.
Performances will take place in the space 25-27 June.
nora chipaumire
nora chipaumire is a dancer and choreographer from Mutare, Zimbabwe, who lives between Berlin, New York and Harare. She studied dance in Africa, Cuba and Jamaica before settling in New York, where she composes and performs "live art": an art made up of the living and which itself takes on a living form, seeking in the body in movement a development of expression that languages seem to limit. Since her first piece, Chimurenga in 2003, nora chipaumire has been keen to combine aesthetics with politics, evoking colonial issues including the history of black bodies.
The Infinities Commission showcases the limitless potential for contemporary art. It provides a platform for artists who disrupt the boundaries between creative disciplines, inviting them to create an experimental new work for the Tanks, Tate Modern’s unique spaces dedicated to performance, installation and film. Each year an expert panel selects one international artist to receive the commission and three artists to receive research and development funding. In 2026, the three selected R&D artists were:
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou Rahme
Working across a range of sound, image, text, installation and performance practices, this duo of artists engages in the intersections between performativity, political imaginaries, the body and virtuality. Their approach has been one of sampling both existing and self-authored materials, recasting them into new ‘scripts’. Their practice investigates the political, visceral, material possibilities of sound, image, text and site, taking on the form of multi-media installations and live performances.
Sahej Rahal
Sahej Rahal builds original worlds through training multiple overlapping AI models to make works that argue for collective intelligence - and help an audience feel and train in what that might mean. He creates a world that demonstrates what alternative epistemologies for future technology might feel and look like.
CATPC, Cercle d'Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise
Based in Lusanga, formerly Leverville, CATPC is both an art collective and a group of plantation workers. They work from what was once the capital of a palm oil empire owned by the Lever Brothers, today Unilever. After 100 years of extraction, CATPC re-appropriated an exhausted land, sold off by Unilever and, with the income from their art, developed the Post Plantation project: a community-owned, inclusive, multi-species food garden and a reforestation initiative, focused on regenerative relationships between art, economy and ecology.
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