Robert Cervera, Hiddenware

Launch event and live performance: Tue 14 Oct 2025, 5 - 8pm

Additional live performances: Sat 31 Jan and Sat 21 Mar 2026, 4 - 7pm

Exhibition

We spend so much of our lives online via our smartphones, computers, televisions, and gaming consoles, but do we ever consider the vast physical infrastructures that underpin our digital experiences? The miles of undersea cables, the massive data centres, the mountains of cooling circuits, concrete and metal. In Hiddenware, artist Robert Cervera seeks to make visible this hidden materiality, inviting us to reconsider our relationship to the virtual world. Robert worked with local video gamers and musicians to co-create audiovisual performances, culminating in an exhibition that bridges sculpture, video, music and live streaming in the gallery.

Live performances

Imagine taking a gaming session out of a dim-lit bedroom and into the middle of an art exhibition - with an added live soundtrack produced by an instrument made out of PC liquid cooling tubes. For Hiddenware, artist Robert has been working with local gamers and musicians to create audiovisual performances in which the music reacts to what's happening on the screen. Join us for the whole session or drop in at any point. Or follow it live on Twitch and YouTube - look for 'HIDDENWARElive'. With musicians Anna Carter, Barnaby Slade, Cat Eden, Hanna Mbuya, Nick Hann, and Robert Cervera.

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