Artist niv Acosta is in conversation with Louise O’Kelly, Founding Director, Block Universe. This is ahead of the UK premiere of niv Acosta’s DISCOTROPIC | Alien Talk Show at David Roberts Art Foundation (Sat 4 June) as part of Block Universe. In this performance niv Acosta seizes on an elementary medium of intimate exposure—television  and the confessional culture of the talk show—to explore the relationships between science fiction, disco, astrophysics and the black American experience.

Image credit: Arron Leppard