Lighting, staging, costume, the masks. For a lot of artists the live set is where the visual identity is most complete and least documented.

The Tokyo four-piece send journalists a written document called the Unified Vision. The blacked-out shades, the Matrix-green flyers and the strobe-blind live set all descend from it, which is the correct order to do this in and almost nobody does.

No-Neck Blues Band will stage a one-hour collective improvisation at Brooklyn’s First Unitarian Congregational Society in 2026 — their first full-group performance since 2013.

Proença's Human Trials turns an archival shop into a lab: 16mm grain, thrifted clothes and precise movement make fashion feel like a measured experiment.