The Motion of Light
Samuel R. Delany
Autobiographical detail becomes a lens to reflect and refract the deepest aspects of personal and social life in Delany’s ground-breaking non-fiction writing.
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Autobiographical detail becomes a lens to reflect and refract the deepest aspects of personal and social life in Delany’s ground-breaking non-fiction writing.
Glasgow based contemporary music group Paragon Ensemble performing an improvisation with Pete Dowling, Nick Fells, Robert Irvine and others.
The reknowned artist Kjell Bjørgeengen works collaboratively with innovative musicians to make complex installations. Channels of flickering light are produced in response to and from sound.
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
Solo organ performance by German composer Eva-Maria Houben, which focuses on ‘nearly nothing’ to expand the way we listen.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
A public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.
A programme that looks at how sound and image can be treated as variants in a collection of ordered objects; at how to create meaning from the similar, and to notice difference.
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.