UNINSTAL
Braver Newer Musics
UNINSTAL was a set of events at Tramway that tested out radical ideas with leading local and international artists. A collection of events (performances, films, installations, walks and talks) about sound and listening.
This is how we described UNINSTAL at the time:
Arika’s Part A / taster / precursor to the 2010 INSTAL festival at Tramway that will take place in November: Uninstal will feature events with leading questions that test ideas and take risks. Attempts at answers will come from Taku Unami, Eric La Casa, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Ultra-red, Strickland Distribution, Christian Bok, Craig Dworkin, JLIAT, Loic Blairon as well as the attendant audience.
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WE DO INSTAL. INSTAL’S been going for 10 years. It’s one of Europe’s leading festivals of risk taking and experimentation in sound, as it meets performance and art: unexpected, unbelievable gigs, events & experiences. INSTAL is changing. It’s moving to The Tramway this November. IN THE MEAN TIME, WE’RE DOING UNINSTAL. It’s a kind of taster. A preview. Like INSTAL, but maybe riskier. A set of FREE events that test out radical ideas with leading local and international artists: experimental musicians/ writers/ philosophers/ organisers/ poets. Seven events (intense performances and gigs, revelatory films, performed installations, and the like): each a kind of non-closed circle; open-ended, unresolved and incomplete. A collection that doesn’t add up, but always returns to sound, music and listening. Come. And help us figure out where we might go next….
BAFFLING EXPERIMENTAL METAL
UNLISTENABLE SILENCE
LANGUAGE GAMES
SOUND POETRY
ANTI-UNDERSTANDABILITY
URBAN ORGANISING
BARE KNUCKLE IMPROVISATION
UNCREATIVITY
EVERYDAY SOUND
ANTI-GENTRIFICATION
RADICAL FIELD RECORDING
CONCEPTUAL WRITING
ORGANISED LISTENING
EXPERIMENTAL
Uninstal was reviewed by Stewart Smith for the List here.
Programme Events
In The Shadow of Shadow – Walk
The Strickland Distribution Ultra-red
A public walk from George Square to the Barras market bringing contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis
House
Eric La Casa Jean-Luc Guionnet
One-shot sonic portraits of 4 houses, their inhabitants and their relationship to sound, from 2 of the most deep-thinking field-recording artists around.
Used Sound
Jean-Luc Guionnet Ray Brassier Seijiro Murayama
A full-blooded, emotional attempt to reinvigorate improvisation from a musically inclined philosopher and two philosophically inclined improvisers.
It Doesn’t Say What It Says
Loïc Blairon
Open-ended, paradoxical and performed investigations into: misunderstanding, language games, form saturated with sense, and consecutive matters…
Inferno Quiz Show
Taku Unami
Cardboard boxes, metal guitar, critical homage, attempts to describe things you can’t describe. A one-man Grand Guignol school play.
Bleu Shut
Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.
In The Shadow of Shadow – Listening Session
The Strickland Distribution Ultra-red
Strickland Distribution and Ultra-red give a practical sound workshop bringing together walk participants to discuss the issues raised during the walk
JILAT
JLIAT / James Whitehead
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
Two Dots over a Vowel
Christian Bök
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
FACT
Craig Dworkin
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?