Episode 8: Refuse Powers’ Grasp
Over 3 days Episode 8 celebrates all the unruly ways we escape attempts to constrain us, tear down the walls of normative culture and build joy in flight.
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Over 3 days Episode 8 celebrates all the unruly ways we escape attempts to constrain us, tear down the walls of normative culture and build joy in flight.
A solo improvisation using just the situation of the concert: a space, a PA, Mattin’s own thoughts, you, the audience.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
A performance for projectionist, musicians and audience, which plays with references to Oscar Levant and Gershwin: apparently a series of small doses of chaos.
Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.
Free Jazz group comprising Matt Lavelle, Matt Heyner (TEST, No-Neck Blues Band) and Ryan Sawyer (Tall Firs).
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
A 101 panel on sex work in Scotland, hosted by Scotland for Decrim and National Ugly Mugs
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
A Festival supporting the struggle for Sex Workers’ Rights: share knowledge, discuss, dance and strategise!
Each film in this programme celebrates process; the decay of emulsion, the properties of dust and dirt, the manipulation of time. Post the dawn of the digital age, we reflect on our love of the film form, celluloid as an object, a medium and a physical entity.