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Glasgow based artist Defaalt invites the audience to collaborate fully in his performance by means of a generative graphical interface.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
5 days of film, music, discussion and study of our collective incompleteness—arrayed against the colonial ordering of how we come to know the world—practicing how we might exist otherwise, right here and now. Can we start to know and practice the world to come?
A speculative narrative film informed by poetry and theories of quantum entanglement across diasporic distance. An intimate exploration of grief and resistance in shifting landscapes of loss, from the streets to the bed.
This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.
Ian and Gil will host a discussion on the Argument project’s social and political commentaries, and with you try and maybe think through whether and how they might still have some currency today: what’s changed and what’s stayed the same?
Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
Coffee, Croissants & Massage – a welcoming breakfast for all with massage by qualified massage therapists present to give hand & head massages.
A socio-poetic reading on wayward communities – The wayward create upheavals, incite tumult. They come and go as they please; they are fugitive; they are in open rebellion against society.
Sex worker only Collective Art Workshop led by the Hard Labour project from Scotland for Decrim.
