25 May 2013
Tramway
#untitled lipsync 2
boychild
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
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19 April 2015
Tramway
No Ready Made Men – Performance
Ueinzz
A performance of Ueinzz’s new play. Each Ueinzz performance is a process of reinvention, between exhaustion and a fleeting vision: singular, collective, anonymous, plural, suspensive, intensive, unworking life.
Episode 7:
We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
24 May 2013
Stereo
Hidden in Plain Sight: Club
boychild DJ Sprinkles Vjuan Allure Pony Zion
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
Episode 5:
Hidden in Plain Sight
19 November 2017
Tramway
Sgàire Wood
Sgàire Wood
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
Episode 9:
Other Worlds Already Exist
2 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art
Temporary outpost for an auditory figure
Brandon LaBelle
A temporary archive and research space tracing the ways in which sound and audition move through everyday life.
A survey is a process of listening
12 October 2008
DCA
Film Programme: Feedback
John Butcher Luis Recoder Paul Sharits Various Artists Toshiya Tsunoda
The pieces in the programme switch between silent film/ imageless sound, but we wanted to have a think about how ideas can take up residency on either side of the sound/ image border, without having to inhabit both at the same time.
Kill Your Timid Notion 08
17 April 2015
Tramway
It’s Sorta Like a Big Hug
Constantina Zavitsanos Park McArthur
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Episode 7:
We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
5 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art
What is the Sound of Freedom?
Fred Moten Ultra-red
For day four of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by Fred Moten.
A survey is a process of listening
22 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead
Nmperign
Nmperign
Boston duo of saxophonist Bhob Rainey and trumpeter Greg Kelley approach their improvisations with a slew if extended techniques and pregnant silences.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
28 September 2014
Tramway
Mutual Instruments
Fred Moten Miss Prissy
Can our favourite Vegas-born poet of prophetic blackness and a South Central transmuter of social rage into beauty feel through each other?
Episode 6:
Make a Way Out of No Way
14 October 2006
The Arches
Creative Music Workshop
David Dove
Dave will lead a session created for teenagers and designed to stimulate a supportive environment for artistic exploration through music improvisation.
INSTAL 06
19 – 22 April 2017
Strathclyde Uni
Kinning Park Complex
CCA
Terrence Higgins Trust
Sex Workers’ Festival of Resistance
A Festival supporting the struggle for Sex Workers’ Rights: share knowledge, discuss, dance and strategise!