21 – 23 August 2026
Hard Labour
All welcome to a weekend of sex worker resistance and joy! Workshops, talks and visual art, hosted by Scotland for Decrim.
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15 February 2008
The Arches
Self Cancellation – Asymptotic Freedom / Feedback Wire Drawing
Benedict Drew John Butcher
John Butcher plays and manipulates a feeding back saxophone. Benedict Drew on electronics, broken cables and standing waves.
INSTAL 08
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
13 October 2006
The Arches
Infest – Nimrod 33 & Shareholder
Nimrod 33 Shareholder
West Coast drone-age guitar grumbler/ consumer electronic reclaimer meets free-thinking clang/ chime/ drone bluesman of The East.
INSTAL 06
6 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art
TEST featuring Fred Moten
Daniel Carter Matt Heyner Sabir Mateen Tom Bruno Fred Moten
TEST is a collective creative improvising quartet based out of the NYC Underground (figuratively and literally). Their street-hardened, spatial Jazz is riotous and intense: is also makes us think about collective organization, and different ideas of responsibility and liberty.
A survey is a process of listening
16 October 2004
The Arches
Charlemagne Palestine
Charlemagne Palestine
An extravagant debauch of plush toys and ritual. Palestine performed a version of Strumming Music, a trance inducing investigation into overtone systems achievable on a Bosendorfer Imperial Piano.
INSTAL 04
15 October 2006
The Arches
Kuwayama & Kijima
Kiyoharu Kuwayama Rina Kijima
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
INSTAL 06
22 March 2009
The Arches
Seymour Wright
Seymour Wright
A saxophone. Handheld fans. Shrill squeaks. Splutters, gargling. An incredible diversity of sounds, intensely focused by an inventive musician.
INSTAL 09
15 February 2008
The Arches
Self Cancellation – Palimpsest #1
Benedict Drew Chris Weaver John Butcher Mark Bain Michael Colligan Rhodri Davies Robin Hayward Sarah Washington John Bain Lee Patterson
Performance of a Sudoko based graphic score giving rise to a process of self cancellation.
INSTAL 08
26 March 2022
CCA Annex (Online)
Part One | Parte I
CARNI – Coletivo de Arte Negra e Indígena Periferia Segue Sangrando Denise Ferreira da Silva Ana Lira
A Breath to Follow | Um sopro a se seguir
29 November 2008
BFI Southbank
BFI IMAX
ICA
Spike Island
Arnolfini
CCA
Bruce McClure
Bruce McClure
Noise music for the eyes: projectors turned into instruments, B&W film loops into a thrumming riot of colour, motion and sound.
Kill Your Timid Notion on Tour
24 November 2019
Tramway
Multilogics and Poetics of Radical Transfeminism
Mijke van der Drift Nat Raha
Underlying radical transfeminism, as an urgent critique of binary essentialism and fixed identities, is the call for a new kind of thinking that can move between and integrate the truths of all lives in their transformations.
Episode 10:
A Means Without End