15 October 2005
The Arches
Directing Hand
Directing Hand
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
INSTAL 05
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14 October 2006
The Arches
The Bohman Brothers
The Bohman Brothers
Quintessentially British, The Bohman Brothers’ music is a home-made and DIY conflux of some of the most virulent strains of experimental music.
INSTAL 06
28 May 2015
Artists Space Books & Talks
No Total
Amalle Dublon Arias Abbruzzi Davis Constantina Zavitsanos Emma Hedditch Jordan Lord Morgan Bassichis
Three days of discussions, performances, actions, dancing and food – continuing No Total’s ongoing contemplation of ways of being together and the ways Arika have been entangled in those, ever since Episode 4.
12 December 2004
DCA
La Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine
Metamkine
Adamantly analogue, inspiring and frequently chaotic in performance, Metamkine draw no distinction between image and sound; during their intuitively improvised performances music and images are created simultaneously and equitably.
Kill Your Timid Notion 04
27 February 2010
DCA
Film Programme 2: Repetitive Actions
Emma Hart Guy Sherwin Morgan Fisher Various Artists
Setting up a minimal procedure to explore the interaction between a person and the (documentary) film/ video process. What initially seems simple ends up contrarily distanced and intimate, public and private.
Kill Your Timid Notion 10
12 November 2010
Tramway
Eject & No Disc
Matthieu Saladin
French improviser, composer, writer & musical thinker of dry humour and elegant clarity. Sly conjurer of music from the unconsidered processes of music making.
INSTAL 10
21 November 2019
Tramway
In the Sign of Jonah: Around Moby-Dick
Laura Harris Fernando Zalamea
“The miracle of Herman Melville is this: that a hundred years ago in Moby Dick…he painted a picture of the world in which we live, which is to this day unsurpassed.” – C. L. R. James
Episode 10:
A Means Without End
20 March 2009
Extra Friday Set
Klaus Filip Radu Malfatti Sean Meehan Taku Unami
Quartet improvisation by Klaus Filip – laptop, Radu Malfatti – trombone, Sean Meehan – snare & cymbals, Taku Unami – rice and dish.
INSTAL 09
22 November 2019
Tramway
Poetry, Mathematics, Debris
Fred Moten Nathaniel Mackey Fernando Zalamea
How do poetry and maths stitch together pictures of our fractured situation from its wreckage and relics, from the debris of hope and the well of residues that make us what we are?
Episode 10:
A Means Without End
5 – 15 July 2007
Union Terrace Gardens
Bell Street Car Park
The old public library in Easterhouse
A concrete walkway ending in mid air
The Megastructure
The former Abbeyhill Station
Shadowed Spaces
There exist places in our towns and cities that are created not by design, but by circumstance. Shadowed Spaces was a tour of overlooked, bypassed and unconsidered nooks and crannies with 3 musicians.
15 July 2007
The former Abbeyhill Station
Shadowed Spaces Edinburgh
Ikuro Takahashi Sean Meehan Tamio Shiraishi Denis Wood
The site of the former Abbeyhill Station on the 1903 Leith branch of the Edinburgh and Dalkeith railway, overgrown and leading to as yet un-regenerated ‘wasteland’; taxi’s for 80 people, each instructed to take different routes between locations and; a slice of land concealed behind corporate business park branding off the Wester Approach Rd, apparently of no conceivable use and named ‘Chateaux de Scum’ by those who use it anyway.
Shadowed Spaces
22 November 2019
Tramway
Exhibition: Gravitational Feel
Fred Moten Wu Tsang
How do we sense entanglement? Can the knotting of ropes according to a poem’s rhythm make the social pulse of language matter?
Episode 10:
A Means Without End