Residency, May–July 2021
Trans Femme Futures
Mijke van der Drift Nat Raha
Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift undertake two intensive writing residencies at Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden and Hospitalfield in Arbroath.
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16 November 2024
Tramway
Live Stream
The Ancestral Present
Karrabing Film Collective Elwood Jimmy
Watching films and chatting with Karrabing members about those films: as they attend to the memory and practice of the ancestral present and the ancestral catastrophe that Karrabing and their more-than-human world find themselves facing.
Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
23 October 2016
Tramway
Prefiguring the World We Want to Live In
Che Gossett Kai Lumumba Barrow Miss Major Tourmaline
How do communities practice being one another’s means, addressing their material problems facing them replicating the state’s violent logic of who is disposable.
Episode 8:
Refuse Powers’ Grasp
16 April 2015
Tramway
TLRS Morning Show
Laurence Rassel Terre Thaemlitz
(Cyber)feminist, non-essentialist transgender and queer daily radio shows using the formula of morning radio as an arch way of thinking about the scripted behaviour and controlled empathy of systematic care.
Episode 7:
We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
12 October 2008
DCA
Declarative Mode (1976 – 1977)
Paul Sharits
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Kill Your Timid Notion 08
13 March 2022
Online
Frequency of Touch: the Making of Motherhood
Helen Charman Margaret Salmon
This session focuses in on the defiant mutual aid practices of early and DIY feminist movements in the UK, that attempted to shift and radicalise care and kinship away from the domain of the nuclear family.
Mutual Aid
22 March 2009
The Arches
A Signature of the Room
Jean-Luc Guionnet Taku Unami
Simple maths and stringent scored instructions move precise frequencies and clicks to create a dense, fluctuating environment of standing waves and physical sound.
INSTAL 09
12 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead
Polwechsel
Burkhard Beins John Butcher Martin Brandlmayr Michael Moser Werner Dafeldecker
With a signature spartan sound and long term preoccupation in structural tactics (subtle shifts in density, drawn out stasis) Polwechsel blur the boundaries between individual instruments.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
9 October 2008
DCA
Feral Choir
Phil Minton
A Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by improviser yodeller, composer Phil Minton.
Kill Your Timid Notion 08
18 November 2017
Tramway
Moved by the Motion
boychild TOTAL FREEDOM Wu Tsang
Sci-fi. After the club. Underground. Counter-narrative. Narrated movement. Cultural resistance. Wu Tsang and boychild’s collaborative performance series, will continue its evolution at Episode 9 with the addition of TOTAL FREEDOM.
Episode 9:
Other Worlds Already Exist
16 October 2004
The Arches
Six Organs of Admittance
Six Organs of Admittance
Pitching Fahey inspired, eastern-infused folk vibrations, sad elliptical drones and oracle chants into one kaleidoscopic sound.
INSTAL 04
27 June 2006
Wormit Reservoir
Wormit Reservoir
Akio Suzuki John Butcher
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
Resonant Spaces