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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15 February 2008
Stereo
Incapacitants
Incapacitants Junko Kazuo Imai
Ecstatic, scalding and ludicrously heavy, nobody matches Incapacitants for live noise energy. One of the most exhilarating live acts in underground music.
INSTAL 08
13 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead
Jean-Philippe Gross
Jean-Philippe Gross
Solo by Jean-Philippe Gross, a French electro-acoustic improviser, working with mixing board, cheap mics, small speakers and an analog synth, built around a honed interest in feedback.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
12 November 2010
Tramway
Overheard (Performance Part 1) and Festival Introduction
Resonance Radio Orchestra
The first performative part in a game of chance and endurance as actor Tam Dean Burn constantly broadcasts for 24hrs.
INSTAL 10
9 March 2022
Mutual Aid on the Road to Abolition
Dean Spade Abolitionist Futures
How do we make the connections between the mutual aid practices of our daily lives and anti-capitalist efforts to dismantle wider systems of exploitation?
Mutual Aid
21 March 2009
The Arches
Free-form hook up
Ali Robertson Euan Currie Fritz Welch
Dead Labour Process drool-tape farmer, squeaking/creaking Usurper brother and Peeesseye’s yodelling traps-man hold a real OUT splutter party.
INSTAL 09
20 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead
MICRO 1
Takehisa Kosugi
MICRO 1 – Wrap a live microphone with a very large sheet of paper. Make a light bundle. Keep the microphone live for another 5 minutes. T. Kosugi – (1961)
Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
21 March 2009
CCA
Encuentro Glasgow
Ultra-red
A public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.
INSTAL 09
19 October 2003
DCA
Ruins & Ian Halliwell
Ian Helliwell
Giants of the Japanese avant-rock scene Ruins are a hardcore prog rock bass + drums duo led by drummer extraordinaire Tatsuya Yoshida and joined in Dundee by Sasaki Hisashi.
Kill Your Timid Notion 03
19 – 22 January 2012
CCA
GFT
Episode 1: A Film is a Statement
Every aspect of every film is always about more than just film. Or, as Godard said: a tracking shot is a moral issue. A cross between a festival, magazine and discussion about experimental artists’ films.
4 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art
Paramedia
Yasunao Tone
A dense, hard, immersive, chaotic spatial performance in sound: a momentary gap in consciousness, free of order or decision.
A survey is a process of listening
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.