Mondays, 10 March to 5 May, 6-9pm
In Our Hands 2025
In Our Hands is a nine week programme of workshops exploring radical approaches to health and collective care in the movement for liberation and social justice.
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10 March 2025
Week One: Welcome Session
Lisa Fannen Sapna Agarwal
In this welcoming first session we will look at the basics of using plant medicine – things you might have in your kitchen or easily to hand. We will introduce preparation methods, contraindications, dosages & remedies for common ailments.
In Our Hands 2025
28 September 2014
Tramway
From Subjection to Subjection
Charlene Sinclair Saidiya Hartman Tourmaline
A conversation about the movement for prison abolition and refusing the logic of race and sex that underpins the criminalisation and mass incarceration of communities.
Episode 6:
Make a Way Out of No Way
16 October 2005
The Arches
Tom Bruno
Tom Bruno
Bruno’s liberated improvisational approach stretches beyond the lyrical, tough as nails rhythmic bursts and expressive, swinging attack of his drumming.
INSTAL 05
21 October 2016
Tramway
Queer Liberation: No Prisons, No Borders
Dean Spade Hope Dector Tourmaline
A crash-course in pre-figurative, radical, queer, anti-racist, anti-police, anti-prison, anti-deportation abolitionist politics and trans-resistance.
Episode 8:
Refuse Powers’ Grasp
15 October 2005
The Arches
Birchville Cat Motel
Birchville Cat Motel
Blissed-out sun-dappled drone ragas of the highest order, with a metal-tinged signature sound of plucked and bowed strings.
INSTAL 05
14 November 2010
Tramway
Noises Off
Matthieu Saladin
A kind of performed installation of searing noise and silence, where we’re not sure who the performer is, when it starts or ends or even who it’s for.
INSTAL 10
18 February 2006
DCA
Hototogisu & Bruce McClure
Bruce McClure Hototogisu
A collaboration bringing together artists with a shared gravitational heft to their work; an intense and concentrated accumulation of detail and power.
Kill Your Timid Notion 06
18 October 2003
DCA
Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages
Mirror Phantom Engineer
Mirror and Phantom Engineer performing an improvised soundtrack to Benjamin Christensen’s 1922 horror film prototype, Haxan: Witchcraft through the Ages.
Kill Your Timid Notion 03
7 – 8 April 2022
Performance Space New York
Online
No Diving 2
Storyboard P
Live in person at Performance Space New York and live-streamed everywhere! Watching Storyboard P dance feels like glimpsing into another world.
18 February 2006
DCA
Sandra Gibson, Luis Recoder & Daniel Menche
Luis Recoder Sandra Gibson Daniel Menche
A collaborative performance where sound and image are created, performed and mediated by light, water and glass.
Kill Your Timid Notion 06
16 February 2008
The Arches
Translation
Achim Wollscheid Kenneth Goldsmith
Kenneth Goldsmith reads extracts of his conceptual poetry and Achim Wollscheid manipulates mobile phone signals.
INSTAL 08