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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9 December 2001
The Arches
INSTAL 01
The first INSTAL festival (programmed by Barry Esson of Arika and Tiernan Kelly) featured a line-up including Robert Lippock, Philip Jeck, Fennesz, Paragon Ensemble, Icebreaker International, Defaalt and Rhomboi.
13 October 2006
The Arches
Infest – Hockyfrilla & Muscletusk
Hockyfrilla Muscletusk
Ex-Decaer Pinga and CKDH rodeo queens; regular ladynoise hoedown gets gatecrashed by sonic chunder-huffing remedial clatter boys.
INSTAL 06
16 October 2004
The Arches
Baby Dee
Baby Dee
Former street performer, organist, performance artist, circus performer, harpist, accordion player, tree surgeon and tricyclist performing solo.
INSTAL 04
24 November 2019
Tramway
Nathaniel Mackey
Nathaniel Mackey
“Mackey composes realist-mythic layering of lyrical prose unlike anything being written today.” — New York Times. “Our greatest living epic poet…Mackey’s poetry and criticism have reinvented modernism for our time.”— LitHub
Episode 10:
A Means Without End
16 May 2010
Kinning Park Complex
In The Shadow of Shadow – Listening Session
The Strickland Distribution Ultra-red
Strickland Distribution and Ultra-red give a practical sound workshop bringing together walk participants to discuss the issues raised during the walk
UNINSTAL
24 November 2019
Tramway
The utterly in common, or bodies of colour in the flesh
James Goodwin Nisha Ramayya
“Beginning where you and me ends, where we don’t so much come but are already here.” Join James and Nisha to talk about breath, erotics and flesh, about our social, poetic cosubstantiality.
Episode 10:
A Means Without End
11 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead
Topias Tiheäsalo
Topias Tiheäsalo
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
19 February 2006
DCA
Kazuo Imai & Atsuhiro Ito
Atsuhiro Ito Kazuo Imai
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
Kill Your Timid Notion 06
21 February 2010
DCA
Hotel Diaries 1-8
John Smith
These simple, one-take videos, relate personal experiences to the current conflicts in the Middle East via the most basic of means (a hotel room, a camcorder, John’s personal thoughts, concerns and convictions).
Kill Your Timid Notion 10
19 November 2017
Tramway
Lonely and Hungry
Jackie Wang
Heat-mapped bodies, found porn films, Korean psyche-folk, creepy police intrusion and self-defence.
Episode 9:
Other Worlds Already Exist
2 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art
A Handbook of Protocols for Literary Listening
Craig Dworkin Vanessa Place
Craig will give a guided reading of his handbook of exemplary instances of literary listening and will be joined by one of the selected authors, Vanessa Place.
A survey is a process of listening