
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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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.
A performance for projectionist, musicians and audience, which plays with references to Oscar Levant and Gershwin: apparently a series of small doses of chaos.
Hartmut is going to talk a little about his work at large and the politics of how his films are constructed. And we’ll screen one of his best films: B-52.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
A celebration of risk taking and adventure from some of the boldest pioneers of the past 40 years, melding avant garde and underground forms of music and moving image to create new experiments and experiences in sight and sound.
Post consideration and post rationalisation… How do we think about experimental music and film after the performance?
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
A talk entitled ‘The Conquest of the Universe’: which delves into the connections between the underground filmmakers and musicians in New York in the early 1960s
A performative survey of listening, as we managed to find it being used as a tool in different practices, disciplines and communities in North America (music, poetry, film, philosophy, activism…).
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.