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26 – 27 March 2022

CCA Annex (Online)

A Breath to Follow | Um sopro a se seguir

2 days of online discussions and artists presentations exploring the cosmological, decolonial, sensorial practises of Black and Indigenous grass roots art, dance and music collectives in Brazil.

Dois dias de discussões e apresentações online de artistes explorando as práticas cosmológicas, decoloniais e sensoriais de coletivoas de arte, dança e música de base negra e indígena no Brasil.

13 October 2005

The Universal

Stalled at Universal – Una MacGlone, Peter Nicholson & Aileen Campbell

Aileen Campbell Peter Nicholson Una MacGlone

Glasgow. Free-playing quartet of bass/ cello/ voice from The Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra and Age Of Wire & String.

INSTAL 05

long shot of the audience gathered around to take part in the discussion

18 April 2013

Tramway

A story that cannot be told, yet must be told. Zong! and its context

Fred Moten M. NourbeSe Philip

A conversation between Philip and Moten: how do we read NourbeSe’s anti-narrative poetic lament in Glasgow today, given the city’s role in the history of slavery?

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle

A 16mm film in has detailed instructions printed on its lid

22 February 2010

DCA

Urban Peasants

Ken Jacobs

Do almost nothing: re-present (unaltered and arranged by chance) silent family home movies handed down to Flo, (Ken’s wife) and follow them with a “teach yourself Yiddish” cassette tape.

Kill Your Timid Notion 10

20 – 24 November 2019

Tramway Online

Episode 10: A Means Without End

Complex ways of understanding our complex times. Maths & Poetics. Gesture & Physics. Collectivist Struggle & Desire. 5 days of performances, discussions, screenings and study sessions.

17 November 2017

Kinning Park Complex

Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex

Storyboard P

During Episode 9 we made this clip with Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex. Video by Ash Reid.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist

Carsten Nicolai operating some equipment near a projection

17 October 2003

DCA

Alva.Noto

Carsten Nicolai alva.noto

60 cycle hums, jagged static cracklings, and clipped electron pinpricks, mutating them into sublime, post-techno grooves

Kill Your Timid Notion 03

The Museum of Non Participation written on a wall in English and Arabic

20 January 2012

CCA

The Museum of Non-Participation

Brad Butler Karen Mirza Nabil Ahmed

This performance brings together film, text and speech and temporarily constructs a filmic space to think through questions of resistance, and the choice and consequence of action vs. inaction: what does it mean to choose to not take part?

Episode 1: A Film is a Statement

Four folks sit around a table looking out of frame to someone asking a question

20 April 2013

Tramway

The Experiment: Pt. 2

Amiri Baraka Fred Moten Sonia Sanchez Wadada Leo Smith

How does this practice, that simultaneously resists and honours the distinctions between these genres, materials and senses, determine the inhabitation of another: a convergence of aesthetic and social experimentation?

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle

Ailton Krenak wears a dark blue shirt and sits in a chair in front of a grey background.

Video Interview, Nov 2024

To Give Up This World, To Have Many Others – In Conversation with Ailton Krenak

Ailton Krenak (by video) Denise Ferreira da Silva Amilcar Packer

A recorded a conversation that grounds the Episode, exploring Ailton Krenak’s thinking and distinct poetics of life; as it work against capitalism and fascism, as a denunciation of political alliances, and maybe even of ‘politics’.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It

Pauline Oliveros holding an accordion while reading information from a laptop

16 October 2005

The Arches

Pauline Oliveros & David Dove

David Dove Pauline Oliveros

Since the 1960’s Oliverios has had a profound influence on generations of musicians through her work with myth and ritual, improvisation and meditation.

INSTAL 05

Multiple versions of several mythical looking characters look up at the camera

19 October 2003

DCA

Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda

Ira Cohen

Beat poet Ira Cohen’s now infamous and wildly psychedelic film odyssey feeds one’s own seeing apparatus through beautifully warped and distorting mylar mirrors, resulting in a film dense and rich with visual arcana and poetry.