21 – 23 August 2026
Hard Labour
All welcome to a weekend of sex worker resistance and joy! Workshops, talks and visual art, hosted by Scotland for Decrim.
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23 August 2026, 12:00
Stripper Life Drawing, hosted by East London Stripper Collective
Life drawing class for artists of all genders, backgrounds and levels of ability, 18+. Draw strippers and sex workers as they perform their usual club routines, in a different context; from the strip club to the art gallery.
Hard Labour
12 March 2022
Online
Watch What Happens Live with Kyla Harris and Lou Macnamara
Lou Macnamara Kyla Harris
In true reality television style, this in-depth artist talk will tackle all the hardest-hitting questions and juiciest details about care, creative collaboration, and disability justice.
Mutual Aid
21 June 2023
Altar: Odes to the Lost/ never lost Introduction
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Introducing and setting intentions for a crip grief transformation and witness altar. A place to sit and breathe, remember our dead, wash our hands and leave offerings to and for loved ones we’ve lost – and for ourselves.
I wanna be with you everywhere 2023
29 November 2008
BFI Southbank
CCA
Arnolfini
Word Associations
Various Artists Guy Sherwin John Smith
A programme of discontinuity between narration, text and image. Including Manual Saiz’s employment of John Malkovich’s Spanish dubbing double and Peter Rose’s absurdly hilarious concrete poetry subtitling chaos.
Kill Your Timid Notion on Tour
10 October 2008
DCA
Salon and Q&A
Kjell Björgeengen William Bennett Zoe Irvine
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
Kill Your Timid Notion 08
10 – 14 April 2019
Performance Space New York
I wanna be with you everywhere
I wanna be with you everywhere was a gathering of, by, and for disabled artists and writers and anyone who wanted to get with us for a series of crip meet-ups, performances, readings and other social spaces of surplus, abundance and joy.
13 October 2006
The Bridge
Symphony for Swimmers
David Dove Nmperign
During their time in Scotland for Instal 06 Dave Dove, Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelly did some improvisation workshops and performances in and around Glasgow.
INSTAL 06
15 May 2010
Tramway
Inferno Quiz Show
Taku Unami
Cardboard boxes, metal guitar, critical homage, attempts to describe things you can’t describe. A one-man Grand Guignol school play.
UNINSTAL
13 November 2010
Tramway
String Quartet
Neil Davidson
Three different performances variously featuring: Fritz Welch, loud drums, guitar, local collaborators, paper, memories, Roland Barthes, string quartets
INSTAL 10
25 November 2023
Conway Hall
Book Launch: Truth and Lies (London)
Marin Scarlett Lib Lobberson ZuZu Gabrielli Maedb Joy Black Venus Chaoying Rao
An evening extravaganza celebrating the London launch of Truth & Lies: an Anthology of Writing and Art by Sex Workers
Expect slutty DJs, playful performances, stripper poles, rococo cakes, union broads and intimate readings…
17 April 2015
Tramway
TLRS Morning Show
Laurence Rassel Terre Thaemlitz
(Cyber)feminist, non-essentialist transgender and queer daily radio shows using the formula of morning radio as an arch way of thinking about the scripted behaviour and controlled empathy of systematic care.