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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15 April 2007
DCA
Film Programme 5: Word
Emma Hart Guy Sherwin Paul Sharits Various Artists John Smith
Includes: a £20 note, stock fluctuations, an examination of words in the video medium, a linguistic challenge for your mind, a frame by frame dissection 50 words, shop front poetry, image and language head to head and newspapers under the microscope.
Kill Your Timid Notion 07
22 October 2016
Tramway
Recipes to Change Society
Mujeres Creando
A sort of prayer and conference, a sort of scream and dialogue – a monologue and declaration at the time, addressing how we can build complicity with one another.
Episode 8:
Refuse Powers’ Grasp
23 October 2016
Tramway
Blackness, Animality and the Unsovereign
Che Gossett
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
Episode 8:
Refuse Powers’ Grasp
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
18 November 2017
Tramway
Being for Others
Samuel R. Delany
Chip’s written some of the greatest of all Sci-Fi and Fantasy—page turning character driven diamond-hard novels and short stories: each a lens that refracts our real-life struggles and desires.
Episode 9:
Other Worlds Already Exist
22 February 2010
DCA
Investigation – Taku Unami
Taku Unami
With Taku we’ll carry out some simple proposals for doing almost nothing, for re-thinking sound with whatever comes to hand.
Kill Your Timid Notion 10
13 April 2007
DCA
Keith Evans & Coelacanth
Keith Evans Loren Chasse
A system in which film is projected onto copper strips, captured again and then re-projected as video, somehow transforming the original imagery into molasses-slow, molten and incredibly tactile flickers of colour and light.
Kill Your Timid Notion 07
13 October 2006
The Arches
Infest – Usurper
Usurper
Miniscule free-noise hissy-fits and broken instrument scrape/ squeal jams from the fools what brought you Giant Tank.
INSTAL 06
17 February 2006
DCA
Emma Hart & Benedict Drew
Benedict Drew Emma Hart
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
Kill Your Timid Notion 06
15 November 2024
Tramway
Live Stream
More Than Perfect
Denise Ferreira da Silva Arissana Pataxó Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Geni Núñez Ailton Krenak (by video)
A conversation between influential figures thinking through Blackness and Indigeneity, asking: what if we took seriously the possibility that this world, as we know it, may be coming to an end? We dread the loss of this world, but have we begun to imagine the one to come?
Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
21 March 2009
The Arches
Carnival
Steve McCaffery
Leading language/ action/ sound poet performed his groundbreaking concrete poem, a dizzying mandala of text, symbols and rubber stamps; a kind of book as reading machine.
INSTAL 09