13 October 2005
The Universal
Stalled at Universal – Opaque
Opaque
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
INSTAL 05
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27 September 2014
Tramway
Touching the Imperceptible
Arthur Jafa Kara Keeling
A performed filmic conversation on queer and black world making.
Episode 6:
Make a Way Out of No Way
20 April 2013
Tramway
The Experiment: Pt. 1
Amiri Baraka Fred Moten Wadada Leo Smith Sonia Sanchez
What happens when you are engaged in a deep and extended artistic practice that intersects between literature and music, notation and improvisation, sight and sound?
Episode 4:
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
12 April 2007
DCA
Chord of the Fifth Force
Barry Weisblat
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
Kill Your Timid Notion 07
14 April 2007
DCA
Film Programme 2: Humans
Ken Jacobs Various Artists John Smith
Includes: street portraits of kids in 1930’s Dakota, a mysterious foggy pilgrimage, a swarm of time-lapsed consumers, a stereoscopic analysis of mill life, up close and personal in a Lighting Bolt mosh pit.
Kill Your Timid Notion 07
22 August 2026, 14:30
Tell Me About It – Human Library®
Scotland for Decrim The Human Library®
Imagine entering a library where readers can borrow human beings serving as open books. Then select a book stack that specialises in sex work.
Hard Labour
12 November 2010
Tramway
Eject & No Disc
Matthieu Saladin
French improviser, composer, writer & musical thinker of dry humour and elegant clarity. Sly conjurer of music from the unconsidered processes of music making.
INSTAL 10
24 August 2020
Online
Happy Birthday, Marsha!
adrienne maree brown Black Obsidian Sound System Lola Olufemi Tourmaline
On the birthday of Marsha P. Johnson, this event brings together several elements that celebrate the radical care and kinship characteristic of the Trans revolutionary.
Revolution is not a one-time event
20 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead
The Secret of Music
Keiji Haino
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
14 November 2024
Tramway
Live Stream
Bring a Witness
Sadia Shirazi Mezna Qato
Sadia Shirazi & Mezna Qato will discuss a series of scores that explore the texture and landscape of exile, resistance, and Muslim sociality. These instructional scores trouble the idea that art and activism are untouched by faith and faith is untouched by art and activism.
Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
13 October 2006
The Arches
Ellen Fullman & Sean Meehan
Ellen Fullman Sean Meehan
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
INSTAL 06
26 May 2013
Tramway
An Archive of Feelings
Ann Cvetkovich
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
Episode 5:
Hidden in Plain Sight