Sex Work 101: The World’s Oldest Oppres(Profes)sion
A 101 panel on sex work in Scotland, hosted by National Ugly Mugs, Sex Workers Union, Scotland for Decrim (Decrim Now) host
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A 101 panel on sex work in Scotland, hosted by National Ugly Mugs, Sex Workers Union, Scotland for Decrim (Decrim Now) host
Four perspectives from people involved in different anti-capitalist and anti-racist struggles, considering how ideas of ‘ending’ have shaped their political thinking and praxis.
In the Foyer at the Tramway we will screen a documentary from the Sex Workers’ Festival of Resistance 2017 and La Llamada by Eduardo Restrepo Castaño.
Performance of a Sudoko based graphic score giving rise to a process of self cancellation.
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
Amid the blur of erotics, the jangle of poetics, and the fetishizing of sickness and disability, the heat of Panteha’s performance and sculpture freezes all.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
A community of those without community, for a community to come. A schizo-scenic video-collage of the disturbing ‘normality’ of Moby Dick.
Improvising using nothing so much as the passage of time as his instrument, Basinski creates works of great melancholic depth and fragile beauty.