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, 11:00
Coffee, Croissants and Massage
Five Rivers Massage
Coffee, Croissants & Massage – a welcoming breakfast for all with massage by qualified massage therapists present to give hand & head massages.
Hard Labour
1 December 2002
The Arches
Eclipse of the Moon from the Backyard
Koji Asano Paragon Ensemble
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
INSTAL 02
23 November 2019
Tramway
Untitled Hand Dance
boychild
“Hidden in the hands an alluvial transcription of reach and embrace. The final flickers of the body’s expression, caress and touch.” – boychild
Episode 10:
A Means Without End
15 October 2006
The Arches
Maryanne Amacher
Maryanne Amacher
A rare live performance which, although not a full installation, made use of the unique acoustic and spatial properties of the Arches to rattle the audience and help it locate its third ear.
INSTAL 06
22 March 2009
The Arches
Free-form hook up
Ben Knight Hannah Ellul Neil Davidson
Two-parts Helhesten spit strangled shanties and cracked reeds from under a net of the Glasgow Improv Orchestra’s six-strings and one moustache.
INSTAL 09
16 – 19 November 2017
Tramway
Kinning Park Complex
Many Studios
Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
4 days of performances, discussions, workshops, screenings with mutant dancers, prison abolitionist poets, transfeminist revolutionaries, haunted noise, science fiction, sex worker resistance, crip erotics, radical pornography and militant fiction.
28 February 2010
DCA
Film Programme 6: Production
Ken Jacobs Various Artists
The production of moving image (film) by the mechanically, unfalteringly repetitive manipulation of mass-produced materials (film), in order to explore three different allegorical representations (films) of repetitive human actions and labour under capital.
Kill Your Timid Notion 10
27 February 2010
DCA
Film Programme 3: Collective Actions
Various Artists
Individual experience separated by physical boundaries (of space, time or ability) suggested as communities of collective experience by (perhaps voyeuristic) artists.
Kill Your Timid Notion 10
17 February 2008
The Arches
Golden Cherry Ball
MV & EE The Cherry Blossoms
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
INSTAL 08
15 February 2008
The Arches
Self Cancellation – Sand
Robin Hayward
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
INSTAL 08
25 February 2012
Tramway
Rehearsal after Reflect Soft Matte Discourse
Clara López Imri Sandström Malin Arnell
A performed reflection on Malin’s previous re-enacting of a super influential landmark of performance art from the French feminist and artist Gina Pane.
Episode 2:
A Special Form of Darkness