Residency, May–July 2021
Trans Femme Futures
Mijke van der Drift Nat Raha
Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift undertake two intensive writing residencies at Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden and Hospitalfield in Arbroath.
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5 – 9 February 2012
Glasgow University Chapel
Glasgow Uni Music Dept
Kinning Park Complex
Investigation: Jean-Luc Guionnet
What’s the best way to spend time with a musician when they visit a city to perform? And when the musician in question has a great deal to say, what sort of concert do you organise to do justice to that?
14 February 2008
Glasgow Uni Music Dept
Personal Space
Aileen Campbell Neil Davidson
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
INSTAL 08
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
15 – 20 April 2014
MoMA PS1
The New School
Holiday Inn
Club Escuelitas
Master Ballstar Weekend
A series of events organised by the Vogue’ology collective from the House Ballroom community in New York grounded in the scenes history of autonomous, self-organised struggle and a shared investment in collective art practices and how those intersect with the multiple and often divergent struggles for freedom.
18 April 2014
The New School
Literary Reflections of Ballroom
Various Artists
A celebration of the release of four books written by members of, and focused on about the House and Ballroom scene.
Master Ballstar Weekend
22 November 2019
Tramway
Poetry, Mathematics, Debris
Fred Moten Nathaniel Mackey Fernando Zalamea
How do poetry and maths stitch together pictures of our fractured situation from its wreckage and relics, from the debris of hope and the well of residues that make us what we are?
Episode 10:
A Means Without End
24 February 2012
Tramway
De Musicorum Infelicitate
Esther Ferrer Walter Marchetti
‘Ten Pieces in the Form of Painful Variations’ for piano, an impossible score that looks like a grapeshot musical stave, a text of barbed loathing and doubt – an anti-composition.
Episode 2:
A Special Form of Darkness
21 January 2012
CCA
Argument – We would argue: an ante/post discussion group
Gil Leung Ian White
Ian and Gil will host a discussion on the Argument project’s social and political commentaries, and with you try and maybe think through whether and how they might still have some currency today: what’s changed and what’s stayed the same?
Episode 1:
A Film is a Statement
19 February 2006
DCA
Film Programme 4: Space
Guy Sherwin Thomas Köner Various Artists Takehisa Kosugi
A programme looking at landscape, filmic or architectural spaces and at how the fixed stare of a camera frame only captures so much reality; here we focus on how filmmakers structure our relationship with that reality and at how they relate it to or interpret it through sound.
Kill Your Timid Notion 06
14 October 2006
The Arches
Infest – Opaque
Opaque
Low-end drone guitarage army since 1997: nobody has done more on this occasion by a gaggle of sludge-lovers from the Scottish underground.
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