Mondays, 10 March to 5 May, 6-9pm
In Our Hands 2025
In Our Hands is a nine week programme of workshops exploring radical approaches to health and collective care in the movement for liberation and social justice.
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6 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art
What is the Sound of Freedom?
Ultra-red
For day five of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will review the previous work undertaken together, and perhaps draw up a summary of reflections and pose some future questions.
A survey is a process of listening
12 April 2007
DCA
The Cube
Christophe Cardoen Etienne Caire Gaëlle Rouard Jerome Noetinger Kris Auger Lionel Marchetti Xavier Quérel
The Cube is a 6 hour performed installation in which sound and image are treated as independent but equal, where musicians and filmmakers sit alongside each other, improvise to and feed off both projected image and amplified and acoustic sound.
Kill Your Timid Notion 07
10 December 2004
DCA
AMM & Malcolm Le Grice
Malcolm Le Grice AMM
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
Kill Your Timid Notion 04
12 July 2007
A concrete walkway ending in mid air
Shadowed Spaces Newcastle
Ikuro Takahashi Sean Meehan Tamio Shiraishi Denis Wood
A concrete walkway ending in mid air, a ridiculously tight squeeze between three office buildings and various other sites of Labour politician and council leader T. Dan Smith’s modernist regeneration projects and ‘slum clearances’ of the 1950’s and 60’s.
Shadowed Spaces
16 October 2004
The Arches
Charlemagne Palestine
Charlemagne Palestine
An extravagant debauch of plush toys and ritual. Palestine performed a version of Strumming Music, a trance inducing investigation into overtone systems achievable on a Bosendorfer Imperial Piano.
INSTAL 04
23 October 2016
Tramway
Juliana Huxtable
Ahya Simone Joe Heffernan Juliana Huxtable
Juliana’s performances chart the dissonant space and discrepancy between the presumed fixed norms of social life and the fluid lived experience those norms don’t allow for.
Episode 8:
Refuse Powers’ Grasp
21 April 2013
Tramway
Fred Moten – Chat
Fred Moten
In many ways, this Episode is our attempt to engage with Fred’s incredible writing: with his proposal that all black performance (culture, politics, sexuality, identity, and blackness itself) is improvisation.
Episode 4:
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
14 November 2024
Tramway
BARRUNTO
Emilia Beatriz
A speculative narrative film informed by poetry and theories of quantum entanglement across diasporic distance. An intimate exploration of grief and resistance in shifting landscapes of loss, from the streets to the bed.
Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
24 November 2019
Tramway
Nathaniel Mackey
Nathaniel Mackey
“Mackey composes realist-mythic layering of lyrical prose unlike anything being written today.” — New York Times. “Our greatest living epic poet…Mackey’s poetry and criticism have reinvented modernism for our time.”— LitHub
Episode 10:
A Means Without End
18 October 2003
DCA
Short Film Programme 1: Retrospective
Various Artists
The first of two short film programmes featuring works that blur the boundaries between music and film from artists who cross and redefine those long held divisions. This programme focuses on the forebearers of filmic and musical innovation over the last 70 years.
Kill Your Timid Notion 03
27 September 2014
Tramway
You’ve Never Seen Pain Expressed Like This
Danielle Goldman Kia Labeija Miss Prissy Pony Zion
A freestyle performed conversation for bodies and voices – with the Queen of Krump, the master of Vogue Femme Dramatics and the rising star of Vogue Women’s Performance.
Episode 6:
Make a Way Out of No Way