 
Defaalt
Defaalt
Glasgow based artist Defaalt invites the audience to collaborate fully in his performance by means of a generative graphical interface.
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Glasgow based artist Defaalt invites the audience to collaborate fully in his performance by means of a generative graphical interface.
 
How do people both inside and outside of prison work together to dismantle the criminal justice system and build a society based on collective care?
 
In this interactive workshop, Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid, will share key principles, explore common challenges in mutual aid work, and offer tools for working through them.
 
INSTAL’s third outing saw performances by AMM, Cosmos (Sachiko M & Ami Yoshida), Voreboms, Vibracathedral Orchestra with Matthew Bower and John Godbert, Paragon Ensemble, Merzbow and Ryoji Ikeda.
 
What kind of listening and acknowledging do we offer each other? What is it to listen to an ‘elsewhere’, and do we ever do anything else when we listen to music?
 
Philip Jeck creates slowly evolving symphonies that are as much about the crackling hiss of old vinyl as the actual ‘musical’ material.
 
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
 
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
 
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
 
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
 
Black-clad with an ominous aura created by their distorted guitar epics, burnt-out ballads and raucous mantric jams.
 
A beautifully crisp, slowly evolving duo for cello and projected images. Abstract but still figurative; change only noticeable after the fact.