15 May 2010
Tramway
Bleu Shut
Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.
UNINSTAL
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19 November 2017
Tramway
The Cybernetic Cop
Jackie Wang
A prison abolitionist punk video-poetry-music mash up about our fucked-up dystopian society, RoboCop, kids toys and criminality.
Episode 9:
Other Worlds Already Exist
11 October 2008
DCA
Film Programme: Bleu Shut
A kind of audience activating, structured film guessing game in the manipulation of time, sound and image. “At 11:15, weiners. At 21:05, pornography. At 23:30, a duet. Watch the Clock.”
Kill Your Timid Notion 08
26 September 2014
Tramway
Killer of Sheep
Killer of Sheep is an undisputed masterpiece of African-American filmmaking and one of the most poetic, perceptive dramas ever made about family and community.
Episode 6:
Make a Way Out of No Way
21 June 2023
Performance in the spirit and celebration of Aster of Ceremonies
JJJJJerome Ellis
Ellis’s processional, precessional cessation and continuation of movement and music comes to us via his forthcoming release Aster of Ceremonies (Milkweed Editions, 2023)
I wanna be with you everywhere 2023
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 November 2019
Tramway
Mobedique Hors Acvé
Ueinzz
A community of those without community, for a community to come. A schizo-scenic video-collage of the disturbing ‘normality’ of Moby Dick.
Episode 10:
A Means Without End
22 October 2016
Tramway
[b]reach: The Fugitive Chronicles – an open rehearsal
Gallery of the Streets Glasgow Open Dance School Kai Lumumba Barrow
The ongoing development of [b]reach, an abolitionist black queer retelling of Marge Piercy’s incredible feminist utopian novel Woman on the Edge of Time.
Episode 8:
Refuse Powers’ Grasp
13 October 2006
The Arches
Blood Stereo & Ludo Mich
Blood Stereo Ludo Mich
Blood Stereo & Ludo Mich: linking past and present generations of DIY intuitive expression in a post fluxus ‘big mess’.
INSTAL 06
16 November 2017
Tramway
The Body is a Sanctuary That Floats
Storyboard P
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
Episode 9:
Other Worlds Already Exist
20 September – 12 October 2008
DCA
Figment Light – Kjell Björgeengen
Kjell Björgeengen
The reknowned artist Kjell Bjørgeengen works collaboratively with innovative musicians to make complex installations. Channels of flickering light are produced in response to and from sound.
Kill Your Timid Notion 08
13 November 2010
Tramway
Steven Anderson
Steven Anderson
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
INSTAL 10