
It Doesn’t Say What It Says
Loïc Blairon
Open-ended, paradoxical and performed investigations into: misunderstanding, language games, form saturated with sense, and consecutive matters…
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Open-ended, paradoxical and performed investigations into: misunderstanding, language games, form saturated with sense, and consecutive matters…
A tour with John Butcher and Akio Suzuki that set out to allow the audience to experience (and to listen to) the enviroment around them in different way.
An extravagant debauch of huge pianos, plush toys, cognac and ritual.
Join Umbrella Lane and special guest migrant trans sex workers in a community discussion about the points of intersection in LGBT people’s rights and sex worker’s rights.
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
Jandek’s second ever live performance, and the first to be advertised in advance.
Shutter Interface is an expanded cinema piece: a series of machinegun bursts of chromatic relationships and visual harmonics in an overwhelming montage
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
A public walk from George Square to the Barras market bringing contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
A recorded a conversation that grounds the Episode, exploring Ailton Krenak’s thinking and distinct poetics of life; as it work against capitalism and fascism, as a denunciation of political alliances, and maybe even of ‘politics’.