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A voice that can vault from an elegantly whispered insinuation to asphyxiated and murderous barks or squalls in a heartbeat.
Jarrod Fowler and Christof Migone kick things off with performances involving edible plants, a saw, dandruff, and Christof responding to the prompt: “as far as you can for as long as you can.”
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
“Introduction to Protactile Theory” is a legendary seminar that facilitator John Lee Clark has designed to bring diverse communities into conversation with the Protactile movement.
In the Foyer at the Tramway we will screen a documentary from the Sex Workers’ Festival of Resistance 2017 and La Llamada by Eduardo Restrepo Castaño.
Writing that shows us that, even in struggle, there is light to be let in.
The second in a series of workshops for workers and non-workers who care. What does the sharing of vulnerability entail? Can such a sharing inform progressive social relations?
A whistle stop tour of visual and material culture that has anchored the sex workers rights movement through the decades until today.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
A welcoming intermission between events, open to the public.
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.