13 October 2006
The Arches
Oshiri Penpenz
Oshiri Penpenz
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
INSTAL 06
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IN OUR LIFETIME – A New Anti-Imperialist Resource
Hussein Mitha
IN OUR LIFETIME, is an anti-imperialist resource, edited by Hussein Mitha, produced by Arika for Episode 11, featuring poetry, essays, questions, prompts, letters and works of anti-colonial imaginary.
Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
19 April 2013
Tramway
Wadada Leo Smith & John Tilbury
John Tilbury Wadada Leo Smith
How might two of the great musicians working within contrasting traditions of freedom collaborate? What might this produce: musically, socially, allegorically?
Episode 4:
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
21 April 2013
Tramway
Unfree Improvisation / Compulsive Freedom
Mattin Ray Brassier
How do you know what you want? Should freedom be doing what you ought, not doing what you want? How might a philosopher and artist turn this thinking into an enabling condition in the context of noise and improvisation?
Episode 4:
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
10 August 2020
Online
Poetry is Not a Luxury: The Poetics of Abolition
Canisia Lubrin Christina Sharpe Nat Raha Saidiya Hartman Nydia A. Swaby
A panel exploring the poetics of abolition. “Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change.”
Revolution is not a one-time event
19 November 2017
Tramway
Beyond Transgression
Samuel R. Delany
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
Episode 9:
Other Worlds Already Exist
11 March 2022
Online
I Have Never Seen a Situation So Dismal That a Policeman Couldn’t Make It Worse
Not One Rogue Cop
A space to reflect on our own experiences with the police and explore more community and care-based ways of dealing with violence and difficulties in our lives.
Mutual Aid
28 September 2014
Tramway
Dance Workshop
Glasgow Open Dance School Miss Prissy
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
Episode 6:
Make a Way Out of No Way
12 March 2022
Online
Constantina Zavitsanos and Carolyn Lazard in Conversation
Carolyn Lazard Constantina Zavitsanos
Discussion: If we approach “care as an event” rather than as a “contract of exchange” then what becomes possible in how we know, care for, and appreciate each other?
Mutual Aid
6 July 2007
Union Terrace Gardens
Shadowed Spaces Aberdeen
Ikuro Takahashi Sean Meehan Tamio Shiraishi Denis Wood
Disused railway turning circle at east end of Union Terrace Gardens, a historically public space at the centre of a regeneration land-grab for the private gain of a local petro-chemical magnate.
Shadowed Spaces
25 February 2012
Tramway
Junko
Junko
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
Episode 2:
A Special Form of Darkness
17 October 2003
DCA
Cyclo
Carsten Nicolai Ryoji Ikeda
Two figureheads of the minimalist electronica pulse, Ikeda and Nicolai have been responsible for some of the most innovative and ground-breaking music of the last decade, redefining experimental electronica.
Kill Your Timid Notion 03