Hard Labour
All welcome to a weekend of sex worker resistance and joy! Workshops, talks and visual art, hosted by Scotland for Decrim.
Tell Me About It
Scotland for Decrim
Tell Me About It creates a space for direct one-to-one conversations with people who habitually find others (filmmakers, politicians, journalists) speaking on their behalf… In partnership with Edinburgh Art Festival.
Touching the Future
John Lee Clark
Dr Gabrielle Hodge shares words on Touching the Future, a Protactile project with John Lee Clark, Soline Vennetier, Issy McGrath, Lisa van der Mark, Kyle Bettley and Jordan Goldman, supported by Arika, kickstarting radical DeafBlind Protactile world-building in Glasgow.
There are other ways to know and be in the world. Arika has an organisational artistic practice, based in research, relationships and encounters, engaging with experimental or un-recuperated aesthetics.
We explore alternative perspectives and understandings drawn from the intersections of art, philosophy, ethics and politics, as they contribute to cultural, social or political change, and give our lives meaning. We seek to find ways to prefigure a future world by the ways we move in our current one.
▴ 'DJ-E' performance with Chuquimamani-Condori at Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It at Tramway Glasgow on Sunday 17 November 2024
▴ 'Ueinzz Crossings' workshop with Ueinzz Theatre Company at Arika's Episode 7: We Can't Live Without Our Lives at Tramway, Glasgow on Friday 17th April 2015
▴ 'The We of Revolutionary Love' study session with Houria Bouteldja at Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It at Tramway in Glasgow on Sunday 16 November 2024
▴ 'Corpus Infinitum' study session with Denise Ferreira da Silva at Arika's Episode 10: A Means Without End at Tramway in Glasgow on Thursday 21st November 2019
Archive
The Archive is a space to share the documentation of our work, over 1,000 events from the past 20+ years!
Episodes
Resistance | Power
Some suggestions of ways in to exploring this theme could be Hortense Spillers’ conversation with Denise Ferreria da Silva on fleshliness and bodiliness and the From Subjection to Subjection discussion with Reina Gossett, Charlene Sinclair and Saidiya Hartman or Mujeres Creando throwing eggs in their Recipes to Change Society provocation.
For Ever Gaza
Ayreen Anastas Rene Gabri
An improvised film about our worlds at the brink, on the edge, in front of a crisis. To stand on the side of life, by seeing the resistance to genocide in Palestine as a turning point to overcome.
Based on a True Story – 1986
Rashad Becker
The most sophisticated synthetic music around: timbrally otherwise body music as sonified fictions and auditive sociograms.
Rehearsals for Living
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Robyn Maynard Harry Josephine Giles
Reading their letters to each other, and chatting about prefigurative politics as the practice of relentlessly building worlds through unspeakable violence and loss; of building worlds and living in them anyway.
To Give Up This World, To Have Many Others – In Conversation with Ailton Krenak
Ailton Krenak (by video) Denise Ferreira da Silva Amilcar Packer
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’.
Against a monoculture of thought
Geni Núñez Amilcar Packer
Thinking against the monoculturalism of Western thought—of faith, affection, sexuality and gender—which completely lacks any utility to, or descriptive value of Indigenous worldviews.
Something Said
Jay Bernard
Haunted by the archive of the New Cross Fire, Jay Bernard presents a film and poetry reading that undertakes a queer exploration of black British history, reconstructed from archives and apparent debris.
Beyond | Category
With these theme we want to set work that doesn’t seem to fit close to or in any category at all alongside work that deals explicitly with category and practices of categorising, or escaping category. A couple of suggestions for starting to investigate this theme could be Teresa Maria Diaz Nerio’s performed film lecture about Caribbean cinema and Fred Moten and Saidiya Hartman disucssing what it might mean to be fugitive.
We collaborate with filmmakers, performers, dancers, musicians, philosophers, activists, community organisers, educators, academics, and writers.
Leda Maria Martins
Françoise Vergès
Mahmoud Alshaer
Ayreen Anastas
Hannah Proctor