Tramway

Events at Tramway (25 Albert Drive, Glasgow)

All the Colours of the Dark, Except Black

Location	Date	Tickets
	Film critic Evan Calder Williams argues that horror cinema draws not on a deep lurking darkness, but simply the fact that there is no depth, only endless layers of surface. View full details
Tramway	26 Feb 3.30pm Part of Arika12 Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness.	0845 330 3501 Day pass £6; festival pass £14

ARIKA12 Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness

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	The second installment of Arika's experimental art-film offering this year takes a look at how ideas of nihilism and darkness permeate music, queer theory, performance art and even neuroscience via a range of performances, talks and films. View full details
Tramway	24 Feb–26 Feb Times vary	0845 330 3501 Prices vary

ARIKA12 Episode 3: Copying Without Copying

Location	Date	Tickets
	The last in Arika's series of short festivals is focused on copying and repetition in experimental performances. An informal atmosphere means that discussion of each performance between artist, writer and audience is welcomed. View full details
Tramway	23 Mar–24 Mar Times vary	0845 330 3501 Prices vary

Become What You Are

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	Acclaimed performance artist Dawn Kasper enacts a series of vignettes dealing with what Nietzsche described as 'the evidently paradoxical task of becoming what you (already) are'. View full details
Tramway	25 Feb 9pm Part of Arika12 Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness.	0845 330 3501 Day pass £6; festival pass £14

Cosmic Pessimism

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	Specialist in the occult, philosopher and occasional noise artist Eugene Thacker thinks aloud about the unthinkable, and confronts the idea that the reality of the world has nothing much to do with humans. View full details
Tramway	26 Feb 5pm Part of Arika12 Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness.	0845 330 3501 Day pass £6; festival pass £14

De Musicorum Infelicitate

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	Esther Ferrer performs the anarchic conceptual composition by Waler Marchetti. Part of Arika12 Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness. View full details
Tramway	25 Feb 9.15pm	0845 330 3501 Day pass £6 ; festival pass £14

Deflag Haemorrhage and Haien Kontra

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	Ferocious noise and free improv and this Abject Music event. Part of Arika12 Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness. View full details
Tramway	24 Feb 7.30pm	0845 330 3501 Day pass £6 ; festival pass £14

The Dilapidated Dwelling

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	Best known for the documentaries London and Robinson in Space, idiosyncratic essayist Patrick Keiller turns his attention to the British love affair with old houses in The Dilapidated Dwelling. Why does the nation prefer ancient to modern, vintage to brand new? The question is seen through the work of a woman who has spent twenty years in the Arctic with people who build their homes from snow. Now she is asked to investigate 'the predicament of the house'. So why do the British cling to their… View full details and ticket info
Tramway	21 Feb 7pm Part of Glasgow Film Festival 2012.	0141 332 6535 £4.50 (£3.50)

Gordon Schmidt: the soul is easier to know than the body

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	A video and sound installation continuing Schmidt's ongoing interest in the correlation between performance, document and individual experience. View full details
Tramway	27 Jan–26 Feb Tue–Fri noon–5pm; Sat & Sun noon–6pm	Free

Inhuman Grand-Guignol Theatre

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	Inspired by HP Lovecraft, black metal and philosophical horror, Japanese minimal performance artist Taku Unami explores the essential absurdity of bothering to do anything at all in a cosmologically meaningless world. View full details
Tramway	26 Feb 7.30pm Part of Arika12 Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness.	0845 330 3501 Day pass £6; festival pass £14

Junko

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	Intense, harrowing vocal performance from Junko, one of the founding members of Japanese noise band Hijokaidan. Part of Arika12 Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness. View full details
Tramway	25 Feb 10.30pm	0845 330 3501 Day pass £6 ; festival pass £14

Keiji Haino

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	Vocal introspection from this renowned experimental noise rock musician. Part of Arika12 Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness. View full details
Tramway	26 Feb 9.15pm	0845 330 3501 Day pass £6 ; festival pass £14

Kelly Nipper: Black Forest

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	An ambitious work incorporating elements of dance, textiles and photography. Part of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. View full details
Tramway	20 Apr–7 May To be confirmed	Free

Macbeth

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	Alan Cumming stars in a new one-man adaptation of Macbeth from the National Theatre of Scotland. View full details
Tramway	14 Jun–30 Jun To be confirmed	0845 330 3501 To be confirmed

The Making Of

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	For the first weekend of the festival, The Making Of will exist as live promenade performances within a film set, with the public encouraged to wander around and be 'extras'; for the remainder of the festival, the staged environment remains in place as an installation which will occasionally have performers. After the festival ends, the footage shot will be assembled into a new piece. Part of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. View full details
Tramway	20 Apr–6 May Tue–Fri 11am–6pm; Sat 10am–6pm; Sun noon–6pm	0845 330 3501 £5 returnable deposit for live performance; exhibition free

Matthew Darbyshire: T Rooms

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	An installation exploring design's role as a barometer of social change, and created in collaboration with Rupert Ackroyd, Jacob Farrell, Owen Hatherley and Scott King. View full details
Tramway	27 Jan–11 Mar Tue–Fri noon–5pm; Sat & Sun noon–6pm	Free

Only Your Pre Formance is Cult

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	Experimental theatre directed by Amanda Monfrooe exploring ideas of consciousness and critical awareness. View full details
Tramway	24 Feb 8.45pm Part of Arika12 Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness.	0845 330 3501 Day pass £6; festival pass £14

Redmond Entwistle: Walk-Through

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	A film installation inspired by the California Institute of the Arts, where the artist studied in the late 90s. Actors and former students perform a fictional re-enactment of the 'Post-Studio' classes developed by the Institute's influential teacher Michael Asher. Part of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. View full details
Tramway	20 Apr–7 May To be confirmed	Free

Rehearsal after Reflect Soft Matte Discourse

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	Malin Arnell, Clara Lopez and Imri Sandström re-enact and interrogate Gina Pane's landmark performance art piece, Discours mou et mat, exploring themes of alienation, abjection and the body. View full details
Tramway	25 Feb 7.30pm Part of Arika12 Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness.	0845 330 3501 Day pass £6; festival pass £14

Rhianna Turnbull

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	Work focusing on the artist's own experience and themes of lifestyle, attitude and identity. View full details
Tramway	9 Mar–8 Apr Tue–Fri noon–5pm; Sat & Sun noon–6pm	Free

Rhianna Turnbull

Location	Date	Tickets
	Work focusing on the artist's own experience and themes of lifestyle, attitude and identity. View full details
Tramway	9 Mar–8 Apr Tue–Fri noon–5pm; Sat & Sun noon–6pm	Free

Symposium on Emerging Practice

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	A weekend of cross-art form provocations, discussions and presentations organised by Vanishing Point and Collective, aimed at (and indeed featuring) Scotland's many emerging arts practitioners and organisations, with a particular focus on ways of supporting new talent in the arts world. View full details
Tramway	17 Feb 10am 18 Feb Sat 11am–1pm & noon–2pm 19 Feb Sun 3–4.30pm & 4.30–9pm	0845 330 3501 £5–£4

Tightrope

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	Inclusive dance companies Indepen-dance (Glasgow) and Amici Dance Theatre Company (London) collaborate on this touching story of an ageing circus company that seems to be on its last legs. View full details
Tramway	30 Mar–31 Mar Fri & Sat 7.30pm	0845 330 3501 £8 (£5)

Tramway Family Day: Impossible Bodies

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	Another day of innovative and exciting for parents and kids aged 0–12. The main event is a movement workshop based on Colette Sadler’s performance, We Are the Monsters, and there's also streamer making, puppet fun and interactive live animation. View full details
Tramway	11 Mar 11am	Free

The View from Nowhere – part 1

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	Philosphers Ray Brassier and Thomas Metzinger discuss (via video link) some challenging ideas about the nature of the self. View full details
Tramway	25 Feb 2.30pm Part of Arika12 Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness.	0845 330 3501 Day pass £6; festival pass £14

The View from Nowhere – part 2

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	Ray Brassier, Alexi Kukuljevic and Mark Fisher discuss the subjugation of individuality and creativity to social and business structures, and how 'neoliberal capitalism has locked down social experience'. View full details
Tramway	25 Feb 4.15pm Part of Arika12 Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness	0845 330 3501 Day pass £6; festival pass £14

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