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Tramway season brochure September – December 2017
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Contents
VisitingPages 1 - 2
Visual Arts listings Pages 2 - 4
Performance ListingsPages 5 - 9
Participation Highlights Pages 9 - 10
Visiting
Building Opening Hours
Mon – Sat 9:30am – 8pm
Sun 12 – 6pm
Exhibition Opening Hours
CLOSED Monday
Tue – Fri 12 – 5pm
Sat & Sun 12 – 6pm
Café Bar Opening Hours
Mon – Sat 9:30am – 4:30pm (kitchen closes 4pm)
Sunday 12 – 4pm (kitchen closes 3pm)
Christmas Opening Hours
Tramway will be closed from 23 December – 2 January inclusive. We will re-open as usual on Wed 3 January.
Ticketing
Tickets can be purchased online at tramway.org, by phone on 0845 330 3501, or in person at the venue. Ticket purchases are subject to a one-off transaction fee, online (£1) and by phone (£1.50)
Finding Us
Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow G41 2PE
We have excellent public transport links which we encourage visitors to use.
BUS Take the bus from the city centre to PollokshawsRoad/Albert Drive. Look for First Bus services 3, 45, 57, or Stagecoach service 4.
TRAIN Tramway is adjacent to Pollokshields East Train Station*, which is less than 10 minutes from GlasgowCentral Station.
*Please note, this station is not wheelchair accessible.
BIKE There is a bike hire station at Eglinton Toll, 5 minutes’ walk from Tramway. There is limited space to park your own bike in the venue (around 4 bikes at any one time).
Access
We are committed to ensuring Tramway is as accessible as possible. If you have any questions about visiting Tramway and your requirements, or about access to specific shows or exhibitions please contact us: | 0845 330 3501
Tramway is fully wheelchair accessible.
Visual Arts Listings
Stuart Middleton: Beat
2 September –22 October
Tue – Fri 12 – 5pm
Sat & Sun 12 – 6pm
Admission free
Stuart Middleton’s exhibition Beat explores various tensions between life and stock. Dead material is animated whilst structures that once contained bodies stand drained and useless. In Beat a stop-frame animation shows an undernourished dog prowls around in a white cell which suggests the white-washed austerity of vivisection laboratories, euthanasia clinics and art galleries. Large sculptures, recycled and adapted for the main gallery reference both modern industrial agriculture and historical site-specific artworks.
Beat was originally commissioned by the ICA, London and has been reconfigured for Tramway’s main gallery.
Luiz Roque: HEAVEN
2 September – 15 October
Tue – Fri 12 – 5pm
Sat & Sun 12 – 6pm
Admission free
Tramway presents the European premier of HEAVEN, a film work by Brazilian artist Luiz Roque.
Set 100 years after the discovery of AIDS, HEAVEN depicts a world gripped by a new viral epidemic and reflects on the stigmatizing rhetoric of anti-AIDS campaigns in the 1980s. With a cast comprised of transsexual actresses, it combines the nature of science fiction – as a device for airing a hypothesis – with the resources of cinematographic language to approach the common tensions of everyday life.
Amanda Ross-Ho
10 November – 20 December
Tue – Fri 12 – 5pm
Sat & Sun 12 – 6pm
Admission free
Amanda Ross-Ho’s sculptural work encompasses a diverse range of media. Industrially-produced objects are often copied using artisanal skills, scaled up, reproduced and repeated. This exhibition presents a new body of work inspired in part by Charlie Chaplin’s political comedy Modern Times, made in 1936 during the great global recession. The installation takes the form of a factory floor dedicated to the production of oversized garments. Ross-Ho’s surreal, theatrical environment collapses and inverts notions of time, labour and economy.
Commissioned by Bonner Kunstverein, Germany and Vleeshal, Middelburg.
MAP Commission 2017
Megan Rooney: Others got wings for Flying
Exhibition
28 October – 10 December
Tue – Fri 12 – 5pm
Sat & Sun 12 – 6pm
Admission free
Performance
7 December
6:30pm
£5/£3
Canadian artist Megan Rooney presents a new sculptural installation and performance at Tramway as part of a major new commission curated by Louise Briggs for MAP, an independent on and offline publisher and producer based in Glasgow. Megan Rooney’s work includes painting, performance, written and spoken word, sculpture and installation.
The commission and exhibition will conclude with a performance by Andrew Graham and Megan Rooney, a continuation of a performance previously presented by Rooney at Cove Park in September.
Exhibition co-commissioned and produced by Tramway
Artist’s Film Screening
Coco Fusco -Ethology: Primate Visions of the Human Mind
28 September
7:30pm
£5/£3
Coco Fusco is a Cuban-American artist and writer based in New York City. Here she utilizes TEDTalks, the popular web based live-streaming presentation and conference format, reviving and embodying the chimpanzee animal psychologist Dr. Zira from the original Planet of the Apes films to deliver an intelligent and satirical filmed performance work.
Lux Scotland: Artists’ Moving Image Festival
11 & 12 November
12 – 6pm
Day pass £6/£5
Festival pass £10/£8
Tramway’s annual Artists’ Moving Image Festival (AMIF), presented in partnership with LUX Scotland, returns for its sixth edition in November. Programmed by writer and lecturer Laura Guy and artist Cara Tolmie, and drawing on the diversity of film, video and performance practices from Scotland and beyond, it will include experimental and thematically bold programmes reconsidering the conventions and experience of the cinema space.
Artist’s Film Screening
NaeemMohaiemen :United Red Army (The Young Man Was, Part I)
21 November
7:30pm
£5/£3
NaeemMohaiemen combines photography, films and essays to research borders, wars, and belonging within postcolonial markers. Taking the events of the 1977 hijacking of Japan Airlines Flight 472 to Dhaka by the Japanese Red Army as a starting point, and covering six days of hostage negotiations, this film explores the artist’s own history, the role of archive footage within media representation, and political crisis.
Artist’s Film Screening
BasimMagdy
23 November
7:30pm
£5/£3
The recent work of Egyptian artist and filmmaker BasimMagdy, recipient of the Deutsche Bank ‘Artist of the Year’ award in 2016 is the subject of this screening featuring his 2014 film trilogy: The Everyday Ritual of Solitude Hatching Monkeys, The Many Colours of the Sky Radiate Forgetfulness and The Dent - alongside earlier short works.
Winter Printshop!
16 - 19 December
12 – 4pm
This winter, Tramway’s front gallery will be a hive of activity, with our special winter edition of the popular Printshop!
People of all ages are invited to explore printing over the four days, with the support of professional artists. Each day there will be a different printing technique to try your hand at, including screen printing and block printing. You can drop in and stay for as long as you like: any work you make will be hung on the gallery walls to dry, forming a constantly evolving colourful exhibition. Collect your work at the end of the session, or at the end of the last day: it’s up to you.
Taking part? Share your work on Instagram and Twitter @glasgowtramway #winterprintshop
Performance Listings
Project X
Project X – platforming dance within the African Diaspora in Scotland – presents a symposium and programme of performances, supported by Tramway, The Work Room, One Dance UK, Federation of Scottish Theatre and Creative Scotland:
Symposium - Let’s Move to More Visibility
Fri 22 September
9am – 5pm
£16 (independents) | £36 (organisations)
This one day symposium explores how dance and the performing arts sector in Scotland can develop to have a greater representation and support of practitioners who identify as People of Colour (POC) and/or Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic (BAME).
Scratch Night
Fri 22 September
7 – 8pm
£6
An evening of short performances of Project X Associate Artists who have come through its development programme.
Daksha Sheth Dance Company : Sari
29 & 30 September
7:30pm
£15/£11
India’s tradition of handwoven textiles, with its incredible range of colour, texture and design has, for millennia, been one the most visually striking elements of the Indian persona. This spectacular show rekindles the lost playfulness and individuality of the sari in an evening of live music, aerial choreography and circus skills.
“Astonishing artistry, suppleness and energy” - The Hindu
Part of India@UK2017 Year of Culture, visit indiaatuk2017.com
Aditi Mangaldas Dance Company: Inter-rupted
2021October
7:30pm
£15/£11
A high-octane fusion of the ancient art of Kathak with 21st-century sound, rhythm, and light, from maverick dance maker Aditi Mangaldas. She and six other dancers are joined on stage by a group ofmusicians for a startlingly rich piece that emerges from the depths of the body, exploring its fragility, disintegration and renewal.
“Wonderful excursions into the heart of rhythm, the energies of light, the ambience of space... and the power of stillness” - The Herald
Part of India@UK2017 Year of Culture, visit indiaatuk2017.com
Theo Clinkard :This Bright Field
13 & 14 October
7:15/7:30/7:45pm*
£15/£11
Theo Clinkard has built a reputation for creating affecting and visually arresting work. His latest, commissioned by Tramway, is presented in two parts.*
Part one provides audiences with an intimate on-stage encounter with Clinkard’s exceptional international dancers before part two takes to the full stage on a cinematic scale. Featuring striking lighting design, bold costumes and music performed live, This Bright Field gradually builds in momentum to become a spectacle of visual and emotional power.
“A poetic fusion of sight and sound” - The Guardian
* Please note the audience will be split into smaller groups for Part One, then reunited for Part Two. You will be designated with a start time when you book your ticket.
Project X in association with Various Dance Artists (V/DA): Grin
13 & 14 October
7pm
£11/£8
Grin is a spectacle of sound and visuals, undermining hierarchies of power.
Grin inverts the continued colonial narratives of black bodies and Caribbean dance styles being solely exotic and hyper-sexualised.
Grin is a celebratory performance, inviting you into the carnival.
New work from Mele Broomes following last year’s acclaimed performance, VOID.
“still a work-in-progress, but already the interaction between her dance and lighting – is utterly absorbing.” - Mary Brennan, The Herald
Share My Table: I Hear the Image Moving
Performance, 20 & 21 October
£8/£6
Exhibition, 19 – 29 October
Share My Table is a participatory multi-artform group led by Tramway and the Scottish Refugee Council. It has brought refugees and local Scots together for creative workshops exploring the media portrayal and public perceptions of refugees and asylum seekers. Join us for this premiere, the culmination of a unique project.
An accompanying exhibition is open daily in our Upper Foyer gallery from 12 – 5pm. Free admission.
People Dancing: Glasgow 2017 3 - 5 October
The international conference for anyone working in dance.
Three days of discussion, workshops, performance and networking for dance artists, teachers and leaders, produced by People Dancing in partnership with Tramway and Scottish Ballet.
Sonica 2017
Sonica presents Between Music: AquaSonic
26 – 28 October
7:30pm
£18/£9 (Tickets subject to an additional £1 booking fee)
Working with divers, scientists and instrument-makers, Denmark’s Between Music have developed compositions for five musicians submerged in vast tanks of water that glow in the darkened space. Performers sing beneath the surface with specially developed vocal techniques, and play custom-designed instruments to produce a spectacle that’s dreamlike, transporting and utterly original.
Ticket holders for 27 October are invited to join a post-show discussion with performer Robert Karlsson from 8:50pm.
Sonica presents Robbie Thomson: Infinite Lives
26 – 28 October
9pm
£12/£6 (Tickets subject to an additional £1 booking fee)
In Infinite Lives, Robbie Thomson performs a kind of live lab experiment, studying bacteria only visible under extreme magnification. Surrounded by weird and fantastical organisms and robotic devices, his experiments are transformed into projections, which react to a live electronic soundtrack.
Sonica presents Oliver Coates, Ragazze Quartet & Josh Armstrong: Shorelines
1 & 2 November
7:30pm
£15/£8(Tickets subject to an additional £1 booking fee)
When the North Sea flooded in 1953, it swept away lives and homes in the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK. Shorelines is a music-theatre work exploring the aftermath and effects of the disaster, as well as mankind’s increasingly vexed relationship with the natural world.
Sonica presents Lakker: Struggle & Emerge
2 November
9pm
£12/£6 (Tickets subject to an additional £1 booking fee)
Irish duo Lakker present a remarkable audiovisual performance inspired by the Dutch people’s relationship with water, sampling the soundtracks of documentaries in real time, and syncing footage to build propulsive electronic dance music.
Sonica presentsRobbie Thomson: XFRMR
1 November
9pm
£12/£6 (Tickets subject to an additional £1 booking fee)
In XFRMR, Robbie Thomson harnesses the sonic capabilities of the Tesla coil in a work as arresting as the scent of burning ozone and as lively as electricity itself.
“XFRMR bridges the technical, the spectacular, the popular and the arcane.” - Aesthetica
Sonica presentsJessica Curry & The Chinese Room: Dear Esther Live
3 November
7:30pm
£18/£9 (Tickets subject to an additional £1 booking fee)
Blurring the boundaries between video game, ghost story and film screening, Dear Esther Live invites the viewer to a virtual Hebridean island. A spoken-word narrative and live soundtrack by BAFTA winner Jessica Curry, respond differently to each individual playthrough of the game, meaning no two audiences will have the same experience.
Ticket holders for Dear Esther Live are invited to join a post-show discussion.
Sonica presentsTRIPLE BILL
Paul Jebanasam & Tarik Barri: Continuum
Martin Messier: Field
Alex Augier: _nybble_
4 November
7:30pm
£18/£9 (Tickets subject to an additional £1 booking fee)
A thrilling, galactic-scale journey through the work of experimental electronic musician Paul Jebanasam’s 2016 album Continuum, with Tarik Barri’s metamorphosing visuals; Martin Messier’s sonic responses to the real-time flux of electromagnetic forces and Alex Augier’s immersive soundscape of skittering beats and layers of light.
Sonica presentsNicola L.Hein& Lukas Truniger: Membranes
3 November
9pm
£12/£6 (Tickets subject to an additional £1 booking fee)
Exploring the boundaries where music and language overlap, Hein and Truniger use hybrid instruments – constructed from drum-skins and electronic components – as devices to turn written texts into pulses of light and percussive sound.
An installation of Membranes will also be shown in Tramway 4 from 12 noon – 10pm on 4 November.
ArikaEpisode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
with Samuel R Delany
16 - 19 Nov
(Various times)
Pay what you can
The politics of sexuality, fantasy and speculation – explored over 4 days of performances, screenings, discussions and readings. Involving Militant Fantasy, Science Fiction, Pornography, Prefiguration, Memoir, Fan Fiction, Mutant Dance, Empathy, Chemical Narratives and Haunted Noise.
With Bent Bars, Samuel R Delany, HuwLemmey, Moor Mother, Storyboard P, Nat Raha, SWARM, Jackie Wang, WestGAP and more…
Full details at arika.org.uk
ACCESS to Arika Episode 9
Most events will be accompanied by BSL and/or speech or text reporting.
If there is anything we can do to make it easier for you to come along, Arika will try to help.
Contact / 0131 556 0878
Scottish Ensemble & Vanishing Point: Tabula Rasa
22 - 24 November
7:30pm
Standard ticket £18
Wheelchair user + companion £18
Concessions £10
U-16s £5
(Tickets subject to an additional £1 booking fee)
A haunting, poetic production about human resilience, set to the music of ArvoPärt.
Two of Scotland’s foremost performing groups – theatre company Vanishing Point and string orchestra Scottish Ensemble – present a co-production that sets ArvoPärt’s spiritual and mesmeric Tabula Rasa in a theatrical context, exploring the recognised role of the piece in the care of patients during their final days.
Pärt classics Fratres and Spiegel Im Spiegel also feature in this life-affirming, visionary production about care, humanity, suffering and the uplifting power of art.
More at Tramway
Visit tramway.org for full details
FilmG: DeichBliadhna 7 September, 6:30pm
Celebrating 10 years of the Gaelic Film Competition with a poster display, music and refreshments.
Scottish Ensemble: Silver Screen Sounds, 15 September, 7:30pm
A showcase of music from films which celebrates the power of sound.
Simon Amstell :What Is This? 5 October, 8pm
Tramway hosts the Glasgow date on the comedian’s UK tour.
Participation Highlights
Visit tramway.org/takepart for full information about ALL our classes, tours and special events. Look out for our Take Part at Tramway brochure.
Doors Open Days
Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 September, FREE
We join this huge national event with backstage tours, creative activities and the chance for you to share your Tramway memories with us.
Tramway Local
Thursday 28 September, 6 – 7:30pm, FREE
Join our regular networking event to hear about arts and community projects happening in the local area, with food and the chance to meet other artists and local organisations.
Free but please book your place – visit tramway.org
Tramway Family Day
Sunday 24 September, 12 – 4:30pm, FREE
Come along for a buzzing programme of creative activities especially suited to ages 0-12 and their adults. You’ll find surprises around every corner!
NEW : Tramweans
Mondays 20 November – 18 December
£15 for full block/£4 per session
Try our brand new activity sessions for ages 3-5 and their grown-ups, the perfect mix of feel-good-fun and creative expression for little ones!
Visit tramway.org to find out more and book your place.
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