Up Next Apr––Aug 2018
Tramway’s listings for spring/summer 2018
Contents
Visiting Pg2
Visual Arts Listings Pg 3 - 5
Performance Listings Pg 5 - 8
Take Part highlightsPg 8
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)
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 Pollokshaws Road/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 Glasgow Central 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
KapwaniKiwanga: Soft Measures
20 April – 17 June
Mon 12 – 5pm (until 7 May only)
Tue – Fri 12 – 5pm
Sat & Sun 12 – 6pm
Admission Free
The continent of Europe is moving towards Africa at the rate of approximately 2cm per year – eventually it will slide underneath entirely. Paris-based Canadian artist KapwaniKiwanga takes this fact as a starting point for a new multi-faceted installation at Tramway. Through new sculptural works Kiwanga suggests speculative fictions that stretch through a perspective of deep geological time.
Commissioned by Glasgow International.Supported by Canada House, InstitutFrançais’ Fluxus Programme, Fyfe Glenrock and the Henry Moore Foundation.
Mark Leckey
20 April – 1 July
Mon 12 – 5pm (until 7 May only)
Tue – Fri 12 – 5pm
Sat & Sun 12 – 6pm
Admission Free
For his solo exhibition at Tramway, Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Leckey has taken inspiration from a small statuette from the Wellcome Collection which was originally thought to depict a syphilitic male, but was later said to be a representation of the biblical figure Job. In Tramway’s main gallery, Leckey reconfigures this statuette to human proportions creating a relatable, abject figure who occupies Tramway’s vast gallery.
In Leckey’s sci-fi version of the figure his body becomes expanded and infiltrated by technology. The man’s open wounds and body cavity are hollowed out and filled with speaker systems that give voice to his wounds. The process of digitally replicating the statue is in itself referenced and used as material; the 3D scan of the original has been unfurled to create a ‘digital skin’, which is depicted flayed and flattened, and hangs in the space like a grotesque figure painting. Opposite Job a large ‘mirror’ video work reflects the figure and digitally re-animates his body, creating a dialogue between the statue and its virtual avatar. ‘Part Dalek, part Abandoned House, Job’s body is now merely a Thing amongst Things – the Spirit has departed the Flesh.’
This exhibition is co-curated and co-commissioned by Glasgow International and Tramway. It has been made possible due to the generous support of the Wellcome Collection, London, and the Henry Moore Foundation.
Tai Shani
Dark Continent: SEMIRAMIS
Fri 20 April – Mon 7 May
Mon – Fri 12 – 5pm
Sat & Sun 12 – 6pm
Admission Free
Tai Shani creates a large-scale immersive installation that also functions as a site for performance. The work is an experimental adaptation of Christine de Pizan’s 1405 proto-feminist text The Book of the City of Ladies.
Twelve performers create a twelve-part performance depicting an allegorical city of women, imagining an alternative history which privileges sensation, experience and interiority, simultaneously proposing a post-patriarchal future.
The performances will take place on the opening three days of the festival, with the sequences filmed and the documentation subsequently presented alongside the installation.
Co-commissioned by Glasgow International and The Tetley, Leeds; with support from Arts Council England and the Henry Moore Foundation.
Jamie Crewe: Rustic Prologue
4 August, 7:30pm, £5/£3 (Film)
An evening of animation, film, and reading programmed by Glasgow-based artist Jamie Crewe. This event provides a chance to engage with an eclectic body of works that have informed Pastoral Drama, Crewe’s new moving image commission for Tramway and KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin, which will form the basis of a solo show at Tramway in September.
Rustic Prologue introduces this work with a wide range of inspirational material, featuring journeys, returns, violent changes, rurality, and queer disenfranchisement, united by an interest in experimental animation.
Pastoral Drama is a co-commission with the KW Production Series, and a collaboration with the Julia Stoschek Collection and OUTSET Germany_Switzerland. This screening is supported by Festival 2018.
Children's Exhibition
7 July – 26 August
Mon – Fri 12 – 5pm
Sat & Sun 12 – 6pm
Admission Free
An exhibition of bold, playful and engaging artwork that will introduce children to ideas and materials commonly used in contemporary art, through tactile experience, digital interaction, and movable shapes and forms.
The exhibition features a number of commissions by artists and designers, and will be accompanied by a series of events with various different opportunities to access and engage in the exhibition space and ideas around the making of contemporary art.
Supported by Festival 2018, the cultural festival accompanying the Glasgow 2018 European Championships.
Samara Scott
4 August – 28 October
Tue – Fri 12 – 5pm
Sat & Sun 12 – 6pm
Admission Free
Samara Scott will create a large site specific installation in response to Tramway’s main gallery inspired by its architecture and similarity to open air spaces such as the arcade, market or street. Scott’s work is often improvised in situ, using fluid and supple materials that allow her to work at a certain tempo. Body gel, glitter, toilet paper, sponges, milk, nail varnish and food dyes are just some of the many substances that make up her alchemic and sumptuous forms.
At Tramway Scott literally suspends the miscellaneous accumulations of everyday life to create a series of translucent, putrid, and seductive sculptures.
Christian Noelle Charles: CC Time
Performance - 1 June, 7pm (20 mins)
Exhibition - 2 & 3 June, 12 – 6pm
Free admission
In a new commission for Tramway and Take Me Somewhere, artist Christian Noelle Charles has taken inspiration from pop culture, modern performance techniques and personal experience to create a new performance work.
Exploring female representation, individuality and self-love in a contemporary world, Noelle Charles’ performance is presented alongside a short exhibition of her beautiful and expressive film work.
Performance Listings
FK Alexander: VIOLENCE
16 & 19 May, 9:30pm, £12/£8
Ticket offer – book this show and FlorentinaHolzinger / CAMPO: Apollon or Dead Centre: Hamnet on the same night, and pay just £20/£14 for both shows. (These shows’ details are listed below)
FK Alexander’s new performance art piece VIOLENCE is a personal anti-love tribute to crushed hope and renewed desire – using text, live percussion, non-dance and flowers. A meditation on the cruelty of love,the weight of loneliness, the gift ofdesperation, the freedom of anxiety,the chrysalis of hopelessness… and thepower of dreams.
A new commission presented by Take Me Somewhere, Outspoken Arts and The Marlborough Theatre.
Recommended for ages 14+
FlorentinaHolzinger / CAMPO: Apollon
16 May, 7:30pm, £15/£10
Ticket offer – book this show and FK Alexander: VIOLENCE (above) on the same night, and pay just £20/£14 for both shows.
Five women tackle the neo-liberalist cult of the body in FlorentinaHolzinger’s humorous and furious destruction of George Balanchine’s Apollon, which centres around Apollo, the Greek god of art. In pointe shoes and with Olympic weights on their shoulders, they throw this poster boy off his throne with smiles on their faces.
Access: Apollon is BSL Interpreted
Recommended for ages 18+ (Contains strong sexual content and bloodletting.)
Dead Centre: Hamnet
19 May, 8pm, £15/£10
Ticket offer – book this show and FK Alexander: VIOLENCE (above) on the same night, and pay just £20/£14 for both shows.
Hamnet is a solo work for an eleven-year-old boy, which stormed the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2017.
Shakespeare had one son, who he named Hamnet, before leaving home to pursue his theatrical career. In 1596, he was told that the boy was seriously ill. By the time Shakespeare reached Stratford, Hamnet had died.
In 1599, Shakespeare wrote a play called Hamlet.
Access: Hamnet is BSL Interpreted by Amy Cheskin.
Recommended for ages 12+
Bassline Circus and SUE ZUKI: LIQUID SKY
in association with Feral
26 May 2:30pm/ 27 May 7:30pm, £12/£8
Presented by Take Me Somewhere and Tramway
‘Up, up, up from this flat land,
Into the high land
That is our way...’ (Doris Lessing)
A new piece of visual theatre exploring the interface between sonic art and aerial circus within a laser light scenography.Featuring Bassline Circus’ seminal Laser Rope performance and a dark wave live music set by SUE ZUKI.
Access: Subpacs available
Recommended for ages 10+
Quote Unquote Collective in association with Why Not Theatre: MOUTHPIECE
30 & 31 May, 7:30pm, £15/£10
Presented by Take Me Somewhere and Tramway
MOUTHPIECE follows one woman, in the wake of her mother’s death, for one day, as she tries to find her voice. Interweaving a cappella harmony, text and physicality, two performers express the inner conflict that exists within one modern woman’s head.
A heart-wrenching, humorous journey into the female psyche, MOUTHPIECE triumphed at Edinburgh Fringe 2017.
“Truly astounding stuff…” ***** (Critics Pick Edinburgh 2017, The Stage)
Created and performed by Amy Nostbakken & Norah Sadava.
Recommended for ages 14+
Last Yearz Interesting Negro: i ride in colour and soft focus, no longer anywhere
1 June, 7:30pm, £14/£10
Presented by Take Me Somewhere and Tramway
Last Yearz Interesting Negro is the solo project of Jamila Johnson-Small, who makes work with ‘in-between spaces’ - things that exist within cracks in time/memory/attention. In i ride in colour and soft focus, no longer anywhere, the dance is informed by everything and everyone Johnson-Small has ever encountered, seen, heard, felt or been beside that has become part of them, as they try to identify their own voice.
Commissioned by Fierce Festival and The Marlborough Pub and Theatre, supported with public funding from Arts Council England Grants for the Arts.
Access: BSL Interpreted
Join us at 7pm to see Christian Noelle Charles perform CC Time before this show. More information in our Visual Arts listings.
Ballet Black: The Suit / A Dream Within a Midsummer Night’s Dream
8 & 9 June, 7:30pm, £12/£8
‘joyously unpredictable’ (The Guardian)
This is a welcome return to Tramway for CassaPancho’s Ballet Black, which celebrates dancers of black and Asian descent. In this double bill, renowned British choreographer Cathy Marston choreographs a new ballet based on Can Themba’s moving fable The Suit. Completing the evening is Arthur Pita’s Olivier-nominated A Dream Within a Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Recommended for ages 12+
The Suit includes content which younger audiences might find upsetting. Please contact us if you’d like more information.
Rosanna Irvine: Breath Pieces
23 June, 7:30pm, £12/£8
Breath Pieces is a new hybrid art work. Part performance, part installation, it comprises multiple components intermingling in an immersive experience of the breathing breath. It includes performance, sound, video, drawing and spoken text.
Breath and Drawing Workshop, 19 June, 10:30am, £5/£3
Join Rosanna Irvine to experiment with the durational drawing style used in the creation of Breath Pieces.Full information on our website.
Breath Pieces is a Tramway commission.
YDance: Project Y
25 July, 7:30pm, £7/£5
Group offer – buy 10 tickets, get the 11th FREE
A collection of four new and exhilarating contemporary dance works, created by top choreographers, and performed by some of the UK’s best young contemporary dancers.
The annual Project Y tour showcases the breath-taking talent of some of the UK’s best young contemporary dancers aged 16 to 21 upon completion of the Project Y Performance Course.
“Exceptional talent” (One Dance UK on Project Y 2017)
Junction 25 and Theater an der Parkaue: 1,210km
10 & 11 August, 7:30pm, £12.50/£9
1,210km is an explosive new show that will inspire, question and provoke. Award winning young performance companies from Berlin and Glasgow explore ideas of cross-cultural identity, connection and belonging as they ask the question: ‘what is the space between us?’
Junction 25 is co-produced by Glas(s) Performance and Tramway, and 1,210km is supported by Festival 2018 and The Goethe-Institut.
Take Part Highlights
Visit tramway.org/takepart for full information about these events and more
A Family Weekend (28 & 29 April), bursting with free creative activities, and our brand new Philosophy Club for ages 9-12 (meeting 23 & 30 May), are both inspired by Glasgow International 2018; and during our Children’s Exhibition, the Tramway Talk is Making Gallery Work for Young Audiences (23 August). Our regular classes also continue, including Junction 25, our youth drama group; movement for years 3-5 with Tramweans; and our visual art groups: Net Effect, for ages 16-25 and Time for Art (ages 55+).
Net Effect: Celebrate ART, 7 July
Join us for a large-scale installation and performance event from our visual art group for ages 16-25, featuring projection, sound, storytelling, printmaking and sculpture. Their exhibition can be seen until 26 August.
Part of Year of Young People 2018 supported by Event Scotland and Creative Scotland.
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