Tramway TV: Project X presents Ghost Dimensions - A Call and Response
This series, created for Tramway TV, starts with a film presented by Project X, and is followed by four films created in response by invited dance artists.
The five films are now available on our Instagram IGTV channel.
The Call
Ghost Dimensions explores themes of identities, imposing architecture and the environments we move in. Our bodies hold histories, harbour memory, inherit trauma. Our surroundings do too. As we move through life surrounded by collective memory, some see it, some choose not to. Experimenting with visibility, Ghost Dimensions asks: Who is seen? How are they seen? Through what lens? On what platform?
Originally created by Mele Broomes and Ashanti Harris of Project X with sound by Andrei van Wyk aka Healer Oran, and visuals by Tseliso Monaheng.
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The Response
Project X have invited four artists to create dance responses to the themes of Ghost Dimensions. Their videos are freely available to watch now. Follow the links below to view each response:
KJ Clarke-Davis >
Loretta Crinall >
Marios Ento- Engkolo >
Kemono L. Riot >
Duration
All films are between 1 min 30 - 5 minutes long
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About Project X
Project X is a multi-disciplinary organisation based in Scotland, platforming dance of the African and Caribbean Diaspora. They collaborate with artists and organisations to deliver bespoke workshops, facilitate conversations, and produce and curate performances and events in Scotland and beyond. For more info, please visit their website>
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Tramway TV is the online platform for our arts programme, featuring a combination of film, artist conversations, digital performances and online interventions from visual artists and performance makers across Scotland and beyond.
Tramway TV can be accessed on IGTV via our Instagram page.
Tramway TV: Jasleen Kaur - Ethnoresidue
Ethnoresidue is a new video work made for Tramway TV that weaves textual and visual threads around an existing conversation with Kaur’s maternal grandmother which formed part of her book, Be Like Teflon, published in 2019.
Grounding itself in Pollokshields, Glasgow - a place of family, the city's South Asian community, and Tramway - Kaur expands on the complexities and intimacies of identity, belonging and reckoning with histories, and their entanglement in colonial structures that persist.
ACCESS
Ethnoresidue is captioned
Duration - 19 minutes
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About the artist
Jasleen Kaur (b.1986, Glasgow, Scotland) is based in London. Her work is an ongoing exploration into the malleability of culture and the layering of social histories within the material and immaterial things that surround us. Her practice examines diasporic identity and hierarchies of history, both colonial and personal. She works with sculpture, video, sound and writing.
Recent and upcoming commissions include projects for the Wellcome Collection, UP Projects, Glasgow Women’s Library, Market Gallery, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Eastside Projects and Hollybush Gardens. Her work is part of the permanent collection of Touchstones Rochdale, Royal College of Art and Crafts Council.
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Tramway TV is the online platform for our arts programme, featuring a combination of film, artist conversations, digital performances and online interventions from visual artists and performance makers across Scotland and beyond.
Tramway TV can be accessed on IGTV via our Instagram page.
Rabiya Choudhry: Big Broon Stressed Oot Eyes
A street-facing mural on display at Tramway
Rabiya Choudhry creates works that explore the complicated coupling of eastern and western cultures in richly vibrant portrayals of the different autobiographical factors in her life. Her influences are drawn from a diverse hybrid of styles, ranging from psychedelic art, comic book art, album cover art, song lyrics, voodoo and folk art, b-movie film posters and cartoons.
Choudhry often uses dark humour in her work as a powerful tool through which to address topics which are complex and difficult to talk about such as depression, anxiety, love and loss. She describes her works as ‘joyous, demented expressions of these themes, mirroring the worlds we experience both outside and within.’
For her new commission for Tramway's facade Choudhry, who grew up in Glasgow’s south side, has created a mural in response to our current collective moment. With characteristic Glaswegian humour Choudhry has created a playful image of two large eyes which peer anxiously from Tramway's two front gallery windows.
Tramway has commissioned this street-facing work, in advance of our reopening, as part of a programme of work which aims to bring art to our audiences and into the public realm whilst we are temporarily unable to welcome you into our spaces.
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Tramway is currently CLOSED to the public. This artwork can be viewed from Albert Drive, outside the front gallery, from 10am-4pm daily.
Read more about plans for our phased reopening here>
Raman Mundair: choreographies of resist///dance
choreographies of resist///dance is a new film work made for
Tramway TV that meditates on rituals for resistance for women of colour during
troubled times.
It incorporates healing and uplifting practices and presents
them as poetic strategies for self defence: Dance, breath-work, music, song,
and dialogue with other women of colour and moments with nature all become
radical acts of self-care and self-love.
Mundair uses the traditionally Punjabi female folk dance of
Giddha and female group singing of Boliyaan as a rallying call for resistance.
For a call to literal, spiritual, emotional and psychological movement – a
physicality that embodies resist///dance.
This film work is presented as a triptych of three films
Duration of each film is between 3 -10 minutes long
Audio consists of experimental electronic music using voice and instrumentation and composed by the artist
About the Artist
Raman Mundair is an Indian born, writer, director/filmmaker,
artist, poet and playwright. She identifies as a Queer, disabled, British Asian
intersectional feminist and is an activist based in Shetland and Glasgow. She
is the award winning author of Lovers, Liars, Conjurers and Thieves, A
Choreographer’s Cartography, The Algebra of Freedom and is the editor of
Incoming: Some Shetland Voices. Her short film Trowie Buckie was shortlisted
for Sharp Shorts 2020.
For more information see:
Ramin Mundair's Instabio>
Ramin Mundair's website>
Jason Byrne: Audience Precipitation
He’s back for more comedy chaos! Jason has learnt over the past few years that we all need to “play” a bit more in our lives.
With this in mind, Jason will do what he does best, connecting with the audience in a way no other comic can. Whether it’s inviting or dragging (as it has been known) people up onto stage and making a “holy show of them” as they say in Ireland.
Jason’s Audience Precipitation, will be a laugh out loud, must see show, with a light drizzle of audience participation… ooohhh clever that.
TV Credits
Also seen on Live at the Apollo (BBC1), The Royal Variety Performance (ITV1), The John Bishop Show (BBC1), and Father Figure (BBC1) Ireland’s Got Talent (Virgin), Wild Things (Sky1)
Recommended for ages 14+
“Unmissable” - Evening Standard
“Watching a new Jason Byrne show is a bit like witnessing lightning in a botttle” – Edinburgh Evening News
“Byrne is consistently brilliant” – The Metro
“The outright king of live comedy” - The Times
UNCLES: One for the Road
*SOLD OUT*
Please note, these events are rescheduled from their original dates as follows:
From Fri 13 Mar 2020 to Fri 5 Feb 2021
From Sat 14 Mar 2020 to Sat 6 Feb 2021
From Sun 15 Mar 2020 to Sun 7 Feb 2021
Tickets remain valid for the new date and are otherwise unchanged. If the new date does not suit, we will be able to possibly offer a transfer to an alternative date (subject to availability) or refunds once we are re-opened for business as normal.
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Your Uncles, Rab Florence and Iain Connell, Burnistoun, are back for another round of drinks and another round of hilarious comedy as they set the world to rights.
Ages 18+