Jamie Crewe - Defiling Rain

Part of Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art

INSTALLATION
Friday 12 June, 12pm - 5pm
Saturday 13 Jun, 12pm - 6pm

PERFORMANCE
Saturday 13 Jun, 7pm (Free but ticketed, booking information to follow)

Jamie Crewe’s Defiling Rain is a collection of short audio-visual vignettes which take the opinionated animals and personified weather of medieval fables and abandon them in a city struck by disaster. Each vignette is a song, with music performed by a small ensemble of musicians and a variety of vocalists, and lyrics describing fraught and fantastical scenarios. They are fables with the tails lopped off or the heads removed.

Using a diverse range of cinematic techniques including animation, puppetry, and collage, Jamie’s stories without morals are richly illustrated and screened in an endlessly randomised order. Authority has fled or been overturned, the materials of commentary and instruction are deranged, and with their remains Defiling Rain stages the awe, horror, and joy of disintegration.

For the debut of Defiling Rain at Tramway, the University of Edinburgh Art Collection and LUX Scotland will present a special two-day screening accompanied by a unique live performance featuring Jamie and a musical ensemble.

'Defiling Rain', 2026. Courtesy Of Jamie Crewe And The University Of Edinburgh Art Collection