OFFERING 3: ahma's mask (life~death~life)

Gallery performances as part of Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art ( 5- 21 June 2026).

During Gi, Tramway's main gallery exhibition •~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~•  by Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 will host a live operatic performance - a cycle of decomposition and regeneration, unfolding across the course of the festival. Performers, musicians, and vocalists will take up Rae-Yen’s sculptural and textile works as instruments and costumes, telling the exhibition’s life~death~life story as a musical communion of humans, spirits, and other species.

Performances will take place in the gallery. They will be free and unticketed.

Performance times 

Friday 5 June 8pm (during preview)
Saturday 6 June 4pm
Sunday 7 June 3pm

Saturday 20 June 3pm
Sunday 21 June 3pm 

Young children should be supervised by a parent or guardian. 

Tramway and its galleries are wheelchair accessible. Read more information about the building on our Access page.  

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More about the exhibition

For •~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~•, Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 has transformed the vast Tramway gallery into a spectral abyss. Rae-Yen's practice is an ever-evolving exercise in worlding, informed by ancestral mythologies, Daoism, family ritual, more-than-human politics, and science fact-fiction. The exhibition envelops visitors in an eternal night: an entangled ecology of microscopic life, ancestral energy, and environmental flux.

A sprawling creature occupies the gallery, which Rae-Yen sees as an embodiment of tua mak 大眼 – a relative known only through family myth, who drowned at sea in 1950s Singapore. Rae-Yen imagines the watery decomposition of tua mak’s body and its consumption by innumerable others, conjuring tua mak as a dispersed life-system, cycling eternally through continuous change and perpetual migration.

Exhibition opening times 
•~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~• will be open daily during Glasgow International: 

Friday 5 June, 10am - 5pm, and 7pm – 9.30pm (Preview)
Saturday 6 June, 11am - 6pm
Sunday 7 June, 11am - 5pm

Monday 8 - Sunday 21 June, 12pm - 5pm
(+Open till 6pm on Saturday 13 and Saturday 20 June) 

From 22 June, after the festival, the exhibition will revert to standard opening times (Wed-Sun). 
•~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~• continues until 16 August.
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•~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~• is a co-commission by Tramway, FACT Liverpool, FVU, and Advanced Research Centre at the University of Glasgow; and supported by Thinking Culture, a cultural programme from the University of Glasgow’s School of Culture & Creative Arts.

Funders - Creative Scotland, Arts Council England, and The Henry Moore Foundation.

Image: •~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~• (Tramway, 2025/26). Installation photo - Keith Hunter