OFFERING 3: ahma's mask (life~death~life)
•~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~• exhibition performances as part of Glasgow International
Gallery performances as part of Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art ( 5- 21 June 2026).
For Gi, Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 presents ahma’s mask (life∼death∼life) – a performance cycle featuring musicians Hatis Noit and Flora Yin Wong, choreographers Aya Kobayashi and Aniela Piasecka, and other collaborators – newly commissioned by Tramway. This takes place within Song’s solo exhibition •~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~• in our main gallery.
Unfolding over two weekends, the performances will follow a cyclical logic of decomposition and regeneration. The first cycle, for the festival’s opening weekend, brings together a new vocal performance by Hatis Noit and movement by Aya Kobayashi. The second cycle, for the closing weekend, will combine experimental music by Flora Yin Wong, with choreography by Aniela Piasecka. These performances will become intertwined with the architecture of the exhibition, animating sculptural elements, instruments and costumes crafted by Song.
Performances are 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.
Credits
Director, Concept, Costume design: Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊
Guidance: Song family pond
Production: Michael Barr
𝘾𝙮𝙘𝙡𝙚 1
Vocalist: Hatis Noit
Choreographer + dancer: Aya Kobayashi
Live instrumentation: Song family pond
Clouds: Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊, Michael Barr
𝘾𝙮𝙘𝙡𝙚 2
Soundscape: Flora Yin Wong
Choreographer + dancer: Aniela Piasecka
Dancers: Aya Kobayashi, Kirstin Halliday
Clouds: Galen Song 宋泰然, Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊
Costume assistance: Holly Smith, Taylor Wilson Scott, Rae Halliday, Anna Gradetchlieva,
Michael Barr
Curation: Claire Jackson
Lighting: Paul Sorley
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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, 11am - 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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****Please note •~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~• will be CLOSED Wednesday 3 and Thursday 4 June****
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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