Nick Cave: Until
Tue - Fri 12 - 5pm
Sat & Sun 12 - 6pm
CLOSED MONDAYS
Tramway presents the first exhibition in Europe of established contemporary artist and activist Nick Cave.
Until, organised by MASS MoCA, Massachusetts and co-produced with Carriageworks, Sydney and Crystal Bridges/The Momentary, Arkansas is Cave’s largest and most ambitious project to date. Cave who lives and works in Chicago is renowned for his Soundsuits, compelling and ornate figurative sculptures that can be worn and performed. An artist whose work has been driven by the social and personal impact of racism for close to three decades, Cave created his first Soundsuit as a form of both camouflage and symbolic body armour, an insulating layer of accumulated materials and meanings.
Cave’s meticulously crafted sculptures feature a sensorial array of found materials often found in craft, kitsch, or folk contexts, while the forms and materiality of the work references craft, kitsch, or folk, while the forms and materiality of the work also evoke the outfits and celebrations of Mardi Gras parades, drag performance, and shamanistic or ritual costumes. Cave has been gathering this material for years ranging from antique toys, ceramic birds, fruit and animals, buttons, festive decorations, pompoms, crochet blankets, gramophones and pony beads.
In Tramway's main gallery, Cave will exhibit a massive immersive installation made up of thousands of found objects which make viewers feel as if they have entered a rich sensory tapestry, akin to stepping directly inside the belly of one of his iconic Soundsuits. Though opulent and celebratory, the exhibition remains firmly connected to the political impetus behind Cave’s ongoing body of work. Until is a space where alluring kinetics and sumptuous materiality gives way to stark images, referencing complex issues of gun violence, racial profiling and gender politics that currently divide the United States of America, and the extension of these matters in communities around the world. As such, Until echoes the function of the Soundsuits, positioning the black body as simultaneously vulnerable and resolutely present.
Until will function as an alternative town hall, becoming a gathering space for community events, performance and discussion throughout the duration of the exhibition. ‘I view this work as an elaborate community forum, as much as a work of sculpture’ notes Cave.
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Until was organised by MASS MoCA, Massachusetts and co-produced with Carriageworks, Sydney and Crystal Bridges/The Momentary, Arkansas. Principle exhibition support was provided by an anonymous gift. Major exhibition support was provided by Jack Shainman Gallery and Beadcraft. Curated by Denise Markonish MASS MoCA and for Tramway by Claire Jackson.
Jonathan Baldock: Facecrime
Tue - Fri 12 - 5pm
Sat & Sun 12 - 6pm
CLOSED Mondays
Facecrime is the first solo exhibition in Scotland by Jonathan Baldock (b. 1980) who works across multiple platforms including sculpture, installation and performance. Baldock has an ongoing interest in the contrast between the material qualities of ceramic and fabric, drawing them together in his theatrical installations and sculptural assemblages.
Facecrime is comprised of a series of ceramic columns inspired by the discovery, in 1974, of more than a thousand perfectly preserved clay tablets, inscribed in cuneiform - an early writing system - ca. 2500 BC, in the ancient city of Ebia, Syria. This exhibition pays homage to these extraordinary artefacts, developing an alternative history of clay as a tool of communication and a carrier of language that defiantly stands the test of time.
Drawing from histories of labour, folklore and storytelling, Baldock experiments with glass, basketry and spinning to highlight the decline of traditional making and skills lost due to technology. In his recent works, Baldock uses these traditional techniques to depict contemporary forms of communication, creating classical-digital hybrids which draw early human script into dialogue with the emoji, the fastest growing language.
Borrowing its title from George Orwell's dystopian novel, 1984, the exhibition evokes an absurd and unsettling contemporary ruin that the audience wander amongst as though discovering the signs and visual languages of a once prosperous civilization.
Facecrime was commissioned by Camden Arts Centre through the Freelands Lomax Ceramics Fellowship and in partnership with Tramway. Jonathan Baldock is represented by Stephen Friedman Gallery, London.
Citizens Theatre presents The Duchess [of Malfi]
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A Citizens Theatre and Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh co-production
By John Webster
Adapted and directed by Zinnie Harris
Webster’s dark tale of bloody treachery is the most thrilling and chilling of the Jacobean revenge tragedies – an exploration of male rage and female resistance as two brothers try and control their sister, block her marriage and repress her agency with fatal results.
Reflecting contemporary debates about female empowerment and the abuse of male power, this bold new interpretation is written and directed by Zinnie Harris. Zinnie has garnered huge critical success for her previous adaptations of The Oresteia: This Restless House, (Citizens Theatre and National Theatre of Scotland) and her more recent versions of Ibsen’s The Master Builder (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, which sold out at the Edinburgh International Festival.
Recommended for ages 16+.
Contains strong language, violence and sexual content that some people may find upsetting.
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Previews: Wed 4 & Thu 5 September
Matinees: Sat 14 (2pm), Wed 18 (1.30pm) & Sat 21 September (2pm)
Access performances:
Fri 13 September 7.30pm (BSL Interpreted)
Sat 14 September 2pm (AD and CAP)
Shared Space
Sharing Space, Sharing Creativity, Sharing Ideas: An afternoon Scratch Event
A Moment's Peace and Küche present the second series of regular events seeking to raise the creative profile of anyone with lived experience of the immigration system.
An open and relaxed afternoon of multi-lingual and multi-disciplinary artistic work. Allies and would-be allies welcome. Join us or join in.
This is a pay what you decide event: no entry fee but contributions welcome!
ACCESS
This event will have BSL , Kurdish and Arabic Interpretation
Shared Space is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
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Image courtesy of Najma Abukar
Jason Byrne: Wrecked but Ready
Phil McIntyre Entertainments Ltd by arrangement with Lisa Thomas Management presents
Jason Byrne returns with his brand-new show, Wrecked But Ready. After 23 consecutive years Jason is wrecked but he is as ever ready (which is a battery, but he’s more Duracell than Eveready).
In particular the past year has been extremely testing for the wrecked Jason, but despite all this is he’s waiting to spill it out on stage. No one show is the same, expect all the usual spontaneous fun.
Come along and witness ‘the outright King of live comedy’ (The Times)
Ages 14+
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DIG: Rob Heaslip (UK/IRE) | ENDLING
Part of Dance International Glasgow
World Premiere
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An endling is an individual that is the last of its species. Once the endling dies, the species becomes extinct. ENDLING uses dance, vocals, music and design to reimagine tales of funerary and mourning rituals of Scottish and Irish Gaels, their chants, songs and customs; many on their own deathbeds and disappearing with each passing generation. Rob Heaslip collides popular and folk culture to create a tale of collective memory and consciousness in a world awash with acid pink, green and purple. Contemporary meets traditional, macabre meets joyful, and morbid fascination is welcomed in to the raucous world of a Gaelic wake.
Crìocharan - an neach mu dheireadh dhe a sheòrsa. Le a bhàs, thig bàs air an t-seòrsa sin. Tha ENDLING a’ cleachdadh dannsa, guth, ceòl agus ìomhaigheachd airson cruth ùr a chur air traidiseanan tìodhlachaidh agus caoinidh nan Gaidheal Albannach agus Èireannach, na traidiseanan sin fhèin air leabaidh a' bhàis le gach ginealach a dh’fhalbhas. Tha Rob Heaslip a’ tarraing an t-seann-nòis agus an nòis-ùir còmhla airson sgeulachd dhathach, dhealrach a tha a’ snìomh iongnadh mu bhàs còmhla ri othail an taigh-fhaire Ghàidhealaich.
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Funded by Creative Scotland, Bòrd na Gàidhlig, Culture Ireland and The Work Room
DIG: Alesandra Seutin/Vocab Dance (BELGIUM/UK) | GIANT
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Part of Dance International Glasgow
UK PREMIERE
*See this and Rob Heaslip: Endling on the same evening for just £22/£18 by booking a double bill ticket*
“As I walked on the city’s soil, encountered its people and walked through its genocide memorial. I as an outsider, a female, a Southern African, a Belgian felt it was necessary to not stay silent...'
GIANT is a unique and dynamic work, part dance, part installation. It combines movement, song, text, film and photography to relay an urban legend based on the realism of Rwanda’s turbulent history. Created by Alesandra Seutin, and inspired by her journey through the country, the work delivers a stark, scathing but emotional depiction of a nation in its time of crisis and reminds us that this is a story in which each of us consciously or subconsciously, plays a role and for which there are consequences.
Recommended ages 13+
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GIANT was made possible through a residency at BankArt 1929 as part of Kazuo Ohno Festival 2015 and Zinnema ‘I Have a Dream Exchange
DIG: Jonathan Baldock (UK) | The Gatekeepers
Part of Dance International Glasgow
Performed by Jonathan Baldock and Florence Peake with Chlöe Herington in Baldock's exhibition (T5 gallery)
To mark the closing of Baldock’s exhibition Facecrime, Tramway presents ‘The Gatekeepers’ – a new performance commission developed with Florence Peake, and Chlöe Herington taking place within the exhibition. The performance is a choreographic response to Baldock’s installation and builds upon themes central to the exhibition, placing an emphasis on medieval folklore and storytelling.
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'Facecrime' was commissioned by Camden Arts Centre through the Freelands Lomax Ceramics Fellowship and in partnership with Tramway’
DIG: Nora Invites Deborah Hay (UK) | Where Home Is
Part of Dance International Glasgow
Scottish Premiere
Tue 8 October, 7.30 - 8.30pm
Wed 9 October, 8.30 - 9.30pm
*See this and Colette Sadler's Temporary Store on Wednesday for just £22/£18 by booking a Double Bill ticket*
Stephanie McMann, Eleanor Sikorski and Flora Wellesley Wesley have been dancing together as Nora for over a decade, inviting choreographers to create new work for them to perform. Their latest invitation went to American choreographer Deborah Hay, who has been making exquisite, radical dances for over 50 years and was one of the founding members of Judson Dance Theatre. Together they have made Where Home Is, a trio for three dancers, performed with characteristic zeal, humour and love.
For the second part of the performance of Where Home Is Nora will host Playing Audience, an experiment devised by Hay and Nora that offers the audience the opportunity to see the stage through an entirely new lens.
‘…they are intellectually curious, funny and rude, possessed of chameleon stage talents and a taste for risk.’ The Guardian
‘It’s great to see these performers with their feisty, feminist agenda owning the stage, rather than decorating it.' London Dance
Recommended for ages 12+
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Commissioned by Sadler’s Wells. Co-commissioned by Dance East and Dance4. Supported by Independent Dance and through National Lottery funding from Arts Council England.
DIG: Colette Sadler (UK) I Temporary Store
Part of Dance international Glasgow
SCOTTISH PREMIERE
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DIG presents the Scottish premiere of this production as Sadler returns to Tramway for the first time since GEIST, which was part of DIG 2015.
Temporary Store searches for the choreographic interface between virtual and physical reality.
In a futuristic place of transit that could be anywhere between a pop-up store and a museum, post-human bodies act as vessels for an infinite loop of movement that seems familiar and alien at the same time. The bodies frequently speed up and slow down, robotically replaying life’s ‘best bits’ back and forth through the space.
There is nothing to buy in the Temporary Store (the trick is in the name) but there is a coin, ´the Obol’ - once laid on ancient Greek tongues to pay the ferryman on the river Styx. We once dreamt of finding the perfect lover, but now why embrace Eros when you can trump Thanatos?
Ages 16+
Choreography – Colette Sadler
Producers – Feral
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Temporary Store is funded by Creative Scotland and Senate Department for Culture and Europe Berlin. Developed in Co-production with Sophiensaele Berlin (Germany) and Bora Bora Aarhus (Denmark). Studio support from The Work Room (Glasgow).