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.
DIG presents Katie Armstrong: Sketches
Please note these films will be screened during gallery hours as standard, but will also be screened before evening performances Tuesday - Saturday
SKETCHES is a series of short intellectually and geographically accessible vignettes set to and inspired by Bach's Violin Concerto in A Minor. The works have been redeveloped into three short films for Dance International Glasgow 2019 through support from Tramway and The Work Room: Moving Out Programme. Each vignette has been redeveloped and filmed in a site specific location, recognisable to anyone who lives in the Southside of Glasgow.
For this project, Katie has collaborated with film artist Stuart Breadner, and dance artists - Millie Thomas, Lucy Ireland, Olivia Roach and Katie Miller.
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A co-commission from Tramway and The Work Room, Moving Out is a new initiative supporting artists to expand their practice through adapting work for public sites and outdoor contexts. MORE>
Trajal Harrel Performance Lecture: Maybe To Spectacle
IMPORTANT NOTICE - this event has had to be cancelled due to circumstances outwith our control. We are very sorry for the inconvenience caused. Ticket holders should contact CCA for refunds.
NB - The performances here at Tramway on Fri 18/19 Oct WILL go ahead as planned.
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Part of Dance International Glasgow (DIG Engage)
This event takes place at CCA. Book through CCA>
Trajal Harrell came to contemporary dance world fame with the Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church series of works which theoretically juxtaposed the voguing dance tradition with the early postmodern dance tradition. He is now considered one of the most important choreographers of his generation.
Trajal Harrell, who comes to DIG 19 with the UK premiere of Dancer of the Year, will conduct a lecture seminar that is part lecture and part conversation. Using video and photographs, Harrell will map the trajectory of his aesthetic history beginning with his work on voguing and early postmodern dance and moving on to his more recent work with butoh and modern dance. Short sections of some of the dances will be viewed. The lecture seminar transforms freely between looking, listening, and talking as interests and questions arise from being in the room together.
DIG: Robbie Synge (SCT) and Lucy Boyes | Ensemble
Part of Dance International Glasgow
Ensemble takes place at CCA. Tickets available from their website>
Ensemble is a joyous expression of togetherness involving five performers in their 30s-70s.
Join the group on a journey that lays bare their strengths, efforts and possibilities together for an uplifting and surprising piece that challenges expectations of age in performance.
The result of the group’s work over a six-year period, Ensemble has built a friendship and understanding which is reflected in tightly coordinated choreography, daring acrobatics and precarious balances.
‘a quietly radical space where bodies come together to transmit joy, lightness and an authenticity that is infectious and demonstrates how different bodies can tell a different story.’
(Ian Abbott at Dublin Dance Festival 2019)
ACCESS: This is an Audio Described performance with a Touch Tour
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Created in association with Dance Base and Eden Court with support of Lyth Arts Centre and Yorkshire Dance. Robbie Synge and Lucy Boyes are Aerowaves Twenty19 artists with Ensemble.
James Batchelor workshop
Part of Dance International Glasgow (DIG Engage)
Booking through The Work Room/Eventbrite>
Ticket includes a performance ticket for James Batchelor’s HYPERSPACE on Friday 18 October.
This workshop, led by Australian Choreographer James Batchelor, will experiment with how the body can map space. Since his involvement on an expedition to sub-Antarctic Heard and McDonald Islands in 2016, James has been questioning how the body senses, measures and maps the unknown. This was the experience that led to the development of the performances HYPERSPACE and DEEPSPACE by James Batchelor and Collaborators, both presented in Glasgow for DIG 19.
The workshop will introduce participants to James Batchelor’s approach to movement through a series of open-ended scores for improvisation from the performance. This will be supported by discussions, reading, writing and drawing. The focus will be on sharing creative tools and discovering the potential within the micro-world of the body.
DIG: James Batchelor and Collaborators (AUSTRALIA) | HYPERSPACE
Part of Dance International Glasgow
UK PREMIERE
From the human body to the cosmos, HYPERSPACE is an inquiry into the metrics we use to measure the deep unknowns of the universe. It proposes a study of the human body seen through the prism of cosmology, a mapping of the universe within and around it. The interior and exterior landscapes of the body are deconstructed, producing a self-critique of the masculine body and its dominance in space exploration. In HYPERSPACE, the fleshy material of the body bends, stretches and is reconfigured as alien transmutation, appearing simultaneously colossal and microscopic.
HYPERSPACE is the third in a series of works from James Batchelor and his collaborators that grew from a unique opportunity to be part of a scientific expedition to study sub-Antarctic islands in 2016.
ACCESS: This production is good for Subpacs
Audio Described by by Bek Berger + Touch Tour (both FRIDAY ONLY)
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DEEPSPACE, from the same series, will also be presented at DIG, as an off-site performance on Saturday 19 October.
See both shows on the Saturday for just £22/£18 by booking a Double Bill ticket>
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Hyperspace has been supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body .Hyperspace was developed with partners Centro per la Scena Contemporanea (Bassano del Grappa), Dance 4 (Nottingham), Canberra Theatre Center and Dancehouse (Melbourne). Supported by the Australian Cultural Fund, The Besen Family Foundation, The Keir Foundation and Michael Adena and Joanne Daly.
DIG: Trajal Harrell (US)| Dancer of the Year
Part of Dance International Glasgow
UK premiere
“It’s one thing to be named Dancer of the Year, it’s something entirely different to try and make something of it.”
Trajal Harrell, who came to contemporary dance fame with his Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church Series, ventures into a full-length solo project for the first time in a while. The point of departure is a personal one: Harrell’s selection as ‘Dancer of the Year’ by Tanz magazine in 2018 and the reflection on (self) worth which this triggered. With this project, Harrell focuses attention on (self) representation. He confronts his singularity and aesthetic with the eponymous honorary title and reflects on what he means to dance and what dance means to him. Here, he updates his legacy and what he hopes to leave behind for history not only as a choreographer but as a dancer.
Choreographed and Performed Trajal Harrell
Costumes and Sound Design Trajal Harrell
Dramaturg Sara Jansen
Trajal Harrell will deliver a Performance lecture at the CCA on Thu 17 October.
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Co- Producers: Kunstenfestival des Arts, Festival d’Automne, Lafayette Anticipation, Impulstanz Festival (Vienna), Bit Theatergarasjen (Bergen), Schauspielhaus Bochum, Museum Ludwig (Cologne) and Dampfzentrale (Bern)
DIG: James Batchelor and Collaborators (AUSTRALIA) | DEEPSPACE
Part of Dance International Glasgow
SCOTTISH PREMIERE
PLEASE NOTE - this performance takes place at The Glue Factory*. Audiences can enjoy a hot drink (of cider or Vimto) and there will be transport available to Tramway after the performance. You are advised to dress warmly.
*The Glue Factory (Shutter Entrance), Burns Street, Glasgow G4 9SE
A journey through art and science into the unknown.
Combining dance, sound and installation, DEEPSPACE is a mesmerising, intimate performance that examines our curiosity for the unknown. Playing at the intersection of art and science, the body is taken to the extremities of remoteness and proximity, connectedness and isolation, certainty and uncertainty.
In 2016 James Batchelor was invited to be official voyage artists on a 2-month expedition at sea studying remote islands in the sub-Antarctic. From this experience DEEPSPACE was born.
ACCESS: This is a promenade performance but fold-up chairs will be available for those who require it.
This production is good for Sub-pacs.
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HYPERSPACE, from the same series, will also be presented at DIG on Friday 18 and Saturday 19 October.
See both shows on the Saturday for just £22/£18 by booking a Double Bill ticket>
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Deepspace has been supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, the ACT Government through Screen ACT and the City of Melbourne through Arts House. Deepspace was developed through Arts House’s CultureLAB with the assistance of Creative Victoria.
DIG presents Kate E Deeming: Four Corners
Join us for the launch of a unique art exhibition by Dance Activist Kate E. Deeming in partnership with children from four local primary schools. The afternoon is a culmination of dance sessions with 550 school kids, facilitated by Kate, shared outside in locations around Pollokshields, and captured by photographer Basharat Khan. From Sunday 20 October these photographs will be on display, on shop front windows around the neighbourhood, creating a unique on-street art museum.
The unique and ambitious project was conceived by Kate to remind us that although we come from different geographic, political, social and cultural spaces we can still find ways to move together.
This event is a celebration of the work created by Kate and hundreds of children, with an opportunity to see Khan's photographs, and watch - and participate in - some outdoor dancing!
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Four Corners is a Moving Out co-commission from Tramway and The Work Room. Moving Out is a new initiative supporting artists to expand their practice through adapting work for public sites and outdoor contexts. MORE>
DIG: Frauke Requardt & Daniel Oliver (UK) | Dadderrs
Part of Dance International Glasgow
Scottish Premiere
*See this show and SOFTLAMP.autonomies for £22/£18 on Wed 23 Oct by booking a Double Bill ticket*
Daniel is dyspraxic and is too slow. Frauke has ADHD and is too quick. They are married and have kids.
Join them in the ‘Meadowdrome’, the fantastical escapist world they have created in response to these experiences as neurodivergent lovers, parents, and weirdo performance makers. Dadderrs is a space in which clunky (mis)understandings of bodies and actions can be discussed, explored and ultimately celebrated through ritualisation and play.
This performance contains male and female nudity, references to sex, loud music and haze. A standing show with optional audience participation, this is a relaxed performance where audiences are free to come and go, and take time out if they wish.
On Tuesday 22 October the performance culminates in an open space session where audience are invited to interact, reflect and play in the Meadowdrome with Frauke & Daniel.
Recommended for ages 16+
ACCESS: Integrated BSL available on Tuesday 22 Oct (Ian Hodgetts and Yvonne Strain)
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Dadderrs is produced by The Place & co-commissioned by Sick of the Fringe, Tramway & The Place. Supported by Motherworks and the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Photo - Zoe Manders