Tramway TV - Libby Odai: Create Reality
Originally recorded as a live Zoom Webinar and Q&A, Create Reality is now available on our IGTV channel until 15 April.
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with Ashanti Harris and Natasha Ruwona
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How can gallery spaces exist within a digital world? How can we connect with local communities in virtual space? Creative technologist Libby Odai is joined by Ashanti Harris and Natasha Ruwona as she discusses Create Reality, a virtual reality art exhibition currently being developed with Tramway, which will open in summer of this year.
This event will include a live discussion on the possibilities of artists and VR as well as a Q&A with the artists, which viewers are invited to join.
ACCESS: BSL interpreted by Rachel Jones and Eze Ani
This event will be recorded for future broadcast on Tramway's IGTV channel
About the panel
Libby Odai is a creative technologist based in Glasgow, developing and producing digital sculpture and performance with digital elements. She has previously produced digital works shown at Dancebase Edinburgh, The University of Edinburgh, Plat:form and the Swap Market in Govanhill.
Her work focuses on bringing digital concepts into the physical world. By breaking down barriers in technology, blending traditional arts such as dance and crochet with high tech components, she brings tech to new more diverse audiences. Her work aims to bridge the STEM gap as well as exploring the creative applications of new technology.
Ashanti and Natasha are both visual/interdisciplinary artists who have been invited to develop a work in the VR gallery.
Create Reality is being developed for Tramway and funded by the Performing Arts Venue Relief Fund from the Scottish Government and Creative Scotland.
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Tramway TV is an online platform for our arts programme, which features a combination of film, artist conversations, digital performances and online interventions from visual artists and performance makers across Scotland and beyond.
Tramway TV can be accessed on IGTV via our Instagram page.
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Tramway TV presents Performance Now
Meet the three artists who have been awarded Performance Now commissions by Tramway, as each share snaphots of their work and process on Tramway's IGTV channel.
Tramway has awarded Performance Now commissions to the following Scotland-based artists: Mamoru Iriguchi, Cindy Islam and Calvin Z Laing. Each artist will develop new work as part of Take Me Somewhere contemporary performance festival, who will announce their full programme in April 2021. Each artist will receive funding and producing support from Tramway to develop an online project interrogating hybrid approaches to making, ways of being present and what it means to make Performance Now.
You can visit the Take Me Somewhere website in early April to book your festival pass and follow the artists' work. Visit the website now to sign up for regular updates.
Performance Now is supported by the Performing Arts Venue Relief Fund.
More about the artists
Mamoru Iriguchi is a performance maker and theatre designer with a background in zoology. The Edinburgh-based artist's practice explores 2D/3D, liveness/pre-recorded-ness, gender/sexuality, and fairytales/evolution theories. His work has included: 'Sex Education Xplorers (S.E.X.)' (in development, Made in Scotland Showcase), 'Eaten' (nominee, Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland) and '4D Cinema' (Autopsy Award).
Calvin Z Laing is a performance artist currently living and working in Scotland. Recent performances include Calvin & Jogging, Edinburgh Art Festival, 2020, Calvin & Geppetto, Twitch TV, Scotland, 2020, Calvin & Ancient Times, A-Dash, Athens, 2019 and Calvin & Breakfast, Austrian Cultural Forum, London, 2019. He is a visiting lecturer at Kingston School of Art, Edinburgh College and Edinburgh College of Art.
Cindy Islam is one of the artist’s most recent pseudonyms. The artist uses different identities and anonymity as a way to critique the 'celebrity' status afforded to some artists. Cindy Islam is a counter(re)action of Britishness. Cindy Islam is the aftermath of thirty years of failing to comply with assimilative demands. Cindy Islam forges a Diasporic reality of ambivalence and rejection of homogeneous cultural values.
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Tramway TV is an online platform for our arts programme, which features a combination of film, artist conversations, digital performances and online interventions from visual artists and performance makers across Scotland and beyond.
Tramway TV can be accessed on IGTV via our Instagram page.
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Images from L-R are video stills from work by:
Cindy Islam, Calvin Z Laing, Mamoru Iriguchi
Tramway TV presents Craig Manson - Gayboys: The Movie!
Zoom premiere - 15 April
‘GAYBOYS’ was a live performance due to be premiered in April 2020. Originally a choreographic performance exploring gay men’s relationship to capitalism, the delay of the live event due to the COVID-19 pandemic radically shifted its themes and direction. Elements of the work have now been explored as an experimental 20 minute film to be showcased online.
The film premiere will take place via Zoom - register in advance here>
(link takes you to Eventbrite)
ACCESS: this film is subtitled
About the artist
Craig Manson is a performer and performance maker whose work spans theatre, live art, dance, cabaret and club performance. His practice often explores the complexities of gay male identity, lightly poking fun at the tropes, privileges and behaviours of modern gay man. He is currently an associate artist at Platform, and has worked with numerous artists and organisations including Tramway, CCA, National Theatre of Scotland, The Yard, Superfan, Buzzcut, Scottee, James Ley and Peter McMaster.
Credits
Concept & Performance: Craig Manson
Producer: Katy Dye
Performer/Creative Collaborator: Conner Milliken
Filming & Editing: Daniel Hughes
Design: MHz (Bex Anson & Dav Bernard)
Dramaturgical Support: Theo Seddon
With thanks to Karl Taylor, Alex Misick, Jill Smith, Vanessa Boyd, Mark Readhead, Tramway & the CCA.
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Tramway TV is an online platform for our arts programme, which features a combination of film, artist conversations, digital performances and online interventions from visual artists and performance makers across Scotland and beyond.
The main platform for Tramway TV is Tramway's IGTV channel on Instagram page.
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Photo by Daniel Hughes
UNCLES: One for the Road
Your Uncles, Rab Florence and Iain Connell, Burnistoun, are back for another round of drinks and another round of hilarious comedy as they set the world to rights.
Ages 18+
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Please note, these events are rescheduled as follows:
NEW DATE: Thu 5 Aug 2021 (originally moved from Sun 15 Mar 2020 to Sun 7 Feb 2021)
NEW DATE: Fri 6 Aug 2021 (originally moved from Fri 13 Mar 2020 to Fri 5 Feb 2021)
NEW DATE: Sat 7 Aug 2021 (originally moved from Sat 14 Mar 2020 to Sat 6 Feb 2021)
Tickets remain valid for the new date and are otherwise unchanged. Please contact us if you need to exchange your ticket to a different day and, availability permitting, we’ll do our best to accommodate you.