France-Lise McGurn: In Emotia
Tuesday - Friday 12 noon - 5pm
Saturday & Sunday 12 noon - 6pm
CLOSED Mondays
France-Lise McGurn (born 1983) is a Glasgow-based artist who predominantly works with painting to create layered installations that incorporate the gallery walls, floors and ceilings.
'In Emotia' is a derivative term which suggests a state of being, simultaneously emotional and in motion. Mcgurn’s figurative painting and wall drawings evoke bodies and limbs overlapping and interacting in ambivalent spaces, at parties, in night clubs, on streets or lying in bed either side of paper thin walls. Cities and bodies, are constantly moving and shaping each other, a sentiment which McGurn evokes through the shifting forms and gestures of her metropolitan figures. Often the works themselves overlap from canvas to wall to floor, creating energetic compositions which suggest intimacy, ecstasy, sexuality, violence and loss.
Working intuitively rather than through direct appropriation, McGurn uses swift brushstrokes and repeated marks to create loose associations about place and relationships, inviting viewers to conjure their own narratives. For Tramway, McGurn takes this process one step further, translating the fluid lines of her paintings into sculptural forms fabricated from neon. A series of new mobile sculptures will shimmer and turn in the space, constantly rearranging themselves to create new narratives and configurations.
Her work has been featured in Art Now at Tate Britain, Extensa Suite, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, 2018, Virginia Woolf, an exhibition inspired by her writings 2017–18, Tate St Ives, Pallant House, Chichester, and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. France-Lise McGurn is represented by Simon lee gallery.
This exhibition is generously supported Simon Lee Gallery
Image: Easy Emotia, (detail), 2019. Courtesy the artist.
Joseph Toonga Dance Masterclass
A one-off open masterclass with choreographer Joseph Toonga of Just Us Dance Theatre.
Explore Joseph’s signature style: Embedded in the hip hop form, it pushes the boundaries, utilising real life stories to physicalise emotive themes relevant to today’s society, and challenging proposals commonly used in hip hop dance.
The masterclass will include:
-Learning specific dance Techniques including Hip Hop, popping, krump and contemporary dance
-Learning sections of the show BORN TO MANIFEST
-Creative tasks using the show as a stimulus
Open to all abilities, but limited to ages 10+
FREE but please book - email: ArtMusicLearning@glasgowlife.org.uk
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This workshop precedes a performance at Tramway of Born to Manifest, a powerful new Hip-Hop dance double bill by Joseph Toonga, on Friday 7 February.
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Photo by Camilla Greenwell
Hardeep Pandhal | Confessions of a Thug: Pakiveli
Tue - Fri 12 - 5pm
Sat & Sun 12 - 6pm
CLOSED Mondays
Confessions of a Thug: Pakiveli is a multimedia exhibition whose title takes its name from the pulp fiction of 1839 ‘Confessions of a Thug’ by the Orientalist writer Phillip Meadows Taylor. The exhibition’s subtitle ‘Pakiveli’ refers to one of the artist’s rap monikers, adapted from an alias of the late rapper 2Pac, ‘Makiveli’. Taking the premise that heritage is constituted through performative and discursive practices, this exhibition reflects Pandhal’s ongoing exploration into the ways in which identities are subject to conflicting realities that shift over time and place.
Pandhal takes as a starting point the historical application of the word 'thug’, which originated in British-India to name a so-called religious cult of murderers. Although opinion is divided, many believe that ‘thugs’ were politically sensationalised by the British to appear innately criminal. The fiction ‘Confessions of a Thug’ mentioned above is exemplary of such sensationalism. It was adapted from real British criminal records and took the form of a deposition of a supposed ‘thug’.
Bridging different contexts, Pandhal has approached this exhibition as an exaggerated deposition, by connecting practices of associative thinking and elliptical wordplay akin to rap production across a wide range of subject matter and media formats.
This exhibition is supported by The Henry Moore Foundation.
Photography by Max Slaven
Les Amazones d’Afrique & Special Guests
This event is now SOLD OUT
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BEMIS presents
Les Amazones d’Afrique & Special Guests with Celtic Connections in the Community
As part of our Celtic Connections season, Tramway is delighted to welcome the truly awe-inspiring Les Amazones d’Afrique, an all-female supergroup of acclaimed West African singers dedicated to ending women’s inequality and oppression, whose founders include Mariam Doumbia (of Amadou & Mariam) and Angélique Kidjo.
“A proud, forceful demonstration of the strength and variety of modern African music” (Independent)
The evening will begin with a special showcase programme featuring artists and groups from five Glasgow communities, presenting specially-created performances that celebrate the city’s contemporary diversity of cultural traditions. This showcase is the finale to a new Celtic Connections in the Community programme, a partnership with BEMIS, Scotland’s support body for the ethnic minority voluntary sector, backed by UNISON and the Scottish Government.
Fatoumata Diawara and VILDÁ
A line-up of compelling World Music as part of Celtic Connections 2020
Fatoumata Diawara’s 2011 debut LP saw her hailed as a thrilling new standard-bearer of Mali’s celebrated musical traditions. Since then, she’s featured in collaborations with Bobby Womack, Herbie Hancock, Roberto Fonseca and Damon Albarn, plus compatriots Amadou and Mariam, Oumou Sangaré and Toumani Diabaté. 2018’s Grammy-nominated second album, Fenfo, showcased her compelling range and depth of expression amid a vibrant array of ancient and modern sounds. “One of the most dynamic voices in Afropop today” (PopMatters)
Also drawing fruitfully on both old and new, Nordic duo VILDÁ evoke their wild native landscapes in a unique fusion of Sámi joiks and Finnish accordion tradition, allied with shamanic grooves, beatboxing, throat-singing and electronica.
Simon Thacker's Svara-Kanti and Naad-hara
**PLEASE NOTE this event has moved to Òran Mór**
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Simon Thacker is an artist of myriad musical passions and polymath virtuosity: a guitarist, composer, improviser and ensemble leader. Here, he explores and reimagines north Indian folk-song traditions, with young Punjabi/Sufi/Bollywood star Afsana Khan, Grammy-winning tabla master Sukhwinder Singh 'Pinky' and violinist Jackie Shave, leader of the Britten Sinfonia.
Sharing the bill is brand-new Scottish/Indian project Naad-hara featuring Lewis singer Mischa Macpherson and Hyderabad’s Ankna Arockiam, exploring their respective traditions together with award-winning Snuffbox fiddler/bassist Charlie Stewart, pianist Alistair Iain Paterson and Glasgow-born Hardeep Deerhe (Sodhi) on tabla.
Just Us Dance Theatre: Born to Manifest
‘You say I’m just a black guy. I know who I am, do you know who I am?’
Born to Manifest is a powerful new Hip-Hop dance double bill that illuminates the experiences of young black British men.
Joseph Toonga draws from real life accounts to a create a poignant, responsive piece that simultaneously champions cultural identity and challenges racial stigmas. Set to an original score from Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante, this dynamic new dance work explores the power and privilege that still oppress and dictate. Joseph delivers stark home truths through the complexity and beauty of an individual’s journey.
‘I feel a responsibility as a black male to empower the younger generation as a role model and an example of how dance can provide a positive, successful route. Mental health, and black men’s experiences of it, is little discussed, which is why I am passionate about creating awareness to shift stigmas.’ – Joseph Toonga 2018.
Recommended for ages 12+
Born to Manifest is Just Us Dance Theatre’s latest hip hop programme which has been commissioned by DanceEast - where Joseph Toonga is an Associate Artist, The Place and Redbridge Drama Centre, and developed with Dance Base and B-Motion, Bassano.
Photo by Camilla Greenwell
Scottish Ensemble & Untitled Projects: We Are In Time
Scottish Ensemble and Untitled Projects in association with
Perth Theatre present
We Are In Time
Written by Pamela Carter and Directed by Stewart Laing
Friday 28 & Saturday 29 February 2020, 7.30pm
The performance on 28 February will be followed by a post-show talk
Two bodies, suspended in darkness.
A team of surgeons, poised as one.
A gathered chorus, singing of life and death.
And a human heart, speeding through the city...
Unfurling through song, words and a visionary live score for strings and electronics, We Are In Time follows the extraordinary journey of two strangers, one giving life, the other receiving it. Musicians are at once performers, chorus and specialist team as the drama between renowned mezzo-soprano Ruby Philogene and vocalist Jodie Landau unfolds, and time ticks on.
The result is a thought-provoking meditation on life, and on what it means to live; on the frailty and strength of human beings, working together, with science, against nature, in search of the superhuman.
“thoroughly original, offbeat and exciting” (Scotsman on Scottish Ensemble)
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Writer
Pamela Carter
Composer
Valgeir Sigurðsson
Director
Stewart Laing
Musical Director
Jonathan Morton
Producer
Raw Material
Musicians/Chorus
Scottish Ensemble
Vocalists
Ruby Philogene
Jodie Landau
And featuring
Alison O’Donnell as Narrator
Athletico Mince
Bob Mortimer and Andy Dawson are bringing their hit podcast to the stage again, for the first time since 2017. Athletico Mince has had almost 30 million listens since its launch almost four years ago, and what is essentially two middle-aged men talking rubbish was described as “the best podcast in the world” by GQ magazine. Bob is best known as half of Reeves & Mortimer while Andy is best known for regularly buying chicken dippers in his dressing gown from his local Asda.
Expect to hear from your favourite characters while witnessing Bob and Andy’s supreme levels of stagecraft.
Recommended for ages 14+
(Running time: 60 mins. Please note the show is not an episode recording)
Athletico Mince
Bob Mortimer and Andy Dawson are bringing their hit podcast to the stage again, for the first time since 2017. Athletico Mince has had almost 30 million listens since its launch almost four years ago, and what is essentially two middle-aged men talking rubbish was described as “the best podcast in the world” by GQ magazine. Bob is best known as half of Reeves & Mortimer while Andy is best known for regularly buying chicken dippers in his dressing gown from his local Asda.
Expect to hear from your favourite characters while witnessing Bob and Andy’s supreme levels of stagecraft.
Recommended for ages 14+
(Running time: 60 mins. Please note the show is not an episode recording)