21 – 23 August 2026

Hard Labour

All welcome to a weekend of sex worker resistance and joy!  Workshops, talks and visual art, hosted by Scotland for Decrim.

16 August 2026

Tell Me About It

Scotland for Decrim

Tell Me About It creates a space for direct one-to-one conversations with people who habitually find others (filmmakers, politicians, journalists) speaking on their behalf… In partnership with Edinburgh Art Festival.

15 – 22 April 2026

Touching the Future

John Lee Clark

Dr Gabrielle Hodge shares words on Touching the Future, a Protactile project with John Lee Clark, Soline Vennetier, Issy McGrath, Lisa van der Mark, Kyle Bettley and Jordan Goldman, supported by Arika, kickstarting radical DeafBlind Protactile world-building in Glasgow.

There are other ways to know and be in the world. Arika has an organisational artistic practice, based in research, relationships and encounters, engaging with experimental or un-recuperated aesthetics.

We explore alternative perspectives and understandings drawn from the intersections of art, philosophy, ethics and politics, as they contribute to cultural, social or political change, and give our lives meaning. We seek to find ways to prefigure a future world by the ways we move in our current one.

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The Archive is a space to share the documentation of our work, over 1,000 events from the past 20+ years!

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Episodes

A key part of our programming, Episodes explore the interlinked nature of aesthetics and social organising, through public events, investigating interlinked themes and contradictions, which develop from one Episode to the next.
At the edge of a roadside stand a group of 3 people. A person dressed in black robes is being filmed by one person and is talking to the camera. Another person stands next to them listening. To the left of the group is the back of a van heavily loaded with personal belongings including laundry bags, chairs, cooking pot, plastic water bottle & oil.
13 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

For Ever Gaza

Ayreen Anastas Rene Gabri

An improvised film about our worlds at the brink, on the edge, in front of a crisis. To stand on the side of life, by seeing the resistance to genocide in Palestine as a turning point to overcome.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Rashad Becker on stage, performing at a desk with sound and audio equipment. The background is dark and a pinkish red light highlights Rashad
17 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Based on a True Story – 1986

Rashad Becker

The most sophisticated synthetic music around: timbrally otherwise body music as sonified fictions and auditive sociograms.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Portrait of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson & Robyn Maynard
16 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Rehearsals for Living

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Robyn Maynard Harry Josephine Giles

Reading their letters to each other, and chatting about prefigurative politics as the practice of relentlessly building worlds through unspeakable violence and loss; of building worlds and living in them anyway.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Video Interview, Nov 2024

To Give Up This World, To Have Many Others – In Conversation with Ailton Krenak

Ailton Krenak (by video) Denise Ferreira da Silva Amilcar Packer

A recorded a conversation that grounds the Episode, exploring Ailton Krenak’s thinking and distinct poetics of life; as it work against capitalism and fascism, as a denunciation of political alliances, and maybe even of ‘politics’.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Portrait of Geni Núñez smiling wearing a red robe with a red orange wall behind.
14 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Against a monoculture of thought

Geni Núñez Amilcar Packer

Thinking against the monoculturalism of Western thought—of faith, affection, sexuality and gender—which completely lacks any utility to, or descriptive value of Indigenous worldviews.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Silhouette of a person in front of a blue background overlaid with blurry light
24 November 2019
Tramway

Something Said

Jay Bernard

Haunted by the archive of the New Cross Fire, Jay Bernard presents a film and poetry reading that undertakes a queer exploration of black British history, reconstructed from archives and apparent debris.

Episode 10: A Means Without End
A disused railway line overgrown with trees, wild flowers, plants
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Beyond | Category

With these theme we want to set work that doesn’t seem to fit close to or in any category at all alongside work that deals explicitly with category and practices of categorising, or escaping category. A couple of suggestions for starting to investigate this theme could be Teresa Maria Diaz Nerio’s performed film lecture about Caribbean cinema and Fred Moten and Saidiya Hartman disucssing what it might mean to be fugitive.