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All events take place at Tramway, Glasgow. See arika.org.uk
ARIKA: EPISODE 4 FREEDOM IS A CONSTANT STRUGGLE ARIKA: EPISODE 5 HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT
Daniel Carter & William Parker Bassist William Parker and saxophonist and trumpeter Daniel Carter (pictured) revisit the duo format they explored to thrilling effect in the late 1970s, as documented on last year’s incredible Centering boxset. Carter’s anarchist beliefs translate into a cooperative approach to musicmaking, while Parker has explored his engaged vision of art through big band projects, small groups and the annual Vision Festival. Sat 20 Apr, 10pm.
Amiri Baraka & Henry Grimes One of the major thinkers of the radical black tradition, Amiri Baraka tradition, Amiri Baraka is a dynamic performer of poetry. He’s joined by the great bassist, by the great bassist, Henry Grimes. Having worked with Charles Mingus, Cecil Taylor and Albert Mingus, Cecil Taylor and Albert Ayler, Grimes disappeared in the early 70s. Discovered in 2003 living in Discovered in 2003 living in Los Angeles, he has returned to music with renewed fervour. Sun 21 Apr, enewed fervour. Sun 21 Apr, 10pm. Wadada Leo Smith & John Tilbury The black radical tradition meets European improvisation in this summit mprovisation in this summit between trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and pianist John Tilbury. Smith’s pianist John Tilbury. Smith’s great project, Ten Freedom Summers, was released in 2012: it’s a eleased in 2012: it’s a four-hour suite based on the American Civil Rights movement. Closely Rights movement. Closely associated with the Marxist composer Cornelius Cardew, Tilbury’s left- lius Cardew, Tilbury’s left- wing politics continue to inform his avant-gardism. Fri 19 Apr, 10pm. dism. Fri 19 Apr, 10pm.
Zong! M NourbeSe Philip Canadian writer and activist M NourbeSe Philip is renowned for lip is renowned for her explorations of language, race, gender and colonialism, nd colonialism, manipulating words like a jazz musician reshapes notes. Zong! is apes notes. Zong! is her anti-narrative poem about the 1781 Zong massacre, where g massacre, where some 150 Africans were murdered aboard a slave ship sailing slave ship sailing from Liverpool. This powerful collective performance takes in rmance takes in song, chant, glossolalia and howl. Thu 18 Apr, 7.30pm; Sun pr, 7.30pm; Sun 21 Apr, 8.30pm.
Ni ‘mamita’ Ni ‘mulatita’ Teresa Maria Diaz a Diaz Nerio Born in the Dominican Republic, Teresa Maria Diaz Nerio a Diaz Nerio works with performance, video and sound to explore issues explore issues of sexuality and gender. She often engages in the re-contextualisation of n the re-contextualisation of historical images and texts, and in this ‘performed film lecture’ she uses rmed film lecture’ she uses dance, sound and melodrama to investigate the subversion of gender the subversion of gender and race identities in 1940s and 50s Caribbean cinema. Sat 20 Apr, an cinema. Sat 20 Apr, 8.45pm. (Stewart Smith). 18 THE LIST 18 Apr–16 May 2013
Pony Zion Garçon
(M)IMOSA/Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church Inspired by the era-defining 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning, which shone a spotlight on New York’s underground drag queen culture, this dance performance by experimental choreographer Trajal Harrell merges ‘sculptural acrobatics, elaborate drag and amazingly virtuosic movement’. And as far as voguing goes, these dancers hand Madonna her neat bottom on a plate. Fri 24 Apr, 8.30pm; Sat 25 May, 9.45pm. 24 Apr, 8.30pm; Sat 25
Hidden in Plain Sight: Club Hidden in Plain Sight: Less about the gender politics and queer theory behind the movement, Less about the gender po this Friday night party is much more about dancing shaking one’s queer/bi/ this Friday night party is m dragged-up/straight/undecided bodies to bass-heavy house sets from DJ dragged-up/straight/unde Sprinkles (see interview, page 17) and ballroom house originator, Vjuan Allure. Sprinkles (see interview, p Arika’s clubnight will also feature a festival highlight: flamboyant lunging, Arika’s clubnight will also f sashaying and fierce catwalking from The Legendary Pony Zion Garçon. sashaying and fierce Fri 24 Apr, 11pm. Fri 24 Apr,
We Have Something to say about . . . We H Vogue’ology Vog Key members of the house ballroom scene (including Key Pony Zion and Michael Roberson Garçon), assemble to Pony review the movement’s history and roots in black/ Latino/ review transgender/ queer culture, tracing its origins in Harlem, transg and its present day impact. and its Pt 1, Sat 25 May, 1.30pm; Pt 2, Sun 26 May. Pt 1, Sa
Soullessness – Cantos I–IV Soulless A project of Terre Thaemlitz’s that’s been four years in A project o the making (and was originally released as a 29-hour the makin experimental piano solo recording), this is a shortened experime version – an intriguingly dark sounding ‘audio and video version – investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and investig nuns’ use of audio devices.’ nuns’ Sat 25 May, 7.30pm. Sat 2 No Church in the Wild No Jack Halberstam, director of the Center for Feminist Jack Research at the University of Southern California, uses Res Kanye West and Jay-Z as pop culture examples to Kany explore issues surrounding tomboys, drag kings and explor female masculinity in this low theory discussion. Sat 25 May, female mas 5.30pm. (Claire Sawers) 5.30pm. (C