Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
18–21 Apr 2013
Tramway, Glasgow
In 5 weeks
DAY PASS - £6
FESTIVAL PASS - £14
All talks are FREE and unticketed.
FESTIVAL PASS - £14
All talks are FREE and unticketed.
About the event
Do art forms like black radical poetry, free jazz and improvisation
create a space for the performance of freedom? Did they ever? And can
they still do so now?
“New Black Music is this: Find the self, then kill it.”
Amiri Baraka.
What
is the link between radical Black art forms (Free Jazz, Improvisation,
Poetry…) and the fugitive spaces that produced them (the AACM, the Black
Arts Movement). Taken together, are they an attempt to create an
alternate sociality: an ensemblic, collective, non-individualistic
performance of blackness? Is this the performance of freedom - as
encounter, rupture, collision, and passionate response; as a necessarily
political, necessarily aesthetic, necessarily erotic black social life?
And how can we relate, artistically and socially to those art forms
and politics today, here in Glasgow?
Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
is our attempt to think about that through performances and discussions
with of some of the great American jazz artists and writers, critics
and poets, their European counterparts, and with people in Glasgow who
might have something to say in return.
Involving:
Amiri
Baraka, Ray Brassier, Daniel Carter, Henry Grimes, Mattin, Fred Moten,
Teresa Maria Diaz Nerio, No-Total, Or staying within the tale, William
Parker, M. NourbeSe Philip, Howard Slater, Wadada Leo Smith, John
Tilbury.
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