Some things want to run V/DA | Sonic Séance: The Gathering CCA

Friday 28 June — Sunday 28 July 2019
Tue-Sat: 11am-6pm // Sun: 12noon-6pm // Preview: Fri 28 June, 7pm-9pm //Free
Centre for Contemporary Arts , 350 Sauchiehall Street , Glasgow G2 3JD
V/ is a multi-disciplinary collective founded by Mele Broomes in 2011. V/ curates and produces dance, live performance, video work and practical workshops in collaboration with various dance artists.
Responding to Sonic Séance, a V/ performance, Sonic Séance: The Gathering is an exhibition bringing together the artistic practices of choreographer, director and performer Mele Broomes; film-maker and visual artist Jen Martin; actress, singer/songwriter and composer Patricia Panther; researcher and visual artist Ashanti Harris; musician, DJ, artist Letitia Pleiades; as well as invited artists Nene Camara & Angel Ng, Shaheeda Sinckler, Divine Tasinda, Bea Webster, Claricia Parinussa, and Raman Mundair. Their communal work aims to integrate resistance into the condition of being controlled, governed, pre-identified and spokenfor.
Looking at the past, present and future, subverting elements used to shape and manipulate for the imperialist gaze, this exhibition is an expression of anger, solidarity and euphoria against the dominance of cultural imperialism. Encompassing live performance, audio, video and text works, Sonic Séance: The Gathering is an immersive, warm and inviting space, and a continuously moving experience.
The video works perform as capsules of thought and imagination, channelling voices and spirit interlocutors.
Live and pre-recorded music scores expand themes of spirituality, female empowerment, witchcraft, afro-futurism, ancestral heritage, body work and ritual practices.
Related CCA Events
Reading Group: White Fragility by Robin D’Angelo
Sun 30 June 2019
Angel Ng and Nene Camara: Body to Body
Tue 2 July 2019
Workshop: Sonic Séance choreographic repertoire with Mele Broomes
Thu 4 July 2019
Reading Group: White Fragility by Robin D’Angelo
Sun 7 July 2019
Methods as a British Sign Language performer and Deaf actor
Tue 9 July 2019
Workshop: Mother/Love with Raman Mundair
Thu 11 July 2019
Reading Séance: Your Silence Will Not Protect You – A Collection of Writings by Audre Lorde
Sun 14 July 2019
Performance with Mele Broomes, Divine Tasinda, Bea Webster and Claricia Parinussa
Tue 16 July 2019
Body Awareness Workshop with Patricia Panther
Thu 18 July 2019
Reading Séance: Your Silence Will Not Protect You – A Collection of Writings by Audre Lorde
Sun 21 July 2019
Sound and Spoken Word with Shaheeda Sinckler
Tue 23 July 2019
V/DA Performance and Closing Party
Sat 27 July 2019

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