What's On Scotland 17-24 Feb: The Self Assembled & more
Immerse yourself in performing arts company Oceanallover's experimental theatre and costume showcase at CCA. Elsewhere, there's a new Cineskinny Film Club, and Art Terry plays Summerhall
Who says being an adult can’t be fun? An immersive evening of performance taking place at the CCA on 18 February, The Self Assembled is a unique theatre show that invites its audience to play dress up along with its performers, with rails of costumes each with their own unique history stacked around the room.
Transporting the audience through three decades of theatre, The Self Assembled is a delirious celebration of the work of performing arts company Oceanallover, featuring fragments of shows including Ecdysis (In Vivo), Orographic and a new work The Scales of the World, as well as a costume collaboration with legendary couturier Mr Pearl. There’s also live performances created by Fionnuala Dorrity, Dylan Read, Suzi Cunningham and more, a Slam Poetry event curated by Carlos Hernan, and delirious dance tunes from legendary Vixen Sound (aka Phoebe I-H). Tickets are available on a sliding scale here.
TAAHLIAH: The Ultimate Angels
SWG3, Glasgow. 18 Feb, 11pm
SAY Award nominee and SAMA-winner TAAHLIAH premieres her first live show. The Ultimate Angels draws as much from Glasgow’s various underground subcultures as it does the rich history of the queer scene, offering a genre-bending music experience like no other.
Cineskinny Film Club
Various venues, Edinburgh + Glasgow. 21-23 Feb, 7pm
The Cineskinny Film Club is back for a whole new year in partnership with MUBI, this month offering free preview screenings of Lukas Dhont's Oscar-nominated Close. Advance tickets are all gone but there will be a reserve list on the door so drop by for on-the-night spots.
Harun Farocki: Consider Labour
Cooper Gallery, Dundee. Until 1 Apr
The first major exhibition in Scotland of works by seminal artist Harun Farocki, this exhibition brings together several of Farocki's pioneering film essays across ten screens, exploring how capitalism, consumerism, media, technology and war intertwine with all our lives.
Art Terry & the Black Bohemians
Summerhall, Edinburgh. 17 Feb, 7:30pm
Featuring music and film created over 52 days in lockdown, this unique live music event from gorgeous LA musician Art Terry brings the creativity of isolation to life, featuring a gospel choir, a brass section, and Terry's quintessential psychedelic folk approach.
↪ Cavetown
Barrowlands, Glasgow. 19-20 Feb
Hitch a ride to Deviltown with fresh-faced Gen-Z bedroom pop crooner Cavetown. Playing two nights at Glasgow's Barrowlands, this long-anticipated tour is almost all sold out - grab the last few tickets quick!
→ On Clogger Lane
Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow. 21 Feb, 6:30pm
This winner of the prestigious Margaret Tait Award 2021 examines the effects of capitalist infrastructures on the material landscape. Haunted and radically ecological, Andrew Black's sweeping documentary is screening for free for one night only.
→ Cocoa and Nothing Launch Party
The Poetry Club, Glasgow. 21 Feb, 7pm
The gang at groundbreaking poetry outfit SPAM Press are launching their newest offering, a delectable collection co-written by Maria Sledmere and Colin Herd titled Cocoa and Nothing. Head to the appropriately named The Poetry Club for some lyrical treats.