Discussion Side Burns at //BUZZCUT// Festival 2017
Side Burns Symposium: // Call for Participation: Coming Together, Falling Apart //
Returning to Glasgow for the sixth time is BUZZCUT, a community focused festival of live art and experimental performance. Over five days BUZZCUT will base itself in the Pearce Institute, Govan. A series of talks, presentations and provocations entitled 'Side Burns' from activists, academic and artists, is running during the day on Wednesday and every morning of the festival from 10-12.Partaking in Side Burns are German-based performance and visual artists Alexa Wilson, Tobi Ayedadjou and Anna Berndtson to present their talks and contributions on their practice in reference to the performance landscape in Germany as they see it.
In 2017, the symposium gather to respond in a variety of ways, from multiple perspectives, to this urgent question: How do we create a common life together in such divisive political circumstances? A call for ‘unity’ is one that is repeated on all sides of politics. But what does it mean to be united? Does it always demand opposition to outsiders, or are there other ways of coming together? Side Burns wants to open up a conversation about how we make alliances, why we make them, our individual agency and our collective powers.
Side Burns is organised and hosted by Simon James Holton and Phoebe Patey-Ferguson with support from Stephen Greer, the University of Glasgow and the Goethe-Institut Glasgow.