Defiling Rain
- Dates and Opening times
- Fri 12 Jun, 12pm - 5pmSat 13 Jun, 12pm - 6pm
PERFORMANCESat 13 Jun, 7pm
Free but ticketed, booking information to follow - Venue
Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, G41 2PE
- Participants
- Jamie Crewe
- Presented by
University of Edinburgh Art Collection, LUX Scotland, Tramway & Glasgow International
- Accessiblity
Level Access, Step Free: The venue has ramped or level access and/or lifts to upper floors
Toilets: The venue has toilets available for visitors
Accessible Toilets: The venue has a wheelchair accessible toilet
Gender Neutral Toilets: The venue has toilets not separated by gender or sex
Baby Change: The venue has baby changing facilities
Refreshments: There is a cafe or somewhere you can purchase refreshments
Bike Rack: There is cycle parking at the venue
Jamie Crewe’s Defiling Rain is a collection of short audio-visual vignettes which take the opinionated animals and personified weather of medieval fables and abandon them in a city struck by disaster. Each vignette is a song, with music performed by a small ensemble of musicians and a variety of vocalists, and lyrics describing fraught and fantastical scenarios. They are fables with the tails lopped off or the heads removed.
Using a diverse range of cinematic techniques including animation, puppetry, and collage, Jamie’s stories without morals are richly illustrated and screened in an endlessly randomised order. Authority has fled or been overturned, the materials of commentary and instruction are deranged, and with their remains Defiling Rain stages the awe, horror, and joy of disintegration.
For the debut of Defiling Rain at Glasgow’s Tramway, the University of Edinburgh Art Collection and LUX Scotland will present a special two-day screening accompanied by a unique live performance featuring Jamie and a musical ensemble.