Image courtesy of Insane Championship Wrestling
Still Lives: Glasgow
Daniel Kok and Luke George
(Singapore/Australia)
25 October 2025 | 2.00pm — 4.00pm
£15 | £10 (Concession)
All ages, parental guidance (see Content Notes)
Tramway, T1 (Directions)
Visual / Closed Captions / Relaxed*
Still Lives is a performance-installation series that captures (with ropes) significant moments or movement in relation to specific cultural contexts. Each edition of Still Lives is a durational, site-responsive and context-specific process of binding cultural objects in their place.
For Glasgow, Still Lives enters the charged world of professional wrestling, a scene with deep local roots and fiercely loyal fans. The artists will lean into the city’s appetite for drama and physical theatre, exploring energy and inertia, movement and pause, kayfabe and the suspension (quite literally) of disbelief.
The artists use the traditional Japanese shibari rope technique, historically used for restraint, and in this work recognised for its aesthetic and sculptural qualities. Collaborating with local wrestlers, they will re-stage the high drama and choreography of the ring, tying up their bodies mid-tackle and suspending them above the mat.
The performance will be soundtracked live by Huntress: expect goth-metal textures, pulsing techno and strange, beautiful noise.
Collaborators
Jake Lawless
Hailing from The Smuggler's Trail, Night City, he is one half of two-time ICW Tag Team Champions, Arcade Violence (alongside Brody Turnbull), Jake Lawless will step into the ring with the artists in mid-motion.
Molly Spartan
Scottish women’s wrestling heavyweight legend with international fights under her belt, Molly Spartan has wrestled for Iron Girders, Insane Championship Wrestling and Ring of Honour.
Huntress (live soundtrack)
Frankie is a Filipina/Irish performance artist working with the mediums of movement, visual art and sound. Her work centres club culture where she believes in the possibility of sanctuary and protection for queer communities and uses dance and sound as a tool of transformation. She entered the Glasgow club scene in 2015 as a live performer and has evolved her practice to DJ, booker and producer under the name Huntress. She has played alongside artists Juliana Huxtable, Mykki Blanco and FKA Twigs as well as being a resident for Glasgow based night Ponyboy.
Access Notes
This performance is highly visual with a small amount of spoken text and music throughout
Text spoken live will be BSL Interpreted by Yvonne Strain. All videos have Closed Captions in English.
This show embraces some elements of a Relaxed Performance. For Still Lives, this means that content, sound, or light levels have not been changed, but there is a more relaxed atmosphere for audiences. Including:
Audiences can leave and re-enter the theatre
Audiences are welcome to move, tic, stim or make noise
Ear Defenders, Ear Plugs and Dark Glasses will be available to borrow
Sensory Notes:
Loud Music
One moment of Flashing Lights
One moment of Full Blackout
Language: English
Venue and Seating:
Audiences are free to move about the space, stand or sit on chairs, beanbags, cushions or the seating bank.
T1 - Tramway (ground floor). Wheelchair accessible. Tramway venue access information.
Audiences are free to move about the space, stand or sit. Seating options: Chairs, beanbags and cushions. Seating Bank with flip down, padded seats with arms. 1 row step free. Wheelchair spaces available to reserve via Tramway Box Office.
Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.
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Content Notes
The work contains consensual tying & partial human suspension.
There is no nudity or sexual content.
Mild swearing in Video Portraits (viewing optional).
Elements of rope suspension are featured in this work as part of its visual language. This is presented in a non-sexual context. Parents and guardians may wish to use their discretion.
Artist Bio
Luke George (he/they) is based in Melbourne and works across performance, installation, craft, and curation, informed by their practices in sex work, kink, and bodywork. Daniel Kok lives between Berlin and Singapore. He is the Artistic Director of arts intermediary in Singapore Dance Nucleus and explores spectatorship through provocative figures of performance. Collaborating since 2014, Luke + Daniel have been creating experimental that demand intercultural collaboration and deeper social engagement. Presented across four continents, their projects include Still Lives: Melbourne (Green Room Awards 2023) and appearances at platforms such as Venice Biennale, AsiaTOPA, and Tokyo Performing Arts Meeting.
Credits
Artists: Luke George and Daniel Kok
Recipient of two 2022 Green Room Awards (Melbourne) - Contemporary & Experimental Performance: Outstanding Achievement + Design & Technical Achievement
Made possible with support from the Singapore Arts Council. Produced by Something Great.
