DIG 2025: Elyla Artists’ Film Programme (Nicaragua)
As part of Tramway's Dance International Glasgow festival their gallery programme presents an exhibition of three performance films by multi-disciplinary artist and activist Elyla.
About DIG 2025: Elyla Artists’ Film Programme (Nicaragua)
As part of Tramway's Dance International Glasgow festival, 9 - 24 May, our gallery programme presents an exhibition of three performance films by multi-disciplinary artist and activist Elyla (b. 1989, Chontales, Nicaragua).
Informed by Mesoamerican indigenous cultural practices, their work deploys the potency of rituals, folk traditions and ancestral knowledges to mediate urgent social issues and queer politics.
Torita - encuetada and Rumbling Earth are screened on a loop in our front gallery (T5) at the following times:
Fri 9 May | 12 – 5.30pm, 5.30 - 7pm*
Sat 10 May | 12 – 5pm*
Sun 11 May | 12 – 5pm
(CLOSED Mon/Tue)
Wed 14 May | 12 – 5.30pm, 5.30 - 7pm*
Thu 15 May | 12 – 7.30pm
Fri 16 May | 12 - 5pm
*A third film, Prayer for Tending Death, is included in the programme at these times. This film includes scenes of animal cruelty.
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