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Fist Inside the Velvet Glove CALLOUT

One week to apply to our call out. We've had the most wonderful week residency at ffotogallery... sifting, chatting, laughing, remembering, and discovering things.

Thanks to all who joined, more soon....

For now, a lil tired behind the eyes from it all but wanted to give a flavour of findings...swipe for goodies.

Call out details on website and insta....excited to see your ideas

Love team tB

📢 CALLING ARTISTS - NOT TO BE MISSED 📢 GLASBREN, our artist forum and outreach session, returns Saturday May 2nd as part of tB25 – The Fist Inside the Velvet Glove, tactileBOSCH’s celebration of our anniversary year. GLASBREN is a session designed to bring new and known artists into tactileBOSCH, giving us chance to come together and put the world to rights.

For this special edition of GLASBREN, we’ll be opening the doors of the now disused Culverhouse Cross CarpetRight store, offering a unique and rare opportunity to think and play performatively in a raw site that has been left relatively untouched since it closed in 2024.

We want to meet performance artists, artists, art students, and other interested parties who are engaged with (or thinking about engaging with) a performance practice. Strictly informal, we’ll convene alongside members of tactileBOSCH and our in-house performance collective SGOR - there’ll be lots of chances to work/play/spectate.

The day will be split into two parts, with a forum discussion hosted in the morning, followed by an afternoon of closed, improvised performance, responding to the echoes that linger in the site as a former place of labour, loss, and carpet. We’ll gather and work collectively and collaboratively in this one of a kind site, one that promises to offer rich points for performative departure, digging into it’s “environ-mental” qualities and aspects.

If you’re game and would like to attend, please email [email protected] for more details – we can’t wait to hear from you.

tB, in collaboration with Sgarab tapes, are thrilled to announce that French quintet Bégayer will headline a night of celebrations as part of TB25: Fist Inside the Velvet Glove. 24th May from 7pm at Chapter Arts Centre. Ticket link in bio
 
One of the most extraordinary live acts in Europe today, Bégayer are a perfect distillation of the daring, interdisciplinary work which tB have always sought to bring to Wales. Waves of primordial rolling rhythms serve as bedrock for Bégayer’s alien landscapes, where the air is thick with strangled cries and rustic musics, employing lutes, lyres, bagpipes, and a mesmerising mix of 16mm visuals and frenetic lo-fi lighting. A band working tirelessly in the name of those without tradition, their raucous live shows are an ecstatic rejection of a culture of scarcity. 2024’s Évohé Bègue locates the group somewhere between such sonic landmarks as Morton Feldman, Nigerian ogene music, the post-punk pleas of New York no-wave and the laughing insolence of northern Italian folk songs. Absolutely real gear
 
Celyn of Gwent’s turbulent, operatic electronica could be a contemporary soundtrack for Wales’s thin places, fusing worlds, cultures and timelines separated only by that most made-up of concepts: a border. A bard for the Anthropocene, their recent run of shows has established them as a leading q***r voice in the South Wales underground, and their debut album ‘Dying and Rising’ is due for release in Summer 2026 📸
 
No Birds (Beth Greenhalgh and Xavier Boucherat) make monolith music via wavetable synth drones, crushed-up tape transmissions, indeterminable voices through the walls of your flat, the bells, the bells: a cold cruise through the post-industrial malaise, in loose pursuit of the giant head in the sky! FFO Sarah Davarchi, Drew McDowall, Kevin Drumm, their debut EP is forthcoming on Cardiff’s Sgarab Tapes

Supported by Arts Council Wales