Join us on for the opening event of our exhibition 𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙨/𝙖𝙨 in Glasgow International 2026 festival featuring artists Matthew Cosslett, Maria Howard, Zsuzsanna Ihar, Coneffluents (Jac Common and Katy Lewis Hood), Sonia Levy and Bint Mbareh, Extense (Dianne Burdon and Clara Hancock), and Camara Taylor and the Green Clydeside project by Transition Security Project (or Pinelopi Gardika, Leela Jadhav and Khem Rogaly). The verntisage and dedicated events programme will take place on Saturday 6 June, 5 – 7 pm, on the ground floor of 5 Florence Street.

Programme:

5-5:45pm: Exhibition Opening & Drinks Reception

5:45-7pm: Green Clydeside: Sounding Alternative Futures

This event “Green Clydeside: Sounding Alternative Futures” features a live performance of Bint Mbareh and Sonia Levy’s new sound commission ‘War Sirens’ (2026), along with a talk, and discussion between Mbareh, exhibiting artist Zsuzsanna Ihar and researchers Khem Rhogaly, Pinelopi Gardika and Leela Jadhav from Transition Security Project (Common Wealth).

The talk will present “Green Clydeside: Modelling Military Industrial Conversion,” a research project building on interviews with workers at Govan and Scotstoun shipyards to model what industrial conversion away from military production could look like along the Clyde.

Industrial conversion is a process often led by unions or workers that reimagines existing sites of military production, identifying how workers’ skills and on-site tools, technologies and infrastructures can be used for a new purpose, rooted in public good rather than endless war. 
Clydeside shipbuilding histories are often invoked to justify ongoing UK government investment in military production, promising jobs and security, and obscuring the realities of violence and labour precarity. These military industrial sites are directed by enormous public investment, which could instead be directed to public good, through conversion to green energy production. 

As the EU and NATO call for re–armament and preside over new wars and atrocities, this event asks what artistic methods can offer in terms of reimagining riverine topographies.

What forms of imaging and sensing do we need to break centuries-long cycles of Western, imperial violence and hydro-colonialism? Can the Clyde teach us new ways of being, a hydrosocial transformation? 

The event will conclude with a discussion on modelling alternative futures between the artists, researchers & River is/as curator Kelly Rappleye. 

Access

This event will be live captioned and a captioned version of the sound work will be displayed in the exhibition, which will remain open to 6pm. You can find our venue access guide on the website, and can email info@16collective.org with any access needs or questions. 5 Florence St is wheelchair accessible with a wheelchair accessible toilet.

Date: Saturday 6 June
Time: 5–7pm
Location: Ground Floor, 5 Florence Street, Gorbals, Glasgow G5 0YX
Link below – free, drop-in welcome but booking encouraged due to limited capacity