RANTERS by Jude Browning: Closing Performance 22 March, 4-6pm, 173 Trongate St with Nat McGhee
Join us this Saturday 22 March, 4-6pm at 173 Trongate for “angels of post apocalyptic paranoia” a performance by Jude Browning and Nat McGhee, in the closing reception for RANTERS solo exhibition by Jude Browning, curated by 16 Collective.
In this collaborative performance, Browning and McGhee explore the ballad as a form, examining how ballads have conveyed news of disasters and served as vehicles for information transmission.
“Words and phrases, drawn from historical and contemporary emotional narratives of doom, are overlapped and exchanged—does speaking aloud alter meaning, or do repetitions reinforce weight? Perhaps voicing hopelessness can transform it. Maybe language can be loosened, and delivery can communicate something extra, enabling a cracking-open energy mobilised by voices and bodies in shared space muddling their way through this day to the next.”
✅The event will have live captions
✅The venue has step-free access and an accessible bathroom
✅ Noise-reducing ear plugs available
Visit the Exhibition: 7-23 March, Weds-Sun, 12-6pm
16 Collective (formerly 16 Nicholson Street Gallery) is excited to present Ranters, the first solo exhibition by Glasgow-based artist Jude Browning, with a body of work taking the British Ranters—a 17th-century mystical anarchist sect—as a departure point to explore feminist vocality, anti-fascist black metal, and mystical deviance.
Through drawings, performance, and a newly commissioned moving image work, Browning experiments with discordance to examine different modes of speech. Letters from Vivienne draws on personal letters by Vivienne Morton, wife of historian of the British Ranters Alfred Morton, as a lens to explore voices of complaint and rhetorical maximalism in both historical and contemporary contexts.
Featuring a performance developed with Nat McGhee, the work uses various types of song and spoken address to disrupt academic formality with unorthodox refrains from 17th-century heretics, alongside the everyday rhythms of domestic life and reflections on loneliness.
We look forward to welcoming you at our new our new Outer Spaces site at 173 Trongate, once part of Glasgow’s medieval market square, which has a history of public dissent and uprising. Browning’s installation and performance question how such sites are historicised or erased. Audiences are invited to engage with queer-feminist voices and working-class histories, to reflect on how language shapes narratives of public space reclamation in moments of resistance.
By commissioning and supporting the development of new work, 16 Collective continues its dedication to platforming LGBTQIA+, female-identifying, and class-marginalised artists. This exhibition invites reflection on the intersections of dissent, feminist vocality, and social enclosures, foregrounding marginalised voices in moments of resistance.
Access Guide:
Click here to view the access pack. *The subtitled version of the film will be viewable from the second week of the exhibition onwards.