•~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~• - Performance in the gallery
- Tickets
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Free - Drop-in - no ticket required
- Dates and times
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Friday 5th - Sunday 21st Jun 2026
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During Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art ( 5- 21 June 2026), Tramway's main gallery exhibition, •~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~• by Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 , will host a live operatic decomposition by Rae-Yen Song, unfolding across the course of the festival. Performers, musicians, and vocalists will take up Rae-Yen’s sculptural and textile works as instruments and costumes, telling the exhibition’s life-death-life story as a musical communion of humans, spirits, and other species.
Performances will take place in the gallery. They will be free and unticketed.
Performance times
Friday 5 June 8pm (during preview)
Saturday 6 June 4pm
Sunday 7 June 3pm
Saturday 14 June 3pm
Sunday 15 June 3pm
Saturday 20 June 3pm
Sunday 21 June 3pm
Recommended for ages 4+
Young children should be supervised by a parent or guardian.
Tramway and its galleries is wheelchair accessible. Read more information about the building on our Access page.
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More about the exhibition
For •~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~•, Rae-Yen Song has transformed the vast Tramway gallery into a spectral abyss. Drawing on ancestral mythologies, Daoism, more-than-human politics, and science fact-fiction, the exhibition immerses visitors in an eternal night: an entangled ecology of microscopic life, ancestral energy, and environmental flux.
A sprawling creature occupies the gallery, which Rae-Yen sees as an embodiment of tua mak 大眼 – a relative known only through family memory and myth, who drowned at sea in 1950s Singapore. Rae-Yen imagines the watery decomposition of tua mak’s body and its consumption by innumerable others, conjuring tua mak as a dispersed life-system, cycling eternally through continuous change and perpetual migration.
Exhibition opening times
•~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~• will be open daily during Glasgow International:
Friday 5 June, 10am - 5pm, and 7pm – 9.30pm (Preview)
Saturday 6 June, 11am - 6pm
Sunday 7 June, 11am - 5pm
Monday 8 - Sunday 21 June, 12pm - 5pm
(+Open till 6pm on Saturday 13 and 20 June)
From 22 June, after the festival, the exhibition will revert to standard opening times (Wed-Sun).
•~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~• continues until 16 August.
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•~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~• is a co-commission by Tramway, FACT Liverpool, FVU, and Advanced Research Centre at the University of Glasgow; and supported by Thinking Culture, a cultural programme from the University of Glasgow’s School of Culture & Creative Arts.
Funders - Creative Scotland, Arts Council England, and The Henry Moore Foundation.
Image: •~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~• (Tramway, 2025/26). Installation photo - Keith Hunter
Accessibility guides
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Large Print and Braille programme material available upon request.
Some performances may also be BSL interpreted, audio described or have further assistance available. Access information for individual events is included in their event listing.
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Assistance dogs
Assistance dogs are welcome. We can provide a bowl of water for an assistance dog. The assistance dog toilet area is located to the rear of the building.
Assistance dogs are allowed in the auditorium.
Wheelchair access
There is level access to all Tramway spaces and the cafe, with lift access to the upper spaces.
There are designated spaces for wheelchair users in the theatre.
Baby changing
Baby changing facilities are available on the ground floor
Baby feeding
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Parking
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