Green Clydeside: Sounding Alternative Futures - River is/as Exhibition Opening
16 Collective, Glasgow, G5 0YX
Saturday 6th June 2026
Join us on for the opening event of our exhibition 𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙨/𝙖𝙨 in Glasgow International 2026 festival, on Saturday 6 June, 5 – 7 pm, on the groundfloor 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). This will be followed by a talk, and discussion between Mbareh, exhibiting artist & researcher 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,” 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 Western leaders 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 at https://16collective.org/access/ and can email [email protected] 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
Free & drop-in welcome but booking encouraged due to limited capacity
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). This will be followed by a talk, and discussion between Mbareh, exhibiting artist & researcher 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,” 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 Western leaders 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 at https://16collective.org/access/ and can email [email protected] 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
Free & drop-in welcome but booking encouraged due to limited capacity
