Document Glam Rock Dialogues: 3 - Luxury

GRD3 is a dialogic performance between David Archibald and Carl Lavery from the School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow. It is an attempt to “perform thinking” in front of a live audience. The pair mix Brechtian techniques with a glam rock aesthetic, responding to the issues and themes raised in La Commune (Paris (1971), a six-hour long film about the Paris Commune. Carl and David, two fading glam rockers trying to get their band back on the road, will explore commune as a theoretical concept, the specificities of the Paris Commune and its lessons and afterlives, the role or radical art and culture, and then think through what communism might mean in a twenty-first century context.