Compressed and Re-expanded: Three films by Jenny Brady

LUX Scotland are delighted to present a special screening event at Tramway, Glasgow, featuring Jenny Brady​’s work which explores the fragile, intricate mechanisms that shape how we communicate. Brought together for the first time, Brady’s films ​‘Receiver’ (2019), ​‘Music for Solo Performer’ (2022) and ​‘The Glass Booth’ (2025) will be presented with audio description made in collaboration with access worker and accessibility consultant Elaine Lillian Joseph. The screening will be followed by an in-conversation with Jenny Brady and a guest speaker.

This event is presented as part of We Contain Multitudes and will be followed by a workshop with Jenny Brady the following day.

Jenny Brady’s practice is captured distinctly in her three most recent films that explore the limits and possibilities of various modes of sonic, cinematic, technological and interpersonal communication. Bringing together various historic references, archival material, lived experiences and communication technologies, the work confronts multiple subjectivities that emerge from acts and forms of translation, mediation, interpretation and transmission. Highlighted by Brady’s characteristic filmic assemblages where hierarchies of speech, text, definition and language are challenged, the faults and spaces that are revealed by these technologies are uncovered as fragile, vital, often violent and structurally unstable but equally expansive forms of communication. As such, Brady’s films incorporate the perspectives of d/​Deaf, disabled and non-English speaking subjects. These three films denote the beginning of Brady’s engagement with access measures, collaborating with access workers to create open captions and audio description for her work.