pharmakon - n:u (melissandre varin) | BUZZCUT Festival
A personal and global tracing of lineages of substance (ab)use. Elements such as soil, whisky, and molasses - echoing extractivism - are juxtaposed with some of their ritualistic usages.
Time & Location
17 Apr 2026, 15:00 – 16:00
Strange Field, 105 French St, Glasgow G40 4EH, UK
About the event
‘The stool of a chief, a statue used for worship, an ancestor’s image, a pipe with tobacco still in it, a comb, a vessel to contain food’ -YOU HIDE ME by Nii Kwate Owoo (1970)
A personal and global tracing of lineages of substance (ab)use. Elements such as soil, whisky, and molasses - echoing extractivism - are juxtaposed with some of their ritualistic usages. Consumption of culture, race, gender, spirituality, religion, and food is questioned in this offering.
With vulnerability and complicity, n:u (melissandre varin) interrogates healing as destruction and destruction as healing.
Credits:
commissioned by Future Ritual // credit: n:u (melissandre varin), On Substance, 2025.