
INCURSIONS is a collaborative project based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, hosting participatory walks in the city as forums for discussion and documentation of neoliberal topographies. In residence for the month of May 2020, INCURSIONS moved out of the city and online, sharing an archive of art and research, created and collected, as well as sharing FROM HERE radio broadcasts each Sunday evening for the month. An archive of the shows can be found here.




TRACKLIST
The End of a Love Affair (Vocal Only Take from ‘The Audio Story’) - Billie Holiday
Them - Nils Frahm
Battle (feat. Lain) [Recorded at For Kpunk, Ormside Projects, January 2019] - Wookie
LondonunderLondon [Recorded at For Kpunk, Ormside Projects, January 2019] - Mark Fisher & Justin Barton
Plays Cornelius Cardew (Part 1) - Ekkehard Ehlers
Ain’t No Weight - Blue Eyed Soul
Quote from Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene - Donna Harraway
Conversation with Abel Shah (Part 1)
Mimetic - Oli XL
Alberto Balsam - Aphex Twin
Conversation with Natasha Eves (Part 1)
Too Much Work Load (feat. Prince Far I & Bim Sherman) - Singers & Players
Curious (feat. Ms.Haptic) - Kode 9 & the Spaceape
The Angels Fell - Dillinja
Conversation with JD Taylor (Part 1)
Feelin (feat. Spin & Taso) - DJ Rashad
Trip to the Moon (Part 2) - Acen
Conversation with Abel Shah (Part 2)
Sean Flynn - The Clash
Conversation with Natasha Eves (Part 2)
my mind like explosions - BFFT
Conversation with Natasha Eves (Part 3)
Life’s a Gas - Kid Ink
Conversation with JD Taylor (Part 2)
Midnight in Peckham - Chaos In the CBD
Red Sex - Vessel
Axolotl - Doon Kanda
Glue - Bicep
Better Place (DJ Trace Mix) - DJ Tamsin & Monk
T_T heartbroken T_T (2015) - AYA (fka LOFT)
3D Anthem (Dubplate) - DJ 3D
Drawn - Little Dragon & De La Soul
Babylon - Splash
love + friendship 31/05/20
For the final FROM HERE broadcast we regressed into the sentimental realms of love and friendship, as political projects and personal joys, as modellings for new ways of being with others, now more than ever! In this final chapter, we’re turning to our own experiences of friendship and community as literal sustenance; the euphorias and the complexities, chatting about collaboration and hosting and new ways of communicating, to gather people into gatherings.
Featuring a conversation with collaborative tour de force, Abel Shah, asking each other, duo to duo, questions about collaborating and communicating, as well as chats with our friends about our own personal, lovely, challenging and deeply important networks, rooted and cemented in personal and political ruptures, in clubs, pubs, undercommons and pop cultures. There's music and memories, love letters to the spaces, times and initiatives that gather us, plus more from Dan Taylor about political empowerment through friendship, ways of forming community and the joys of the confidence produced through it.
With a foundation laid throughout the last three weeks, from abject defeat, into confidence and community, articulated through countercultures and counternarratives in this city and beyond, FROM HERE #4 ties up some loose ends, whilst leaving enough unlaced, to keep the lattices of a network open, from here and into outer worlds.
a new future will not emerge from 'out there' but emerge from right here - from ourselves working on the stuff of our own lives with others. this aim begins with something very simple: friendship and the joy that is produced through it



TRACKLIST
In Every Dream Home a Heartache - Roxy Music
Plays Cornelius Cardew (Part 1) - Ekkehard Ehlers
FEEL - Kendrick Lamar
Quote from The Order and Connection of Ideology Is the Same as the Order and Connection of Exploitation: Or, Towards a Bestiary of the Capitalist Imagination - Jason Reed
Magic Spells - Yank Scally
Echoes Of My Mind - Axel Boemann
Conversation with Archive For Change (Part 1)
Rocksteady - Young Echo
Quote from A Visionary Sense of London - Laura Grace Ford
Animal Style - Demdike Stare
Lionels Dub - Parris
Conversation with Archive For Change (Part 2)
Spit Valve - Paul Rooney
Seven Spheres - Chants
What Kinda Pain Are We Taking About? - Ikonika
I Feel Love - CRW
Conversation with Archive For Change (Part 3)
Dismantle - Andy Stott
Conversation with Archive For Change (Part 4)
I Can Make You Feel Freedom Into Katri (Feat. Pearl De Luna) - Slauson Malone
Kin To Coal - Vessel
Conversation with Archive for Change (Part 5)
Myth - Batang Frisco
Conversation with Archive For Change (Part 6)
Neverlasting Love - East of Oceans
Claim It - Klein
The Clappers - Lukid
Headspace (Ground Control Mix) - Neuroshima
Guided (Broken Home pt. 4) - Gill Scott-Heron & Makaya McCraven
24/05/20
counter-narratives
This FROM HERE broadcast begins roughly where we left off last week, conjuring resistance and confidence through and in communities, exploring how counternarratives can retell histories and unearth alternative stories for our cities to, in turn, retell alternative futures.
our desire, our loves and hates, are already shaped by narratives, by scripts inherited through television and books. We enter into a world already scripted. This means that the scenarios that we imagine, the stories and narratives that we consume, inform our understanding of reality, not in the sense that we confuse fiction with reality, but that the basic relations that underlie our fictions shape our understanding of reality. It is not that we confuse fiction with reality, believing everything that we see, but that the fundamental elements of every narrative, events, actions, and transformations, become the very way that we make sense of reality.

We explore the ways in which art practices can construct new futures in our cities and for our communities, looking to archiving as a method for holding, preserving and presenting the histories forced into forgetting by dominant narratives. Featuring a conversation with the filmmakers behind Archive for Change, an archive based in Newcastle's West End, we trace histories of regeneration and dislocation, addressing the importance and complexities of archival practices. We share more about our work, thinking about the processes of collecting and collaging we engage in as another form of archiving, to disrupt concretised and objective narratives imposed upon communities, space and place.


TRACKLIST
Imperfect List (Andrew Weatherall mix) - Big Hard Excellent Fish
Glass (feat. the Spaceape) - Kode 9
Plays Cornelius Cardew (Part 1) - Ekkehard Ehlers
Quote from Abandon Hope (Summer is Coming) - kpunk
Conversation with poet and writer, Alex Niven
Come Let us (Feat. Gregory Whitehead) - Mark Pritchard
Myopia - xin
Quote from Abandon Hope (Summer is Coming) - kpunk
You Only Dub Twice - Olivier Julien and Floyd Afrika
Conversation with cultural worker, Clare Smith
Mountain (Jam City Remix) - LA Priest
Sunny Stories - Gazelle Twin
Among The Living - Trim
Quote from Island Story - JD Taylor p. 133
The Shock of Hope - Laurence Pike
Milton Keynes - A Taut Line
Idontknow - Jamie XX
Conversation with artist, writer, educator and activist, Susan Kelly
Listen and See as They Take - Klein
Your Body - Ikonika
Quote from Abandon Hope (Summer is Coming) - kpunk
Conversation with writer, JD Taylor
Making Love to Volca - Gavsborg
Elephant Man - Time Cow & RTKal
How Many Ways - DJ 3D
Because You’re Frightened - Magazine
Conversation with artist, writer, educator and activist, Susan Kelly
You’ll Never Walk Alone (Recorded at the Durham Miners Gala, 2012) - Pittington Brass Band
Conversation with writer and poet, Alex Niven
Good Lads, Bad Lads - Jam City
Wooden Bag - Richard Dawson
A reading of Gallowgate from Newcastle Sonnets - Alex Niven
Going Home - Alice Coltrane

care, communities and counter-cultures
17/05/20
This week, we will share conversations and tunes, loosely orbiting questions of care and (counter)cultures, their roles in cities and their affects in forming collective resistances. We trace an unravelling of the future, reciting the time and space from 1960 to the present moment, attempting to conjure the absent collective subject as we go. From under modernist architectures of a welfare state and undoubting civic confidence, through dismantled collective capacities and class war, into the austerity of the present moment, we ask what obstructs a collective capacity to act and care. Through our conversations with artists, writers, archivists and cultural workers, we ask in what ways we can move from the incapacitating grips of fear and into a lucid collective confidence.
Revolving round a personally treasured k-punk blogpost from 2015, ‘Abandon Hope, Summer is Coming’, written in the face of political defeat after the 2015 General Election, we think about the production of resistant and reflexive counternarratives to inhabit and to find solidarity from within
Contributors this week include Alex Niven, author of New Model Island, musician and poet, about 1960s Newcastle, socialist modernism and the blind confidence of T. Dan Smith’s provocative Labour council, as well as Clare Smith, a cultural worker in the city, whose experiences at the turn of the millennium, recounts times of increased cultural outreach, providing a trajectory for where we stand now, scrambling in austerity's schisms. We also speak with author of Island Story, JD Taylor, about communities of care and how they can and must be recognised within a wider patchwork of resistance. We'll be sharing a discussion on the extitution, communities and business as usual with activist, artist and educator, Susan Kelly, who taught us both at art school, instilling a commitment to militant political organisation, foundational to our collaboration and to our friendship.
Undulating roads, walkways, cars and bodies, a pram, a bunch of teenagers, some vertigo, the grandest Central Development Plan, and then some years without history.



TRACKLIST
Our Death / Abject 2 (After Baudelaire) (Recorded at MayDay Rooms, London, 2018) – Sean Bonney
Babylon – Splash
On Vanishing Land – Justin Barton & Mark Fisher
She'll Be Gone – DJ Q
Plays Cornelius Cardew 1 – Ekkehard Ehlers
Conference of the Birds – Dave Holland Quartet
Interview with artist and curator, Rita Aktay
Kelele – Judgitzu
Anna Greenspan quote from Capitalism's Transcendental Time Machine
King (ft. The Ekonda Women) [Ebi Soda Rework] – Ian Simmonds
The Streets Are Empty (ft. Nil00) – Yank Scally
Inheritance – Test Dept.
Open Your Palm, Feel The Dust Settle There – Laura Grace Ford
Mark Fisher quote from Rave: Rave and Its Influence on Art and Culture
Jill Scott Herring OST – Dean Blunt
Masonry Pier – Shelley Parker
The Sky Has a Film (ft. Kit Downes) – Max de Wardener
The Runner – Military Genius
Routine – Skee Mask
Extent – Arca
Stress Ganz – Oli Xl
Raised – IVVVO
Dollis Hill – Lee Gamble
Seaside Sketch 1 – Olivier Julien (with Natasha Eves)
Father I Stretch My Hands – Pastor T.L. Barrett

