Take Me Somewhere are delighted to invite Eve Stainton to Glasgow to undertake one of our Embedded Creations Residencies, where they will be connecting with queer trans and non-binary welders in Glasgow, researching how to incorporate live welding into a performance setting for a new upcoming choreographic project to be presented at Take Me Somewhere Festival.

Welding is potent for me in so many ways- its strong alchemical presence, its extreme theatricality, its capacity for danger/excitement/drama/power/thrill, its sensuality, its brashness.

Eve will be researching ways of constructing and maintaining suspense. How suspense can become the main event, when there is no climax or relinquishing act. Can suspense exist as a state without being in relation to what comes before or after? Suspense, mystery atmosphere and thriller-like tension.

Whilst in Glasgow Eve will also deliver a free workshop.

Dykegeist: Workshop

This workshop is a continuation of Eve’s interest in creating contexts for moving that are non-judgemental and are supportive of queer, trans and marginalised communities. During the workshop, Eve will share some movement practices related to their performance project Dykegeist, which is interested in the 'predatory lesbian creature' and how consent can be managed from this position.  They will also share some new research concerns connected to their new project which will think through modes of holding suspense and constructing thriller like tension.

The session will be guided and may involve touch with another person, this can always be adapted. There will also be moments to reflect and feedback. No previous dance experience is needed

About Eve

Eve Stainton is an artist interested in the politics of uncodeable queer presence and its intersections with race and class. They create multi-disciplinary performance worlds that hold movement practices, digital collage, welded steel, and other invisible forces like waves/imagination/drama, often psychedelic and clashing. Stainton is interested in co-occurence as a way to unravel essentialist thinking, with intent to create more expansive understandings of the lesbian identity, non-gender/variance, and perceptions of the ‘real’.

Notable presentations include: New commission ‘Dykegeist’ for ICA (2021),  Tanz Quartier Wien, Vienna (AT), Le Guess Who, Utrecht (UT), Bergen Kunsthall (NO), My Wild Flag Stockholm (SE) Close Encounters, Copenhagen, (DE), Ridley Road Project Space group show (UK), Paradise Row Projects group show (UK), Venice Biennale performance programme with Florence Peake (2019), Block Universe (UK), The Place (UK), Nottingham Contemporary (UK), Crac Occitanie (FR), Sadler’s Wells Lilian Baylis (UK), La Becque (SE), LCMF (UK), CCA Glasgow (UK), Tangente (CA). Features include AQNB, FACT Mag, Dazed Beauty, Twin Magazine, Art in America, This is Tomorrow. Work for other artists include Anthea Hamilton, Tai Shani, Last Yearz Interesting Negro, Sonia Boyce, Malik Nashad Sharpe, Holly Blakey, Goldfrapp, Vivienne Westwood, Claire Barrow, Art School, Molly Goddard, walking for London/Shanghai/Paris Fashion Weeks.

https://www.evestainton.com/