Take Me Somewhere are thrilled to be collaborating with performingborders on the Live Art Writers Network (LAWN), a network aimed at cultivating experimental writing practices happening in dialogue with performance and Live Art. This project aspires to create a nurturing environment for writers to meet and engage with performance contexts, providing connection, mentorship, and a publishing platform for developing practices.
Responding to a critical need within the sector, this network seeks to provide much-needed space for reflection, critique, and experimental writing on live art, specifically outside of academic contexts. Our mission is to foster creative and critical responses to performance that resonate and respond to conversations happening on a local level whilst linking to transnational critical dialogue on performance, publishing, artwork, labour, and political action.
To do this performingborders will be working with writers whose practice has been shaped by lived experiences of intersectional borders. This includes – but is not exclusively – folks who have experience of migration and also those who have migratory heritage. They work with a definition of border that is open and acknowledges the diversity of experiences at the intersections of cultural, juridical, racial, gendered, class, physical, economic, and everyday borders.
2024 PROGRAMME
In this first pilot year, Take Me Somewhere will support two Scotland based artists to attend Fierce Festival (October 2024), to attend & participate in an a public open gathering on Saturday 19th October at 11:30-12:30, to engage with the festival’s performances, contributing to discussions with the commissioned writers.
This will form the basis of future editions of the programme within our Festival in 2025 Festival.
LAWN is commissioned by performingborders, FIERCE Festival, Take Me Somewhere, CITEMOR, and METAL Culture, and it is supported with funds by Arts Council England and Necessity Fund.
Image Credits: Still from re-seeding, Jade Montserrat, 2020