Nate Yaffe
Rot Hat

Canadian artist Nate Yaffe is undertaking an Embedded Residecy in September 2024; aiming to make new connections with Scottish artists and support the development of his new project Rot Hat.

About the residency
Rot Hat is a historical fiction, a speculative ceremony to enter the dark forest. With humour and disarming vulnerability, Nate Yaffe taps into the subtle logic of his neurodivergent body to ‘remember’ long lost story fragments, songs, and dances with rotting logs and fruit. He follows their lead, de-composing his body and composting cultural artefacts into new fertile ground. With his hurdy-gurdy, Ben Grossman joins Nate in this quest, and together they reinscribe the ancient bond that joins musician and dancer, hollowing ourselves out to make room for joy and grief. In this Embedded Creation residency, Nien Tzu Weng will explore a set and light installation that will use natural light, 'stained glass' curtains and mirrored sculptures.

About the artist

Nate Yaffe is an experimental dance, theatre and video artist, based in Tiohtà:ke (Montreal) who researches bodily permission and courage through a subversive naïveté and un-correcting the self-censored body. He sees dance as a tool to open possibilities of neuro/corporal divergence, and tap into the subtle logic that binds us all together.

The residency is supported through the Canada Arts Council.
Photography credit: Kinga Michalska