Studio Somewhere Invites
Studio Somewhere Invites is an experiment in self-directed artist development.
Scotland based artists are invited to recommend leading practitioners from across the world to deliver a workshop or talk they feel would be influential for their own development or make a positive impact on their local artist community.
If you are an artist based in Scotland and interested in nominating an artist to lead a workshop or talk as part of this programme, please email producing@takemesomewhere.co.uk.
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Upcoming
NOW NOT NOW: exploring multi-temporal realities
Rosana Cade, Ivor MacAskill & Tim Spooner
The team behind NOW NOT NOW will invite you to take part in some of our multi-tempo experiments, where scenes happen at the same time, at different speeds, on top of each other. This is an opportunity to experience this performance mode from the inside, with clear guidance and instructions throughout. We will record this so that we can watch it back together during the session, experimenting with speed in the playback.
Saturday 12 September, 10am–1pm
Tamm Reynolds is an artist and drag performer, working across performance, theatre and video, most recently with a sold-out run of Shooting From Below. This workshop focusses on the cost of making work that comes out of your own life and politics. What it takes out of you, what you expect it to do, and what you actually want from it. Tamm is interested in how you keep making work that matters without signing up to be the suffering artist while you do it.
Saturday 3 October, 12pm–4pm
This workshop, lead by Artistic Director Selina Thompson and Associate Director Toni-Dee Paul, is an opportunity to reflect on your practice, what sustains it, the audiences you make for and the structures that hold them. The aim is to build a series of reflections on your work that keeps your practice fulfilling and rich, and is a guiding compass to bring you back to your 'whys' even when you don't know where you'll end up.
Wednesday 14 October, 10.30am–1pm
Archive
Whatever I am / let it be seen
Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin (Italy)
I am called to continue to be with divination as a practice of emergence, in many ways similar to the practice of dancing. Both have to do with allowing, with the subtlelty of listening, with a fetish for energy shifts, how things move and are moved literally. Both have to do with ancestral connection, with being in the presence of the reasons why I am here - with the suggestions that come from them and the subtlety of that language.
The workshop worked with materials emerging from the research on Whatever I am / Let it be seen; a new show in development by Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin. This included elements of movement, writing and looking into divinatory practices (tarot reading, pendulum consultations, connecting to ghosts)
21 September 2024
Radical Anger
Caritia (Germany)
This online workshop explored transformational energies for transformative times. It asked: what makes anger radical? Can we work to change how we see our own anger?
Caritia offered an opportunity to teach and share valuable insights on this complex emotion. The workshop was for anyone who wanted to shift the paradigm and hear alternative and transformative perspectives on and about the emotion of anger and ways to embrace it for change, as well as (radical) empowerment.
17 August 2023
Here and Now
Alastair Maclennan (Northern Ireland)
One of the UK’s most celebrated performance artists returned to Glasgow to deliver a workshop engaged individual, duo/trio and group works involving private/public and social/cultural considerations, using the whole group of participants as a teaching/learning unit. The workshop focused on developing and activating concentration, intention, insight, innovation, flexibility, adaptability and being 'present', moment by moment. As well as ecology of natural environment, there's ecology of mind, body and spirit, interfused, three in one. Our challenge today is to live this integration. Already we're late. Time we have is not so vital as time we make. Time is now.
5 November 2022
What’s Collective?
Public Recordings (Canada)
Toronto based performance company Public Recordings delivered their 3 day workshop exploring strategies in collective working within organising & creative practise.
Using the framework of a co-facilitated workshop, What’s Collective? stages an artistic exchange, through which collective approaches to art making can be shared, questioned, and renewed. The result is a gathering in which participants can more deeply consider their own artistic contexts, and develop new questions and ideas in response to the project’s title.
7-9 September 2022
The Switching
jumatatu m. poe (USA)
Studio Somewhere is delighted to invite New York based choreographer jumatatu m. poe to Glasgow. They will be in residence connecting with local artists and cultural historians, exploring the concept of indigeneity in relation to Scottish land & Gaelic language culture.
This workshop explored their improvisation practice, The Switching, a strategy in immediate evolution. The practice deals with strategic essentialism – through the immediate design of creatures, or ways of being – and working with immediately identifying restrictions/limitations.
23 April 2022