BUZZCUT was founded by artists and remained artist led for many years. Carrying forward these founding principles, for the 2023 Festival we have invited two guest curators to help shape the programme & offer their insight. We asked artists who performed in the Festival during previous years, and who have a good sense of what the Festival can offer.

BUZZCUT is programmed mostly by open-call (released in June/July of each year). The BUZZCUT team shortlist the applications which are sent to the Guest Curators, who make the final selection. As BUZZCUT is primarily set up to support the development of experimental performance in Scotland, one stipulation of the process was that 50% of the artists should be currently based in Scotland.

Outside of the open call process, BUZZCUT also programme through partnerships with organisations & Festivals who share our ethos. For 2023 we were delighted to work with Rhubarb Festival, FLAM & Heart & Soul who each curated artists to participate.

If you would like to perform in next years Festival (April 2024), the open call will open in the Summer.

BUZZCUT 2023 Guest Curators

SERAFINE1369

SERAFINE1369 is a London based mixed media artist, performer, writer, bodyworker and researcher working with dancing as a philosophical undertaking, a political project with ethical psycho-spiritual ramifications for being-in-the-world; dancing as intimate technology. Their methodology is intuitive and many-headed, organically extending into facilitation, text, video, installation, sound, healing practices, curation and performance. Their work is underpinned by an interest in the invisible systems and structures that choreograph bodies in life.

SERAFINE1369 is busy with propositions and practices - of dancing, spatial arrangement, sonics and modes of receiving - that counter the tendency towards bodily compression, inflammation and alienation, invited by life in the hostile architectures of the metropolis. This approach acknowledges the cosmic oneness of all things as manifested through the ecologies of relation and the fact that everything is made of the same stuff, whilst being intensely curious about the magic and mysteries of life processes of distinction, variation, cycles, decomposition; movement as it transforms and sustains.

FK Alexander

FK Alexander is a Scottish performance artist based in Edinburgh who’s live artwork is often action based; unrepeatable or infinitely repeatable live life situations. 

These works have frequently involved very loud noise music, fire, destruction of personal property,  and dead female icons. 

FK takes inspiration from obsessions, pop music and a steady diet of antipsychotics and other drugs. 

For BUZZCUT 2023, FK will be excited by artists who are not working in traditional spaces or traditional lengths of time. 

FK will be looking for work that is unrehearsed, that is a risk for the artist. 

FK is interested in work that may be time based, action based, a question mark, the answer to which we find out together in the sacred moment of live art.