micro-residencies
In partnership with the Centre for Contemporary Arts we’re able to offer two Scotland based artists a weeklong paid residency to develop new performance work for 2021. The performances have been delayed due to COVID19, however sign up to our Mailing List for updates.
PAIX
My name is Gillian Katungi, I also go by Paix (pronounced pay). I am a session vocalist, performer, and spoken word artist. I love exploring sound and voice.
My practice is influenced by the power of personal, interpersonal connection, oral storytelling traditions, healing, nature, abstractions, metaphysics (space, time, being, knowing, identity), belonging, and my ancestral heritage.
I plan to make a live performance around identity and belonging, rejection, and reclamation through diasporic experience. I'll also touch on mother tongue, borderlessness, liminal space (the space between and being in-between space) and self-love.
The performance will be a sensory experience bringing together and exploring live soundscape, movement, visual art, and theatre.
kirsty biff nicolson
Drag-Clown Kirsty Biff Nicolson will use the Buzzcut micro-residency to expand their new work and persona Eagle.
Eagle is a meninist, vlogger and self appointed online forum mediator in the “manosphere”. His life’s mission is to convert men to his cause MGTOWN (Men Go Their Own Way Now). He will do anything to recruit new comrades to the cause. Eagle came about through my research into (cis white) men's rights forums advocating for men to separate themselves from society and contact with women.
Eagle recently won a drag king comedy competition where he was crowned ‘Mr Big Bristol’. I will use drag and clown as my lens into understanding Eagle’s world (where gender queer bodies like my own are not invited). I will explore themes of isolation, power, loneliness, toxic masculinity and how the meninist movement has gained traction and legitimacy online. I will use the opportunity to play with the concept of a “live internet forum” and how I can create a space like this as a clown in a lo-fi way. This particular concept feels important to me while we are in lock-down and there is a apparent pressure for artists to digitalise live performance and create #content.
Made possible with funding from Creative Scotland