A big-scale inflatable sculpture celebrating radical kindness and queer id takes over a Glasgow purchasing centre. A difficult work exploring date rape and femicide sees the creator fall unconscious mid-performance. A solo-scent opera exploring ecological dystopia fills Tramway’s major stage with curated and handmade smells.
A solo performer sits atop a vibrating 6ft platform in a chunk that appears at privilege and hypocrisy. A one-on-one immersive audio piece takes place in Glasgow’s Mitchell Library. Live welding and brash sensuality discover lesbian and trans-masc identities. A sinking into the darkness of the tumultuous night time, delves into cruising as a relational, sexual observe.
A piece has an post-mortem of the Western stage and its entanglements with capitalism and coloniality. A documentary-style piece takes audiences to the depths of the ocean, the place commerce and activism collide in an intimate portrait of sea mining. A durational sound conflict, demise match with two Scottish Hardcore bands explores destruction as a means of holding resentment.
The worldwide, biennial pageant is thrilled to announce a programme of radical work from a number of the world’s most cutting-edge up to date efficiency makers. Exploring themes of connection, incapacity, ecological points, date rape, femicide, post-colonialism, queerness and racial id, the programme will ignite town’s levels and take over public areas.
This 12 months, Take Me Somewhere embarks on a strand of programming centering artists from South Africa, in partnership with the British Council. The pageant additionally has a concentrate on accessibil[1]ity for blind and partially sighted audiences with creatively built-in visible description, including to the organisation’s dedication to inventive accessibility in efficiency, with many reveals BSL Interpreted, Captioned & having wellbeing assist out there.
As ever, Take Me Somewhere exists to place Scotland because the place to create and expertise radical efficiency with work from native, nationwide and worldwide artists.
Upon asserting the complete programme, Artistic Director LJ Findlay-Walsh stated: “We’re delighted to current our first in-person pageant since 2019. As ever we’re working with a number of the most radical and important minds of our era, artists who add to or bother our understanding of the world in ways in which encourage and exhilarate. We are presenting work throughout town, every thing from the joyful and sensual to the difficult and meditative.
The pageant contains artists from the world over however there’s something about its spirit that makes it completely positioned in Glasgow. We have audiences who’re voracious for brand spanking new experiences and open to unravelling the nuances of what they’ve seen and heard.
Take Me Somewhere is artists and efficiency however it’s additionally the group that rises round it and the dialogue that exists within the in-betweens. It’s this that takes us someplace, fostering a collective perception into the right here and now.”
For the complete programme, extra info and to ebook tickets go to tickets: https://takemesomewhere.co.uk/
