Articulation’s Winter Gathering will explore the role of outdoor arts and festivals in linking people and place, and feature a site-specific arts spotlight from Angus Farquhar. Currently the creative director of the arts charity Aproxima, Angus’ artistic practice spans performance, environmental installation, music production and creating arts-led capital projects.
About Angus Farquhar
Angus Farquhar is a renowned Scottish artist and director whose practice over three decades spans performance, environmental installation, often set in remote locations and music production both playing and composition, alongside creating arts-led capital projects and book production. He is creative director of the arts charity, Aproxima.
The current portfolio includes Glasgow Requiem, a 3-year programme spanning public ceremony, community archaeology, horticultural design, an audio walk, live performance and writing, creating imaginative responses to Glasgow’s mediaeval roots, pre-industrial history and founding mythologies.
Recent commissions include Over Lunan, a landscape performance and radio production, at Lunan Bay on the Angus coastline, set in the sand dunes on the 1.5-mile-long beach and dunes. The performance toured to London for a special concert in the Brunel Tunnel under the Thames.
Through lockdown, ‘An Empty Gunny Bag Cannot Stand’, enabled an entire street in Kelvindale to grow potatoes in beautiful, coloured hessian sacks. The harvest was then donated and a chip shop set up to feed 500 local people at SWG3, one on the only live performances in the city that year. The work was loved by all who took part and won the Glasgow Times Community Initiative of the Year 2021.
‘Dear Europe’ in which Angus performed a personal monologue, initiating a legal process with every European Union minister to be adopted as a ‘second citizen’. It was commissioned by National Theatre Scotland as a personal response to Europe, receiving three 4 star reviews.
Angus Farquhar was founder and Creative Director of NVA , from its inception in 1992 till closure in 2018. This followed 10 years performing as a core member of the radical London industrial music collective Test Dept. He re-initiated the Beltane Fire Festival with the group in Edinburgh in 1988 (to today) the most significant Spring Celtic ritual in Europe.
Ground-breaking NVA commissions included monumental landscape animations such as The Path, Glen Lyon and The Storr on the Isle of Skye. Ghost Peloton, for the Tour de France extended the world tour of Speed of Light, a signature contribution to the Cultural Programme for the 2012 Olympics. Capital projects include founding the Hidden Gardens, Tramway and for 10 years leading the rescue of St Peter’s seminary, the infamous modernist ruin in Cardross.
Winter Gathering 2024
Articulation’s Winter Gathering is an opportunity for us to get together and celebrate the work of the outdoor arts, circus and spectacle sector in Scotland. Join us on Thursday 5 December as we host the event in Dundee for the first time.