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. This year, we’re delighted to host the event in Dundee for the first time. Join us to hear about new projects from: Art Night Dundee, Craig McCorquodale, RIG Arts, Saffy Setohy, Deveron Projects, Julia McGhee, CityMoves and Generator Projects.
Art Night Dundee
Art Night Dundee is an evolving organisation, born as a legacy to the national biennial festival Art Night that was hosted in the city in 2023.
The Art Night Dundee team are working collectively to explore new models for artistic support and production in the city, aiming to reconfigure the festival approach while maintaining a focus on artistic activity in the public realm, making space for international critical perspectives and collaborating with artist-led projects and organisations across the city.
Projects Art Night Dundee have undertaken since their conception include The North Carry On Up – a newly commissioned public artwork by Dundonian artist Inefficient Solutions, developed and delivered in collaboration with the city’s community of artists and arts workers – and a research project exploring contemporary art festivals situated in non-traditional cultural centres.
Craig McCorquodale
Craig McCorquodale is an artist based in Glasgow, seeking to challenge what theatre can be and how far the stage can go in presenting real life. His enduring interest is collaborating with people who might never have done anything like this before, inviting unusual constituencies of people into unforgettable artworks. He thinks of this as Social Sculpture: working with the experience people have of their own lives to create genre-defying, era-defining performance events.
In recent years, Craig has made work in large theatre spaces, swimming pools, libraries, city parks, churches and construction sites, working with children, policemen, ballroom dancers, builders, a 100 year-old, an embalmer and a town crier.
He is currently developing a new site-specific project for town squares, Landmark, exhibiting the private lives and everyday actions of local people on a large-scale scaffolding structure in public space. Craig is also working with Factory International on a new project, as well as continuing his ongoing work, Questions of Democracy – a 24 hour durational work where 24 texts or interventions are installed in public space each hour of the day.
Craig has been Commissioned by and worked with a number of leading venues and companies, including National Theatre of Scotland, Wunder der Prärie Festival and FABRIC. He was awarded the Jerwood Live Work Fund in 2021 and the Jerwood New Work Fund in 2023.
RIG Arts
RIG Arts is a socially engaged arts charity who connect artists and communities to affect positive change in: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Access, Regeneration, Climate, and Heritage. We improve lives through inclusive access to high quality arts opportunities in the most deprived areas in Scotland – ensuring all people can access the benefits of culture, creativity, and community.
RIG is passionate about using creativity, innovation, and collaboration to make a positive difference in people’s lives and environments through co-designing and delivering a dynamic programme of arts, film and music projects; workshops, experiences, exhibitions, public artworks, community spaces and events. Our work is deliberately expansive, designed to appeal to a wide range of audiences, participants and communities. However we focus on those in challenging circumstances and/or most likely to face barriers to cultural opportunity. A grassroots approach, embedded in the communities we serve, continually informs the organisation’s approach. This year’s Winter Gathering is a great opportunity to highlight RIG’s commitment to reimagining towns and cities as inclusive spaces for connection, transformation, and celebration of heritage through the arts.
Saffy Setohy
Saffy Setohy is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, choreographer and facilitator from a dance background. Working in varied contexts, her practice explores connections between ecology, regeneration and soft activism. She works with somatic and sensory practices, collaboration and emergence as guiding threads through her practice, which often happens in deep relationship with place. Recent work includes; Bodies of Water, a participatory performance exploring our relationship with this live-giving element; Sharing Cowlairs, a community regeneration project with visual artist Margaret Kerr, exploring responses to “vacant & derelict land” in Possilpark, North Glasgow; Garden Series, a collaboration with dance artist Claire Pencak in hospital gardens, researching healing connections between people and plants; Remembering Together, a community project in Stirling exploring pandemic recovery through connection with nature & seasonality. Saffy recently enjoyed performing in Return, a ritual theatre piece by Lisa Fannen, celebrating the wheel of the year.
Deveron Projects
Deveron Projects is a socially-engaged arts organisation based in Huntly, a rural town in North-East Scotland, for 29 years. We build deep and meaningful collaboration between artists, communities and places through the process of making art. Our ambition is to make place-based artworks that build social movements, realise self-determining communities, and tangibly intervene in the complex and urgent issues impacting our town.
Matthew Evans joined Deveron Projects in 2021. As Co-Director he leads on the organisation’s operations, finances and management of our buildings. Before moving to Huntly with his family, Matthew ran a theatre company in London and worked for several years as a freelance theatre director around the UK and other parts of Europe.
Julia McGhee
I am a dance artist who works across choreography, performance and participatory practice. I’m interested in working with movement, the body, objects and materials that can reflect elements of the environment, history and people I see around me. My practice involves walking and wild swimming, gathering video and audio material, as well as found objects, stories and history from people locally. I collaborate with other artists from interdisciplinary fields to create live indoor and outdoor performance, digital/multi-media projects and community engagement events. My current performance work The Morrich began life as a multi-art form investigation into the landscape of Morrich More – an area of land near my home in the Highlands.
juliamcghee.co.uk | @juliamcgheedanceartist
CityMoves
Citymoves Dance Agency serves the North East of Scotland and has spent the last 37 years leading positive impacts in the region through dance. Citymoves offers programming across four core pillars: Dance for Health, Dance for Communities, Dance for Education, and Creating Professional Pathways. They host more than 20 weekly classes in their studio, work in partnership with schools, care homes and community groups to deliver a range of projects and activities, and offer professional classes, artist residency programmes, and workshops throughout the year. They are dedicated to sharing the joy of dance by providing classes, creating performance opportunities, and producing as well as promoting new dance works. This includes their annual DanceLive Festival and various performances at festivals across Scotland each year.
Generator Projects
Lewis Cavinue (He/Him) is a visual artist and creative practitioner based in Dundee, originally from Motherwell. Through his practice and role as a committee member at artist-run initiative Generator Projects, he explores the intersections of social critique and collaborative, community-driven projects in contributing to the emerging artists in Dundee.
Generator Projects is a dynamic, vibrant exhibition and events space in the heart of Dundee. Founded in 1996, more than 25 years later Generator still operates in the tradition of ARIs (Artist Run Initiatives): non-profit, collaborative, grassroots, membership-based spaces that exist to foster and sustain creativity and participation in the arts. These peer-led spaces play a pivotal role in the arts ecosystem, and in engaging local communities. Generator is the second-oldest artist-run space in Scotland, and the oldest in Dundee.
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.