So, after a long hiatus (I am not the world’s most prolific blogger), an update. I’m currently finalising my notes from the three gatherings of artists, producers, researchers and programmers in Glasgow, Leeds and London. These have been a definite upside of this project – so much positive energy and creative thinking about what we need and what we can do to support performance for small audiences (and more broadly, performance that is quiet or takes time, or otherwise goes outside of expectations of the spectacular). I’ve also had great in-kind support from Take Me Somewhere in Glasgow, Compass Live Art in Leeds and the Live Art Development Agency, who’ve all provided space and contacts.
The process has been quite intense and there’s a lot to take from it. The biggest thing now is how to build on this energy. I think there is scope and demand for a network of people working in this practice – but that needs more resources, and I’m trying to work out how this might go forward. There are also a lot of ideas about resources and support that would be useful, and I would love to find some avenues for taking those forward, but again it requires time and energy that I don’t feel I have at the moment. The other people who’ve been engaged in these gatherings also all have limited time and resources. So there may be a fallow period of thinking/ exploring before we find some ways of building on this work.
