Performing the Outside World brings together short films by UK-based artists and performers that explore themes of access to nature. Through simple, shared actions, the films evoke different sensory experiences - of touch and tactility, movement through landscape, shifting colours and textures. They question how elemental phenomena may be experienced when disability and limited infrastructure restrict access, and harness experimental, DIY solutions to negotiate these barriers. The films share a sense of wonder and fascination with the natural world, and joy in the freedom to explore, touch, and interpret these environments.
All films include subtitles for d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing
The title of this film programme is borrowed with gratitude from Abi Palmer’s article ‘A flat-packed forest’ (wellcome collection, 18 October 2021)
Join us on Sunday 4 August at 4pm to hear from artists Abi Palmer, Juliana Capes, Julie Cleves and Robbie Synge about their respective films and the processes behind them.
This conversation will be hosted by Emma Jayne Park. Based in Dumfries & Galloway, Emma is a dancer, theatre maker, collaborator, facilitator, movement director, trainee intimacy coordinator, choreographer, advocate, micro-activist and occasional drag king.
Emma is currently a PushProject.Eu Artist, Associate Artist with the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, and she recently undertook an Associateship with Scottish Dance Theatre/Dundee Rep, supported by the Surf The Wave Seed Generator. Her facilitation practice includes working with Federation of Scottish Theatre, EPAD, Imaginate and IETM.
She has also advocated for freelancers rights as a speaker in Holyrood at the Cross Party Group for Culture. Her work will be done when practices that encourage mental well-being are embedded across the arts sector.
Performing the Outside World brings together short films by UK-based artists and performers that explore themes of access to nature. Through simple, shared actions, the films evoke different sensory experiences - of touch and tactility, movement through landscape, shifting colours and textures. They question how elemental phenomena may be experienced when disability and limited infrastructure restrict access, and harness experimental, DIY solutions to negotiate these barriers. The films share a sense of wonder and fascination with the natural world, and joy in the freedom to explore, touch, and interpret these environments.
All films include subtitles for d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing
The title of this film programme is borrowed with gratitude from Abi Palmer’s article ‘A flat-packed forest’ (wellcome collection, 18 October 2021)
Join us on Sunday 4 August at 4pm to hear from artists Abi Palmer, Juliana Capes, Julie Cleves and Robbie Synge about their respective films and the processes behind them.
This conversation will be hosted by Emma Jayne Park. Based in Dumfries & Galloway, Emma is a dancer, theatre maker, collaborator, facilitator, movement director, trainee intimacy coordinator, choreographer, advocate, micro-activist and occasional drag king.
Emma is currently a PushProject.Eu Artist, Associate Artist with the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, and she recently undertook an Associateship with Scottish Dance Theatre/Dundee Rep, supported by the Surf The Wave Seed Generator. Her facilitation practice includes working with Federation of Scottish Theatre, EPAD, Imaginate and IETM.
She has also advocated for freelancers rights as a speaker in Holyrood at the Cross Party Group for Culture. Her work will be done when practices that encourage mental well-being are embedded across the arts sector.
