24-28 November
We Dream Here. We have always dreamed here. Here, we party, rest, move, grieve, and take a breath.
What if, in this time of government and media hostility and diminishing futures for trans folks, disabled folks, we create a space for us to dream collectively about multiple expansive futures?
Kirsty Biff Nicolson (lead artist) invites artists to co-create We Dream Here; a NeuroQueer Cabaret hosted by an ensemble of deliciously deviant neuroqueer performers and artists. Following an initial stage of research and development in 2024, collaborators will return for a further development residency. We will research how we can co-create interdisciplinary ensemble rituals/acts that weave throughout a cabaret, to create an immersive event. We will also develop how our intersecting access needs and access “clashes” can be embraced and inform all stages of creation to performance.
Sharing
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About the Artist
K Biff Nicolson a neuroqueer*, slow, anti-capitalist human living in Leith. Their interdisciplinary practice spans drag, clown, voice, play, performance making, facilitation, and access support. Biff has over 15 years of experience collaborating with learning-disabled, neurodivergent, and disabled artists in their creative processes.
Working with artists at Lung Ha, Biff co-created the Creative Space programme, developing artist-led ways of exploring creative practice online. Biff loves to make DIY drag and clown work, and have devised, hosted, and programmed queer cabarets on shoe-string budgets, working with Dive Queer Part, Clown Cabaret Scotland, Surge, and as one half of the anarchic drag-clown duo Oasissy. Biff is an experienced facilitator; they have facilitated drag workshops for Shutup and King, performances with Garvald Edinburgh and Anatomy, and co-created play spaces for Independent Arts Projects. Biff is passionate about pleasure, play and neuro-queering* spaces by and with dissenters and deliciously deviant performers.
*Engaging in practices intended to undo and subvert one’s own cultural conditioning and one’s ingrained habits of neuro-normative and heteronormative performance, aiming to reclaim one’s capacity to give more full expression to one’s uniquely weird potentials and inclinations. – Nik Walker, PHD
Collaborators
Chloe Lyth (IAP General Manager) Eilidh Gaze (IAP Access Support) Frankie Mulholland (Dance and Sound Artist) Himish Macbeth (Artist) Lou Brodie (Access Collaborator) Luke Pell (Artist, Dramaturg) Max Alexander (Artist) Mhari Robinson (IAP Executive Director) Nelly Kelly (Artist) Nikhita Devi (Artist, Dancer) Nik Paget-Tomlinson (Technician)
Links
K Biff Nicholson Website
Independent Arts Projects Instagram
Independent Arts Projects Website
Independent Arts Projects (IAP) are generously supported by Creative Scotland