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| JOHN McGEOCH |
Given that 2007 is a happening thing it seems to best serve as a focus point to collect and collate work.
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On a funding financial level there seems to be two strands. Strand one is that the vast amount of potential revenue has already been creamed off and the second strand has, by political necessity, been designated to the ground level, the community, in what are effectively very small packages. A very little money trying to do a lot.
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Similarly as there has been virtually no contact, communication, consultation or desire to work with the professional arts organizations in the area from the 2007 body, it really seems up to us on an individual level to decide on our level of input and if feeling optimistic to apply for some of the limited funding routes available to produce either a special piece of work or a programme of work.
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We would like to do both and having a physical base we are working towards utilizing this to provide a year long programme of activity from theatre to installation to film to music.
It will serve as a good marker and will mean co-ordinating all the strands which the company are already engaged upon into one thread. As well as performance based events we would like to host a symposium / workshop on new media techniques in contemporary arts practice, have a summer season of workshops for young people centred around our current strengths and activities, that is video and Blue Screen, drama utilizing new media, aerial and physical work, the visual arts and performance and finally contemporary music and projection.
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We would like to follow up our digital installation piece for the Highland Festival, ‘Tricks of Delight’, with a ‘Tricks of Delight 2’. This will be an interactive promenade type installation with the option of performance built in on some occasions. The work will continue some of the previous themes, contain some of the work created since - such as the Cullen Ceiling which was produced last year for Duff House and will feature some new pieces. It will also showcase the raft of film-making that the company is currently engaged upon.
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We would also like to install a themed environment for children that would run for a month. We produce these environments, which contain just about everything that the company does from drama to making, video and animation to circus, every Christmas for Gleneagles Hotel and have long wished to be able to install them in our home base for local children to experience. If we don`t make it in 2007 then we probably never will.
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We will almost certainly be producing at least one new theatre piece - probably in the childrens/family category and will probably be involved in a couple of other productions with other companies probably not in the childrens category.
We will be looking for a collaboration with a music ensemble or band for projection work.
We will no doubt be continuing our major thrust of small film-making and will top it off with a film festival / Oscars ceremony in December, number 4 by then.
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We are currently talking with the Tartan Heart Festival about creating a much larger theatre tent / presence for 2007.
Basically, like now, I expect that we will be flat out doing exciting, challenging and innovative projects. I also expect many of them will be under-resourced, impossibly deadlined and plagued by bureaucratic nonsenses. Maybe because its 2007 they might be better co-ordinated into a progamme instead of happening whenever, wherever, and sometimes however! Who knows, we may even get on the radar.
Artistic Director, Arts in Motion
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| December 2008 Editorial |
H2007 Evaluated
Posted by Commissioning Editor, Kenny Mathieson, on
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:01:00 GMT |
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