Studio Project proposes “Edinburgh - Multi-Arts Incubator” an exploration of international arts supports increasing relationship dynamics to ensure healthier spaces. This incubator is a collaborative form of environmental scanning establishing interest between people and practices with an international festival context. This work takes the form of discussions, design-building and planning, leading to practices that are more connected, respectful, and sustainable providing the arts with a critical pathway to share as well as new infrastructures leading to a yearly international arts incubator.
With emphasis on artist-festival relations, this incubator activates through pop-up events allowing artists to share skills, participate in professional development activities and engage in various forms of collaborative arts creation under the context of the world's largest arts festival. This month-long intensive accommodates 10 artists to work in Edinburgh and present at the festival. We will be evaluating and building infrastructures to make this incubator a yearly asset for artists and a model that can be shared and disseminated for others to utilize.
Invited artists come to Edinburgh to live and work together forming connections between peers. We have chosen Edinburgh as it guarantees international audience exposure and a wide range of opportunities for presentations and for career building for artists. It is also one of the few festivals that allows registration at no cost, opening options for activations onsite. We are planning on working with the “free fringe” festivals within Edinburgh to make sure our activations are disseminated effectively.
Collaboration is part of our goal building more resilient and sustainable art sectors, focusing on increasing connections and establishing healthier collaborative practices. Preliminary discussions have explored themes for new works in; physical theatre, performance art, installation, experiential soundscaping, circus arts, sideshow, experimental film and co-curatorial writing contextualizing practices. This reveals many ideas will be combined into collaborative presentations that begin but do not end as part of the incubator while others will be presented as scheduled offerings during the festival.
Participants will facilitate processes between multiple parties allowing for benefits to be shared. Committing to this incubator is being part of collaborative events and we ask that everyone state personal goals as mission statements for their practice allowing the group to make constructive offerings towards shared outcomes. This means that when Dann Pigozzo is exploring how professional wrestling engages physical theatre actions as performance art, there will be performance artists and thespians present to guide the process. This may lead to Dann needing theatre training or thespians requiring wrestling training in order to participate.
Explorations allow boundaries to be understood and shared goals to guide development leading to new plans, collaborations and projects. When needs are expressed that cannot be responded during development or accommodated due to a lack of knowledge; this informs next steps for the incubator as we are planning this as a yearly action each August. This is Studio Project’s first international project.
