BUZZCUT at Forest Fringe // Out Of The Woods Weekender

29th - 30th AUGUST 2015 AT FOREST FRINGE, EDINBURGH

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//BUZZCUT// OUT OF THE WOODS WEEKENDER! With TJB/FKA, Jo Hellier and Yas Clarke, Susannah Hewlett, Eilidh MacAskill, McCulloch & Black, Louise Orwin and Selina Thompson.

We are //BUZZCUT//, a collaboration between two friends and artists based in Glasgow, dedicated to opening up radical new opportunities for the development of experimental performance practice in Scotland. We have presented four annual 5-day festivals and worked with lots of different organisations to create other events year round since 2012.

We are totally chuffed to be working with our good pals Forest Fringe again and to be presenting this exceptional weekend of performance from a group of artists who we have been supporting this year. Half of them are based in Scotland, half of them are from elsewhere in the UK. All of the artists showed early versions of their work at //BUZZCUT// festival in March and then came with us on a residency in the Scottish highlands funded by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. At Forest Fringe some of them will be presenting developed versions of these works, and some of them will be sharing new performances in the same series as the work they showed at //BUZZCUT// festival.

At //BUZZCUT// we believe in investigating and opening up ideas of what live-art can be and who it can be for. These artists bring a diverse and thorough range of practices and we can’t wait to be with them and YOU! Love Nick and Rosana x For ticketing information visit: www.forestfringe.co.uk/edinburgh2015

Friday 28th August The Cutting Room: Selina Thomson - Race Cards 2pm - 8pm

Saturday 29th August The Cutting Room: Selina Thomson - Race Cards 2pm - 8pm The Studio: Louise Orwin - A Girl and A Gun 1pm - 2pm The Studio: Jo Hellier and Yas Clarke - Flood Plans 3:30pm - 4:30pm The Studio: McCulloch and Black - Fermented Ink (Vol.2) 6pm - 7pm The Studio: Scottee - Party Piece (Forest Fringe Programme) 8pm - 9pm The Main Hall: Eilidh MacAskill - STUD 9:30pm - 10:30pm

Sunday 30th August The Cutting Room: Selina Thomson - Race Cards 12:30pm - 6:30pm The Studio: Susannah Hewlett - The Erinsborough Fringe 1pm - 4pm The Studio: McCulloch and Black - Fermented Ink (Vol. 2) 5pm - 6pm The Studio: Jo Hellier and Yas Clarke - Flood Plans 6:45pm - 7:45pm Location TBC: TJB/FKA - 2 < 4 : AIR 7:30pm - 10:30pm The Studio: Louise Orwin - A Girl and A Gun 8:30pm - 9:30pm The Main Hall: Eilidh MacAskill - STUD 9:45pm - 10:45pm

TJB/FKA

2<4: AIR SUNDAY 22nd AUGUST // 7:30pm - 10:30pm LOCATION TBC

dynamic reciprocal endurance of elementally driven actions|meditations dialogue reduced to -controllimpossibilitylfallibility| immediacy|attemptlsymbiosis reciprocity between two bodies as shared experience | environment

TJB - Thomas John Bacon. Male | London thomasjohnbacon.com FKA - FK Alexander. Female | Glasgow fkalexan.de/r elemental | control | action | collaboration 1 < 4

JO HELLIER AND YAS CLARKE

Flood Plans SATURDAY 29th AUGUST // 3:30pm - 4:30pm SUNDAY 30th AUGUST // 6:45pm - 7:45pm THE STUDIO

Flood Plans Jo Hellier and Yas Clarke Dramaturg Alice Tatton-Brown As our environment faces irrevocable change, Jo Hellier and Yas Clarke attempt to reconcile the uncomfortable position of being human in the midst of human-caused climate change. Through subtle and monstrous sounds and small, sometimes violent actions, Flood Plans looks for a way to meet our landscape and understand our place within it.

Jo is an artist working with performance, installation, film and sound. Currently her work is concerned with ecologies in the widest sense, looking at natural ecosystems and comparing them to human structures. She devised Flood Plans with Yas Clarke, an experimental musician and sound designer. They both like work that allows them to see something in a new way or discover new aspects of feelings that they thought they already knew.

Flood Plans was supported by Arts Council England, Interval, Solo Contemporary Performance Forum and BAC. It was presented as part of New Bloods Platform, supported by In Between Time and Bristol Ferment, for IBT15 International Festival of Performance.

SUSANNAH HEWLETT

The Erinsborough Fringe SUNDAY 30th AUGUST // 1pm - 4pm STUDIO

An event for both scene stealers and sofa sitters.

Stuck in an interminable loop of comings and goings, this Sunday omnibus will explore a distillation of some of the most ropey soapy moments. Cliched characters make surprise arrivals; good news discovered, mystery plots uncovered and a disproportionate amount of daytime tragedy is up for grabs in this eye rolling, never ending cycle.

Come to the door. Borrow that cup of sugar. Become part of this insular neighbourly network and see yourself on the telly.

Without you life can't move on.

Filmed & live edited, the show welcomes anyone to take a turn on set - and don't worry there's no lines to learn because noone's bothered to write a script! Or just put your feet up and watch from the comfort of the cosy couch.

Work in development.

Susannah Hewlett is an artist and performer working in live art, comedy, theatre, sound and video. She has performed and screened work for Barbican, Tate, Live Art UK, Loco Comedy Film Festival and at various events in New York. She is a Duckie associate artist. She 's interested in the scarier stuff in popular culture and explores these in videos & site specific shows including the cult comedy horror in a caravan Barbara and Yogashwara's Safe Space. As if having one wasn't bad enough - her alter ego is Chris Titmas. Her community projects extend outwards to many London groups including street based sex workers for Open Doors and patients at St Joseph's Hospice.

EILIDH MACASKILL

STUD SATURDAY 29th AUGUST // 9:30pm - 10:30pm SUNDAY 30th AUGUST // 9:45pm - 10:45pm THE MAIN HALL

Tell, me about it, Stud. Well, Dr Freud tells me I'm missing something and I think he's right. He tells me that until I get over it and turn my desire for that missing thing into a desire for a baby I'm gonna be in deep shit. He also tells me he doesn't really get chicks...

A new performance about penis envy, masculinity, horses and DIY. “A fully-frontal assault…hilarious and whimsical…cogent and provocative” **** Mary Brennan, The Herald

Eilidh MacAskill is based in Glasgow and creates performances and projects that sit somewhere between theatre, live art and visual art inspired by Nature and how we human animals live in the world.

She is Artistic Director of Fish & Game and also works as a freelance performer with other artists. She’s currently being supported by Imaginate to research gender, sexuality and queerness in performance for children. Her work is often for children and often presented in non-theatre sites and public spaces. But this one isn't. www.eilidhmacaskill.com

Two bodies crawl out slowly from the primordial basin surfacing on a white scorched savanna of being. Parched their existence is a twisted unknown, undefined in its origin. They have slipped from our perception as we regard the space they inhabit, that ice plain, dizzying light. That past, that future but already they aren’t nothing. A language is forming deep down in the marrow, an ecology in the microbes and molecules, a relationship of trust and fear. Call it something, call it sound and silence, life and death, hot and cold, love and loss: any can be the case and yet none of these yins and yangs tell the whole story. What we feel, that enveloping whiteness at the edges of imagination, the here and now, is our evolution, a stark and lonely present.

McCulloch and Black often perform solo, creating intermedia works, in performance, dance, installation and writing. Black’s work is visually engaging, precise and plays with poetic though often grotesque, subversive imagery.

McCulloch’s is anarchic and humorous, often involving the audience in constructed rituals.

They have presented work in the UK, Lithuania, Germany and Chile. Fermented Ink is an ongoing project by the duo concerned with the ecology of a duet; it was initially presented at BUZZCUT in 2015 and further developed at the BUZZCUT Residency, supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. www.mccullochperformance.com www.stephanieelaineblack.com

MCCULLOCH AND BLACK

Fermented Ink (Vol.2) SATURDAY 29th AUGUST // 6pm - 7pm SUNDAY 30th AUGUST // 5pm - 6pm THE STUDIO

LOUISE ORWIN

A Girl and A Gun SATURDAY 29th AUGUST // 1pm - 2pm SUNDAY 30th AUGUST // 8:30pm - 9:30pm THE STUDIO ‘All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun’ -Jean-Luc Godard Last year I started noticing girls and guns everywhere. I obsessed over them in pop videos, felt a bit disgusted about them in video games and tried not to see them in hard-core porn. I began to wonder what it was about that coupling that made them so attractive in cinema. And I wondered whether Godard was right.

This is a show about girls and guns. It’s a show that asks two people to take to the stage and play out a film script in front of you. It wonders what the difference might be in watching something on screen and experiencing something live. It is a show that asks what it means to be a 'hero', what it means to be a plot device, and what it means to watch.

This show is a challenge to Godard, every other film which star girls and guns as plot devices, and the audiences that watch them. It is also an admission and manifestation of ambiguity: my own confusion, as a woman, at being simultaneously repulsed and attracted to the kind of imagery and archetypes the show explores.

Expect gun-twirlin’, play-actin’ and Nancy-Sinatra-dancin’.

And me. And you.

Louise Orwin is a live artist, researcher, writer and performer. Her works spans the live and recorded, with incarnations in performance, video and photography. She is pre-occupied with ideas of femininity, awkwardness and masochism.

Her work has appeared in some of the most exciting venues and festivals in the UK and abroad, and she is currently touring her last show Pretty Ugly. More here: www.louiseorwin.com A Girl and A Gun is a Contact and MC Amsterdam Flying Solo commission, and has been supported by Arts Council England, Camden People’s Theatre London, and Buzzcut/The Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

SELINA THOMPSON

Race Cards FRIDAY 28th AUGUST // 2pm - 8pm SATURDAY 29th AUGUST // 2pm - 8pm SUNDAY 30th AUGUST // 12:30pm - 6:30pm THE CUTTING ROOM

65. Are you black, or are you ‘new black’?

170. What is the long term psychological impact of white supremacy on people of colour?

220. My mum does not talk about race any more. It makes her uncomfortable, tired. Will this happen to me?

307. Why do people assume that racism will just passively die out if we wait long enough?

440. Are you angry?

541. What ever happened to Kony 2012?

660. Who is more problematic – famous racist Nigel Farage, or the liberal journalist politely asking him questions?

720. When does it all end?

Selina has 18 hours to ask herself 1000 questions about race, and you have 18 hours to attempt to answer them. ‘thoughtful, generous, brave & unspeakably brilliant’ – Maddy Costa Selina Thompson is an artist and performer based in Leeds. Her work is playful, participatory and intimate, focused on the politics of identity, and how this defines our bodies, lives and environments. She has made work for pubs, cafes, hairdressers, toilets, and sometimes even galleries and theatres, including Spill Festival of Performance, Fierce Festival, The National Theatre Studio, The Birmingham REP, East Street Arts and the West Yorkshire Playhouse.

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