The Centre For The Less Good Idea and Take me Somewhere (Glasgow, Scotland) announce an exciting new partnership,The Centre of Somewhere: Johannesburg | Glasgow. This is an embedded, connective residency project designed to explore new ways of doing, making, connecting, befriending and building international networks.
From Sept 2022 - March 2023, this major international exchange will support four performance makers, two from Glasgow and two from Johannesburg, to create and innovate across both geographical locations exploring new ways to build relationships between artists, audiences and communities in an embedded approach.
The four artists selected for this exchange are Thulisile Binda (South Africa), Kaldi Makutike, (South Africa), Christian Noelle Charles (Scotland) and Nussatari (Scotland).
Thulisile Binda (South Africa), Kaldi Makutike, (South Africa),
Christian Noelle Charles (Scotland) and Nussatari (Scotland).
Spending time in both locations, the artists developed their creative projects, met with local artists, experienced the city and its surroundings and shared their practices in order to build new, long-term connections and lay fertile ground for their project’s future life.
Christian Noelle Charles (left) and Nussatari (right) at The Centre.
While in Johannesburg, Nussatari and Charles attended exhibitions, met with local artistic producers and practitioners, attended dance workshops, collaborated on printmaking processes, and more. Each artist also utilised The Centre spaces to explore their independent artistic practices.
The Centre of Somewhere: Johannesburg / Glasgow is Funded by the British Council’s International Collaboration Grants, which are designed to support UK and overseas organisations to collaborate on international arts projects.
Project Partners:
Take Me Somewhere
Take Me Somewhere is an International Biennial Festival and year round sector support organisation that exists to position Scotland as a place to create and experience radical performance. Building on the legacy of The Arches arts venue, following its closure in 2015, Take Me Somewhere provides a crucial support structure and platform for Scotland’s most vital artists, and showcases some of the world’s most cutting-edge contemporary performance makers. The festival - which has innovative performance at its core - acts as a connector between people, work and ideas, and is inspired by the talent, energy and voracity of Glasgow’s arts community. It’s a space for crucial, diverse voices from Scotland and abroad that take us somewhere in our personal and collective journeys, understanding the globalised and multicultural world we live in; voices that allow us to consider where we are now and envisage what a future somewhere could be.
