We are excited to announce that Stacy Makishi will be leading the SSW x TMS DIT here in September and we are currently calling out for participants to join the Camp Fire Disco!
Camp Fire Disco! is a 3 day residential led by Stacy Makishi at Scottish Sculpture Workshop. It offers people interested in Live Art and performance time to connect, with themselves and with each other.
In Stacy’s words:
Doom & despair is everywhere. The question isn’t whether we’re facing the edge; the question is how do we make it meaningful?
The Answer: Campfire Disco!
We need to gather. Now more than ever. We need to turn towards each other; make good and bad art; laugh, cry, swear, pray, bear witness; dance badly; forgive; make our curiosity larger than our fear; remember that there’s something larger than ourselves.
How? Campfire Disco! For more information about Camp Fire Disco and to apply to join please head over to the Live Art Development Agency’s website here.
About
Stacy Makishi is a transplant from Hawaii who found paradise in Dalston, London in 1993. Stacy believes in art’s transformative power and strives to share her creative process with others in order to put more aloha into the world. A cross-fertilization of live art, theatre, comedy, film and visual art, her work ranges across stage performances, large-scale participatory projects and intimate one-to-ones. It is as complex as it is accessible, humorous as it is challenging, visual as it is literate.
Made with a strong collaborative ethos, Stacy’s solos have been presented across Europe and beyond, including TATE Modern, Southbank Centre, Royal Albert Hall, Traverse Edinburgh, BRUT:Vienna, Estonia Academy, Mladi Levi, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and La Mama New York. Her large-scale participatory works include Wellcome Collection commissions and works with Contact Young Company, Manchester.
About DIT
DIT reimagines LADA’s flagship programme, DIY, which ran unique professional development projects BY artists FOR artists from 2002 to 2020. For 2026, LADA reactivates the programme as Do It Together (DIT) in line with a renewed focus on co-learning. SSW has partnered with DIY (the programme set up prior to DIT) for 4 years and supported the following projects:
- DIY 14 with Peter MacMaster
- DIY 15 with Project O
- DIY 16 with Reed Rushes
- DIY 17 with Gordon Douglas
About Take Me Somewhere
Take Me Somewhere is an international, biennial festival and year-round sector support organisation that exists to position Scotland as the 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.
