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Welcome to Portobello
IMAN TAJIK developed a two-year residency project working with Art Walk Projects, beginning in 2020 with a durational performance ‘Where the Body Meets the Land’ on Portobello Beach as part of our socially distanced All At Sea programme. Iman’s own experience of crossing geographical borders fuels much of his practice, with a strong desire to…
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Decorators of Portobello
‘The Decorators of Portobello‘ project was a two-year mult-generational oral history project led by artist, Nicky Bird, working closely with Portobello Heritage Trust and a number of decorators who once worked in Buchan Potteries in Portobello during 1950s/60s. The project sought to make visible previously unrecorded social histories for these women, using oral recording and…
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Future Value
Deirdre Macleod has a longstanding interest in how cities work and how those who live in cities experience them. Her research as part of this two-year residency explores how gesture-based performance might help tell the story of cities. She starts from the premise that movement-based performance is a form of enquiry which can help make…
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Material Land
Jenny’s two-year residency as part of our Landmark series, explored the material land of Portobello, from the local historic clay-pits to the pollutant substances once produced in the post industrial land across Western Portobello. The different works developed across her residency collectively opened up previously untold stories whilst inviting us to reconsider the work and…