Guerilla Arts Project
Launching on Sunday 8 March with a public performance of
TREAT
Treat:
A performance that explores the development and deterioration of emotion over time.
An interactive experience where audiences and performers share ice cream.
A social experiment.
A beautiful moment to be eaten or shared.
Treat will be performed in various locations throughout the city centre including:
Hunters Square 12.30pm
Teviot Square 1.30pm
The Grassmarket 2.30pm
With more locations to be added or discovered on the day!
Treat is the launch of Creative Electric’s new guerilla arts project supported by Creative Scotland’s Time to Shine fund and Artcore Edinburgh
Join us for performances, ice cream and to find out how you can create artwork for Edinburgh.
Workshops
Creative Electric will be holding workshops that explore visual and performance art inspired by artists that create work on and for the streets.
Street art. Installations. Interventions. Performances. Responses. The work created is up to you.
Workshops will take place on Thursday evenings from 19 March at The Bongo Club and are open to all young people aged 15+. Workshops are free and no previous arts experience is required.
Email Heather at Creative_electric@hotmail.com for more information.
Treat Background
In August 2014 director and theatre artist Heather Marshall worked alongside Kulturhuset and Stoff in Stockholm to create Treat -an exploration into the fragility of 21st century life. Over a period of four hours she aimed to strip away the human protective façade to find a connection with someone, anyone, anything.
Heather is concerned by the exposing nature of many of today’s performance artists work and wants to keep something back for herself. Is this possible when a performer is laid bare in front of an audience over a length of time with only the drip of ice cream to focus on?
Does the façade deteriorate just as the ice cream does?
Whilst Treat was open to all it was aimed at audiences aged 15+ who may not necessarily attend arts events. It was staged in a nightclub space in the main square of Stockholm. Studion had floor to ceiling windows and an open door policy so that audiences could wander in and out or observe from outside.
There was no pressure to stay for any set amount of time, although many did stay for the full four hours. Many of the audience members said that they enjoyed the informal setting which allowed them to visit the cafe, chat to friends and engage with the performance in their own way.
Through her work with Creative Electric Heather aims to challenge how we view theatre. She is excited to create a new version of Treat for Edinburgh with short pop up performances on 8 March and durational performances at The Hidden Door Festival.
