‘Dualchas’, Peter Marsden, Hector MacInnes and Cal Flyn, for Dualchas Architects. Photograph by Jordan Young. Courtesy of the artists.BOOK HERE ↗
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Aqsa Arif and Hector MacInnes host a day-long workshop at Ardvasar Hall, reflecting on the themes explored in their screening event‘This Fantasy Must End!’. The preceding screening event will take place at Breakish Hall on Friday 7 March and concludes Intentional Pauses (and Unforeseen Gaps) Season 3, programmed by Aqsa and Hector.
Participants are invited to a one-day workshop led by artists Aqsa Arif and Hector MacInnes, digging deeper into the themes explored in‘This Fantasy Must End!’. Walking out from Ardvasar Hall in Sleat, south Skye, we will gather digital and physical materials from shoreline, roadside, pier and woodland. On our return we will use what we’ve found to build fictions and fantasies by montaging sound and image: projecting and manipulating footage we have shot on our phones, and building sonic worlds with leaves, stones and litter. At the end of the day, we will bring our work together as a short cinematic performance, before reflecting on how it might change what we expect to see and hear when we leave the building.
Access
A limited access fund is available to support audience attendance, which can be used for local transport or the cost of childcare, carers or support workers. This fund will be administered on a first-come, first-served basis, so please get in touch as soon as you can. For further information about access please email David Upton (Public Programme Manager) at scotland@lux.org.uk.
Ardvasar hall is wheelchair accessible and has one fully accessible toilet. Car parking is available for about 12 cars with more available a 2 minute walk away. Wifi available.
Aqsa Arif
Aqsa Arif is based in Glasgow. She is an interdisciplinary artist working across film, installation and poetry in which she explores identity disruption, migration and the process of healing through archetypal narratives. She navigates these realms through the lens of her dual identity and experiences of displacement, endeavouring to reclaim and re-imagine pre/post-colonial worlds. Arif has a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art. Recently her work was nominated for the national touring exhibition, Survey III through Jerwood Foundation. She was also awarded a 15-month residency at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum with UAL’s Decolonising Arts Institute, the RSA Morton Award, and Platform: 2023 Early Career Artist Award. Her film, Spicy Pink Tea, won Best Dance film at Aesthetica Film Festival and was nominated for the Young Scottish Filmmaker Prize at Glasgow Short Film Festival.
Hector MacInnes
Hector MacInnes is based on the Isle of Skye. He is a sound artist, researcher and musician with a socially engaged practice. Hector creates with spoken word, sonic fiction, installation, text, tech, music, radio, performance and speculative design, often in collaboration with other artists and a diverse range of communities. Having been born and grown up on the Isle of Skye, his projects are deeply rooted in an ongoing interrogation of belonging, identity, legitimacy and lived experience of the more-than-urban, and he now works with these as central themes across the Highlands, Scotland and the wider UK.
Hector is also working towards a PhD at CRiSAP (Creative Research Into Sound Arts Practice) at UAL, where he is undertaking practice-based research around the concept of the field, anthropocene rurality, and the New Weird.
Between Autumn 2024 and Spring 2025, LUX Scotland is delivering a peripatetic festival in partnership with Dundee Contemporary Arts, the Pier Arts Centre and ATLAS Arts. They have paired six emerging artists to collaboratively programme and co-curate three seasons of screenings and events. These artist-programmers are: Hannan Jones and Miriam Mallalieu; Heather Andrews and Louise Barrington; Aqsa Arif and Hector MacInnes. Working with organisations and artists across Scotland, the programme focuses on collaboration and follows an itinerant model that prioritises sustainability, slowness and access.
‘Intentional Pauses (and Unforeseen Gaps)’ offers emerging artists an opportunity to programme screenings and events as a way to explore and interrogate new ideas in a collaborative and supportive environment. Contextualising concerns within their practices alongside another artist-programmer, the programme will present works by local and international artists to audiences across Scotland. The programme has been supported by programming training sessions by artists Emmie McLuskey and Morgan Quaintance.
LUX Scotland is a non-profit agency dedicated to supporting, developing and promoting artists’ moving image practices in Scotland.
