NEW SHOW IN DEVELOPMENT
I COULD EAT A HORSE is a brand new project that explores the personal narratives and the political tensions of the food we grow, buy, ship and eat.
Current areas of inspiration for this project are wide-ranging; spanning from dystopian visions created by imminent global food shortages, the history and power of food and fasting as a political act, the impact upon individuals of corporate-led intellectual property over crops and seeds, society’s total reliance upon intensive farming, to the almost comic societal obsession with obesity-v-starvation.
In 2011 we carried out two short Research and Development periods:
In July we spent a week in at The Tron developing some initial ideas and responding to our research. Our first sharing was a great success.
In August we spent three days at The Woodend Barn in Banchory, interviewing local residents about their relationship to food.
In 2012 we have interviewed more people and in July we will be undertaking an extended R&D period, splitting our time between the Woodend Barn in Banchory and the Tron in Glasgow. This R&D period will culminate with a public work-in-progress at the Tron on July 20th and 22nd.
This project is currently being supported by Creative Scotland and Oxfam Scotland.
We plan to tour the full production across Scotland in Spring 2013.
Watch this space for future developments.
