Artist Development Fund
2023/24 - ROUND1
We received over 30 applications for the first round of our Creative Scotland funded Artist Development Fund. This first round was created to respond to the development needs of artists that Sanctuary had connected with since launching in 2020. We shortlisted 7 applicants, and selected 3 - Lintong, Ivor and Daemon. Each project received a £2000 bursary and was matched with a partner venue, based across Scotland. Find out more about the artists and their exciting development projects…
Ivor Mackaskill
Back In The Saddle
Ivor MacAskill (he/they) is an award-winning trans and neuroqueer live artist and theatre maker based in Glasgow. He creates and performs unique live performances that often weave his autobiography with a love and curiosity for nature and our experiences as human animals. His latest stage work, The Making of Pinocchio, created with his partner Rosana Cade is currently touring internationally.
For his Sanctuary residency, Ivor Macaskill returns to a solo performance he made and toured in 2015 that explored his then butch lesbian identity. This piece, originally created for and with support from BUZZCUT, was a weird and humorous soup of female masculinity, gender stereotypes, Freud’s theory of Penis Envy, biting and talking horses, and lots and lots of carrots.
Ivor is curious to excavate this past work now as a trans masc neuroqueer. How will it be to embody this old material in a new body; what will still feel relevant and what new ideas might emerge?
This development was supported by Theatre Royal Dumfries.
Lintong Zhang
INTERVIEW! INTERVIEW! INTERVIEW!
INTERVIEW! INTERVIEW! INTERVIEW! is a witty and absurd black comedy that delves into the intersections of anti-racism, immigration, queerness, and capitalism, presented through three interviews. We follow the journey of a recent graduate struggling to secure her first job and observe how she becomes corrupted by power. This piece of new writing combines electronic music with Chinese traditional opera to portray the protagonist's sense of isolation, depression, and confusion.
This development was supported by Lyth Arts Centre.
Lintong Zhang (she/her) is a China-born, Scotland-based producer and playwright with a Master’s in Playwriting and Dramaturgy from the University of Glasgow. As an emerging playwright, she was part of the Scottish Youth Theatre textLAB 2022 and Traverse Young Writers 2023. With a profound interest in pushing boundaries, she actively experiments the Chinese traditions and post-dramatic theatre. Her black comedies are quirky and acerbic, on subjects ranging from modern politics to supernatural fiction. A committed advocate for diversity, she joined the feminist theatre Stellar Quines as Board Pioneer and co-founded Play Full Theatre, working to uplift underrepresented voices, especially within the LGBTQ+ and Global Majority communities.
Daemon Clelland
Dæmon Clelland (they/he) is a Scottish Artist working within Live Art, special FX prosthetics, moving image, sound and radio. Interested in the intersection of technology, the body, and climate their work interrogates & confronts patriarchal systems of representation through non-human/post-human embodiment, trans-masculine perspective and trans*formation. For their Sanctuary residency and recent Take Me Somewhere residency they’ve began developing a new Live & video work researching & performing the intersections of labour, desire, and autonomy, online and off. Questioning what are our tools to fight the death of anonymity in this era of perpetual identification, datafication & the rise of fascism.
