Take Me Somewhere

Dispatch from Studio Somewhere! 🗞️ We welcomed Peilin Shi @puoilim_shak into our artist space to develop a work that reconfigures the Southern Chinese Hakka ritual Bridal Wailing 哭嫁 Peilin used the time to explore how this communal practice, part farewell, part protest, might speak to contemporary experiences of displacement, belonging, and precarity. She transformed the studio, with rich textiles filling the space. Guests were drawn into the performance as Peilin tested how participation could influence and inform the work 🧶

Dispatch from Studio Somewhere! 🗞️ We welcomed Kfir Lapid-Mashall @kfirlapid into our artist space to develop Arab Daddy بابا عربي. Kfir used the time to play, working through movement, voice, and percussion to develop the tone of the work. He experimented with sensory elements like mint leaves and mint water to draw audiences into Arab Daddy’s world, as well as with the use of mirrors and sheer textiles to capture their act of spectating. It was a time of intensive and generous collaboration, with a vocal coach (@majd_asadi ), belly dancers (@nancyahmar_dance and @yotakallini ), and a percussionist (@laurie_drums ) all contributing to the work with Kfir in the studio. We can’t wait to see where Arab Daddy بابا عربي goes next! 🌿

🗞️ Dispatch from Studio Somewhere: Do It Together edition! As part of @thisisliveart ’s Do It Together (DIT) project, we collaborated with @glasgowbuzzcut to host Gillie Kleiman’s project Disciplined. As part of the project, Gillie and a cohort worked together over BUZZCUT festival - they dug into the assumptions around Discipline: with conversation, hands-on experimentation and spending time with the amazing BUZZCUT programme together. Gratitude to everyone who brought their (undisciplined!) thinking, honesty and generosity to the project. ::: 
Photography by @tiumakko

Dispatch from Studio Somewhere 🗞️ Last week, we welcomed Bea Webster @byumblebee to our artist space! Bea used the time to develop a performance based on their experience as a Deaf person in the cochlear implant department, where the BEEP of the testing process becomes an abstract entity which Bea must interact with. They enlisted Benedetta Zanetti @benny_zanetti to collaborate in the residency time. With all its loudspeakers and teddy-bear ears, we can’t wait to see how this project shapes up! 📢🐻

🐝✂️ We’re so excited for BUZZCUT! @glasgowbuzzcut (15 - 18 April) have announced their line-up, and it is PACKED with joy, rage, movement, daydreams and other experimental performance goodness. We especially recommend catching the two recipients of the Emerging Artist Award - these performances are the culmination of over a year of funding, residency space and mentorship. ⚡ Charneh Watson: Rage & Euphoria A participatory live art performance exploring rage as catharsis. You’ll be invited into an intimate space to process and release emotions, guided by live music and concluding in a shared ritual of renewal - not to be missed. @cjfrizz ⚡ Marios Ento-Engkolo: Dualism A dance work exploring polarity. Marios draws on African diasporic dance styles and a soundscape blending electronic music with Greek folk. It’s going to be a powerful work reflecting on both tensions and possibilities. @marios_laugh There’s so much more to explore across the programme! Find the full line-up and book tickets (all sliding scale) via @glasgowbuzzcut We’ll see you there 🫡

Announcing our 2026 Studio Somewhere Residencies! Following our open call, we’re delighted to announce the artists that we’re supporting through funded residencies, as well as a peek at their projects: 🌀 Bea Webster @byumblebee Bea will explore their experience as a Deaf person in the cochlear implant department through their relationship with the BEEP of the implant testing, confronting ableism in the medical world. 🌀 Kfir Lapid-Mashall @kfirlapid Kfir will develop Arab Daddy بابا عربي, a solo performance investigating their personal archive and family history. Incarnated as Arab Daddy, he desires a queer experiment in masculinity: one that is shaped by family, culture, and expectation. 🌀 Peilin Shi @puoilim_shak Reconfiguring the Southern Chinese Hakka ritual of Bridal Wailing (哭嫁), Peilin will investigate how emotional connection can emerge when language is partially or wholly untranslated through repetition, mistranslation and vocal exhaustion. 🌀 Sweætshops® @swextshops 🥳Party 🥳is a new work in progress by Sweætshops® asking: is democracy doomed to be a popularity contest? The residency will be divided into experimental components aligned with the Scottish parliamentary elections. 🌀 Belladonna Paloma @belladonnapaloma Developing HEADLESS, a new work inspired by the iconography of headless female saints combining live instrumentation, Belladonna will use the residency to explore choreographed movement, sung narration and sculptural props. We’ll be sharing more about each artist and project in the coming months. Follow the link in our bio for the full announcement.

Remember last October when we asked you all to fill out a survey (with the gentle incentive of winning some cash?) 💸 Well, we’ve finally picked four lovely winners by random draw! Yes, we’re a little late (it’s been a hectic time…), but revisiting their responses gives us a perfect excuse to reminisce about last year’s festival. Here are a few of our favourite quotes from the winning entries ✨ Thank you to everyone who took the time to fill out our survey, we can’t wait to welcome you all back next year! ::: Images from Take Me Somewhere 2025: 1. Lukas Avendaño, Bardaje. Photography by Brian Hartley. 2. Robbie Synge and Christine Thynne, These Mechanisms. Photography by Brian Hartley. 3. MEXA, The Last Supper. Photography by Brian Hartley. 4. Tiziano Cruz, Wayqeycuna. Photography by Nereu Jr.

🛞 We’re excited to announce that Eve Stainton is the recipient of a New Dimensions seed commission! Eve @evestainton will be developing a new performance exploring working-class masculinities, manual labour and community building. The development begins with residencies exploring the physical labour of bricklaying as choreography, working towards a group performance hinging on building and dismantling of a brick wall.  New Dimensions is a partnership between @attenboroughctr @batterseaartscentre @tmsomewhere @glasgowtramway @transform_leeds – formed in 2023 to support artists to take the next step in their careers and create ambitious new work of scale designed to tour nationally and internationally.  This seed commission allows Eve to take the initial steps towards making a large-scale work, through a 5-week residency and support.  The first residency will take place in Glasgow on 16-20 February at Studio Somewhere, with further development planned across 2026. ::: Image credit: Eve Stainton, The Joystick and The Reins, 2025. Courtesy Transform. Photo: JMA Photography

Do It Together projects, Open Call! 📣 We’re excited to be part of two open calls for artists to join these amazing projects from @thisisliveart ’s Do it Together programme. 🪩 Stacy Makishi - Campfire Disco! @scottishsculptureworkshop x @tmsomewhere This open call is for anyone interested in interdisciplinary performance making and live art. Take part in a three-day residential led by Stacy Makishi, to “make good and bad art; laugh, cry, swear, pray, bear witness; dance badly!” 🔥 Gillie Kleiman - Disciplined @glasgowbuzzcut x @tmsomewhere This open call is for artists working at least some of the time in the sphere of Live Art. The activities will take place during BUZZCUT 2026, giving participating artists the chance to spend their days thinking, making, and experimenting together with Gillie, and their evenings diving into performances across the festival programme. 📅 Deadline for both calls: February 23 Full details and how to apply at the link in our bio!

📣 Apply to take part! 📣 We often talk about Live Art and experimental performance as not belonging to any discipline. Nonetheless, we are still engaged as a field in various infrastructures and frameworks belonging to one or more ‘disciplines’ of artistic practice. We will explore ways in which relating to existing disciplines can be a curse and an opportunity. 📅 Wed 15 - Fri 17 April 📍Glasgow 👯 This DIT is for artists working in the sphere of Live Art. 📅 Deadline - Mon 23 Feb, 6pm 🔗 Check out the link in bio to find out more! 📷 Gillie Kleiman and Greg Wohead, Familiar. Image Manuel Vason 📷 Gillie Kleiman, courtesy of the artist

Thresholds of Care by Huss, new commission in collaboration with @tmsomewhere out TODAY! 🌬️ This October, Glasgow based artist HUSS attended Take Me Somewhere Festival as a part of performingborder’s Live Art Writers Network. Working in dialogue with writer and artist Diana Damian Martin’s explorations of nonconforming criticism, they explore their journey through the city and how liveness can enter and shape writing practices in relation to performance. Check your inboxes or access through the link in our bio 🔗🔗🔗🔗 HUSS | @huss.ac is an Arab multidisciplinary artist, performer, filmmaker, and programmer based in Glasgow. His work tackles memory, and exile, weaving together personal and political narratives that confront themes of displacement, censorship, and survival. Moving fluidly between film, performance, moving image, installation, sculpture, and sound, his practice creates spaces where fragmented histories and silenced voices can be heard, challenging dominant narratives that often overlook Arab and diasporic experiences.

✨Open Call: Studio Somewhere Residencies 2026 We’re offering Scotland-based artists time in the (new!) TMS Studio, a bursary, producer support, and a budget for collaborators. These residencies are made to give you the space, time and care to develop a new experimental performance project. We’re looking for practitioners working in experimental performance with a track record of rigorous work and a new idea that’s ready for a focused burst of development. 🚨 Application deadline: Midday, 9 January 2026 📅Residencies run: March - June 2026 Read the full brief at the link in our bio and apply via written or video format. If another application method is more accessible for you, email us at [email protected] ::: Images from residents: Shawn Nayar (2024), Antie Schupp & Kieron Jing (2025), and Lauren La Rose (2022). Quotes are drawn from previous residents and are not specific to the artists pictured.