S W E A T — The Sky Leaks I Leak


A workshop series for self identified dykes and trans artists.
Thursday 17 October — Monday 21 October 2019

This workshop series is hosted by the Scottish Sculpture Workshop and the Live Art Development Agency through their DIY program.

Over 3 days at Scottish Sculpture Workshop we will consider collective queer sweat. With no lesbian queer or trans spas and saunas in the UK we generally only experience collective queer sweating in clubs on a night out. These workshops offer an alternative way to sweat and come together, through sauna sitting in the Scottish Sculpture Workshops own on site sauna. This is the time to detox, sweat, listen and breath in a moment of calm and healing. 
We will go on silent walks in rural Scotland, visit the sea, practice automatic writing, drawing, and movement to develop collective scores which will be used for makings ceramic vessels. Our conversations in sauna sittings and on walks will think about the spaces where liquids transform, intermingle and are exchanged, both on the landscape and within our bodies.

Let’s un-straighten, leak, ooze and practice sweating as queer trans dyke resistance. Let’s do sum q u e e r   d y k e s a u n a i n g .

This is a space to raise questions where 
conversation can be casual, 
slow / 
slow e d   d o w n 
leaking from one ear into another 
words can travel lightly 
we’ve been longing for a space to breathe. 
take a deep breath 
on the hill 
in the grass
by the side 
of a stream 
deep breaths 
open pores 
c l e a n s i n g 
these
4 walls 
drip. 
(drop) 
our skin leaks when we don’t want it to 
but what if we ask it to 
open up 
and 
pour.