IF YOU'VE SEEN IT YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT

A tree in the Scottish cairngorms, leaves and branches covered in snow with some slight sunlight poking through a grey sky.

Friday 1st September: 4 - 8pm

Saturday 2nd September: 12 - 5pm

Sunday 3rd September: 12 - 5pm

The Foyer, Fairfield Halls

An audio guide leads its listener through a series of images. A character in itself – the guide takes on the role of an unreliable narrator with a shifting tone: at times direct, at points abstractly poetic, and sometimes reflective. These inconsistencies and fluctuations in approach conjure up questions around the ways in which our eyes and our minds often sit at odds with each other – does the audio match up with what our own vision makes of the photographs? How many ways can an image be read? Is seeing really believing or is the old adage flawed?

From “the massive quiet” to the domestic details, Renton renders strange, wonderful and questionable something most of us experience to varying degrees each day; looking. She has woven artworks across different senses which exist as both challenges and invitations, all with an edge that feels manageable. - Elspeth Wilson, Disability Arts Online

Writer and photographer - Ellen Renton

Funders / supporters - Disability Arts Online and the Edwin Morgan Trust

With thanks to AGITATE Gallery and Emily Nicholas

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Access information:

Important access information: Everyone is welcome to this performance. Guide Dogs will be looked after by our volunteers in a separate area due to the artist having a severe, life-threatening allergy to all dogs.

If you would like to attend this performance with your Guide Dog please contact lila@drunkenchorus.co.uk to discuss how we can facilitate this safely.

For this event, the following access provision will be available:

  • Print-outs of poems
  • ​​Poems played through audio headsets
  • This is a relaxed event
  • Step-free access throughout
  • Accessible toilets closeby
  • Audio Describers will be available across the festival to support with guiding, touch tours and describing on an on-demand basis. To book time with a describer for this event, email: lila@drunkenchorus.co.uk

A Wellbeing Hub and breakout space is available within the venue