Arm’s Length Government Body – Shona Macnaughton

08.10.2016

Arm’s Length Government Body is a new performance work by Shona Macnoughton which takes as it’s starting point the unique conditions of property in which Céline finds itself, drawing attention to the space as a private dwelling house which can never be owned by its occupants. The audience will bear witness to an intimate contractual arrangement as they are taken through heart warming scenes of domesticity. Tones of care will create new grounds for eviction.

Shona Macnaughton (b.1983, London) She is currently based in Glasgow and gained an MFA from Edinburgh College of Art in 2009. Recent projects and exhibitions include: The Universal Schoolgirl (2016) performed as part of the Jerwood Staging Series, Jerwood Space, London and ‘The Scottish Endarkenment. Art and Unreason. 1945 to Present’, Dovecot, Edinburgh, When Slaves Love One Another, It’s Not Love (2014) commission for Edinburgh Art Festival, with Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (2014) and Accept the mystery! (2015) performance project with Eastern Surf, at Hangar, Barcelona and The Northern Charter, Newcastle.

Photography: David Excoffier