Scottee: I Made It
Published by the Live Art Development Agency, 2018.
200 pages, colour images included throughout.
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Artist and weirdo Scottee is celebrating 10 years of making a mess, causing a fuss and getting ideas above his station with two new publications in collaboration with LADA – The Outsiders’ Handbook, a free survival guide for queer and trans* young people, and Scottee: I Made It, a swanky archive book documenting a decade of making it.
Scottee is an artist, performer, event maker, activist, host, broadcaster, self-proclaimed weirdo, troublemaker, and firestarter, and more. Many things to many people, he works across a lot of different social agendas – especially queer, fat and working class activisms – and makes lots of different things with all kinds of people, from doing pop-up performance in queer clubs, to staging shows in proper theatres, to gathering folk to talk, to drink tea, and make stuff in community centres.
"a fascinating, wonderful, open hearted and thought provoking book.”
Scottee: I Made It celebrates Scottee as a maker, and marks both the achievement and the influence of his work, but the fact he not only survived the violence and traumas so much of his work depicts, but thrived.
Scottee: I Made It is published by LADA and designed by Alexander Innes.
Contributors
Scottee: I Made It gathers commentary and interviews from a huge range of people Scottee has worked with and knows and who have influenced him and been influenced by him. Contributors include Bryony Kimmings, Travis Alabanza, Kelly Green, Patrick Fox, Charlotte Cooper, Selina Thompson, Ashleigh Owen, Munroe Bergdorf, Michael Segalov, Lois Weaver, Ben Walters, Chris Goode, and Sarah Gallagher, aka Scottee’s mum.
Events
It was launched at events at LADA, London on Thursday 6 September 2018 and HOME Manchester on Thursday 13 September 2018.
Scottee: I Made It is part of Scottee 10 celebrations which also include From Your Retrospective, in which show-offs, punters and die-hard fans re-enacted Scottee’s work from memory at the Roundhouse, London on 7th and 8th September 2018.
Scottee: I Made It has been supported as part of LADA’s contribution to the Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme (CAPP), an innovative four-year collaborative arts programme co-funded by the European Union, and also forms part of LADA’s Restock Rethink Reflect Four on Live Art and Privilege (2016-18).
Banner image credit:
Illustration by James Unsworth
