Craig McCorquodale
Craig McCorquodale is an artist based in Glasgow, working with the body's ability to transcend its everyday self. He thinks of performance as a kind of combat sport - visceral, capricious, something bound up in spectacle.
He makes experimental performance, events and invitations for participation in a range of contexts, working with the aesthetic potential of professional and non-professional performers. He questions what's at risk, who enters the stage and how young artists can make work at scale.
Recently, he has presented live moments between:
An embalmer and eight eight-year-olds,
A 100 year-old and a butterfly,
A construction worker suspended by his ankles from a crane.
This work is inspired by and building from a movement of artists situating expanded social practices within headline performance. The images that ask us to recognise our own humanity in the struggle of another. As such, Craig's work attempts to construct social sculpture and presents each body's ability to be multiple, ordinary and ecstatic.
In 2021, Craig was awarded the Jerwood Arts Live Work Fund.
He has recently been supported by National Theatre of Scotland, Battersea Arts Centre, Tramway, British Council and La TeatrerÃa.
He has been Commissioned by Wunder der Prärie Festival at Zeitraumexit (Mannheim, Germany), Lyra (Edinburgh, Scotland) and Evergreen Brick Works (Toronto, Canada).
He has been a performer in Quarantine's epic durational performance, 12 Last Songs. He regularly collaborates with 21Common and Mammalian Diving Reflex, and has toured nationally and internationally in these contexts, including: VIERNULVIER (Ghent, Belgium) as part of With Pleasure Festival, Theater Neumarkt (Zurich, Switzerland), Triennale Milano / Zona K (Milano, Italy), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago, USA), Sydney Fringe (Sydney, Australia), Taranaki Festival (New Plymouth, New Zealand), Freedom Festival (Hull, UK), Brighton Festival (Brighton, UK) and the Made in Scotland Showcase at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018 and 2022.
In 2020, Craig graduated with a First Class BA Honours in Contemporary Performance Practice from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Craig is always looking to work with new people in unexpected ways, so please reach out if you would like to commission him for a project or discuss a collaboration.