Over the past 12 years Suspect Culture has become one of Scotland’s leading arts organisations with an international reputation for creating groundbreaking high quality new work. We have worked with some of the most respected artists and organisations in the UK and internationally and our approach is based on the creative circulation of ideas; between different cultures, art forms, artists and issues, and most importantly, between us and our audience. We create new performance work in a variety of media; primarily theatre but also visual art and film. All our activity is based on a set of core values:
Collaboration
- We are committed to sharing artistic visions with a wide variety of leading artists
- We create work through a rigorous collaborative process involving extensive development periods including research, workshops and experimentation
- We give artists the opportunity to develop skills and fulfil potential by engaging with this process and each other in inspiring ways
- We are committed to developing projects in partnership with other organisations to maximise ideas, talents and resources
Interdisciplinarity
- We explore performance in a variety of contexts - theatre, gallery/installation, film
- We work with leading artists from different disciplines allowing them to be influenced and inspired by each other
- We give great consideration to identifying the most appropriate medium through which to express particular ideas
- We want to explore the different ways our ideas can resonate with our audience and use these different formats to enrich their relationship with the company and its work
Internationalism
- We maintain developing relationships with associate artists from a variety different countries
- We are committed to exchanging different cultural influences and creative approaches
- We explore issues that arise from the coming together of different cultures and languages in the content of our work
Interpretation
- We create interpretive materials and events to enhance our audience’s experience of our work
- We like to provide our audience with a context for individual pieces of work
- We make connections between different projects across our whole programme of work
