We've been collaborating with getMade design and Scran on a project that has just launched into the sea!
Splash Back is a creative exploration of the rich heritage, present and future of our relationship with the Scottish seaside and swimming in the sea, bringing archive images to life.
Unlike a Caribbean holiday, no one visits the Scottish seaside and expects perfection. It is fun mixed with adversity: the laughter and carefree combined with bracingly cold waters where only the brave venture. Scotland has a proud and well documented history of every aspect of sea swimming from paddling, to the numerous Lidos and Bathing Stations, and the Victorian Bathing Machines that allowed the upper classes to plunge into the restorative waters, whilst keeping their dignity.
Our animation is the launch of Splash Back, with all the light-hearted humour of a seaside variety act. We are inviting people to share their memories of the seaside past and conjure up dreams of how we can truly reconnect with our beaches and shores, especially in these strange Covid times. Share your thoughts with @seethinkmakeart on Twitter.
Splash Back will grow next summer with an ingenious Heath Robinson modern reconstruction of a Victorian bathing machine that will trundle over beaches, opening its doors to reveal an exhibition, sharing stories of salt watery times past from the 18th century onwards. The Marvellous Magical Bathing Machine will also be a receptacle for memories, gathering new ones from its visitors: a living archive, capturing tales and ideas in real time, right next to the sea. Complete with lively hosts, dressed in vintage swimming gear and prone to occasional outbursts of synchronised swimming flash-mob dancing, the Bathing Machine will be an extraordinary sight: a little bit of magic that the seaside is so connected with. There one day and gone the next…
And finally, Splash Back will culminate in a spectacle, bringing these gathered stories together into a special performance piece combining lights, sound, video and animation.
It has inclusion at its core: our collective seaside is for everyone and now, more than ever, is the time to reconnect and reimagine these important places, building on past laughter, shrieking and downright chilliness that echo through time.
Splash Back is a creative exploration of the rich heritage, present and future of our relationship with the Scottish seaside and swimming in the sea, bringing archive images to life.
Unlike a Caribbean holiday, no one visits the Scottish seaside and expects perfection. It is fun mixed with adversity: the laughter and carefree combined with bracingly cold waters where only the brave venture. Scotland has a proud and well documented history of every aspect of sea swimming from paddling, to the numerous Lidos and Bathing Stations, and the Victorian Bathing Machines that allowed the upper classes to plunge into the restorative waters, whilst keeping their dignity.
Our animation is the launch of Splash Back, with all the light-hearted humour of a seaside variety act. We are inviting people to share their memories of the seaside past and conjure up dreams of how we can truly reconnect with our beaches and shores, especially in these strange Covid times. Share your thoughts with @seethinkmakeart on Twitter.
Splash Back will grow next summer with an ingenious Heath Robinson modern reconstruction of a Victorian bathing machine that will trundle over beaches, opening its doors to reveal an exhibition, sharing stories of salt watery times past from the 18th century onwards. The Marvellous Magical Bathing Machine will also be a receptacle for memories, gathering new ones from its visitors: a living archive, capturing tales and ideas in real time, right next to the sea. Complete with lively hosts, dressed in vintage swimming gear and prone to occasional outbursts of synchronised swimming flash-mob dancing, the Bathing Machine will be an extraordinary sight: a little bit of magic that the seaside is so connected with. There one day and gone the next…
And finally, Splash Back will culminate in a spectacle, bringing these gathered stories together into a special performance piece combining lights, sound, video and animation.
It has inclusion at its core: our collective seaside is for everyone and now, more than ever, is the time to reconnect and reimagine these important places, building on past laughter, shrieking and downright chilliness that echo through time.