Hard-core porno paid for by taxpayers via SNP quango

Nothing necessarily happened to Leonie at all. Some people just have innately poor boundaries and an innate inability to predict the effects on other people. And if everyone else is running round thinking it's just cool and arty to be transgressive then the results can be - well, this.

All fun and games until someone loses an eye.

I've read most of the links, I've gotta say its putrid, the whole thing is putrid.
And leonie needs some counselling immediately to even think this is right and to find out what in the hell happened in her life/childhood to come up with the concept with zero regard to who would participate and those who would watch.

Shauny Boy nailing it again:

Yes. It sounds like a show that wants to test boundaries, alright. By deliberately subjecting vulnerable people to abuse for money and seeing what happens.

I suppose this is queer theory in action.

Heads need to roll at Creative Scotland. What liars they are. Jeez.

Have you ever watched The Elderly Rich Husband Helpline (I think it's on Tiktok but it may be FB only)?
He needs to recommend this article to his clients.

Another article in the Times

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/creative-scotland-pressure-funding-hardcore-sex-show-gc8v7vvjr

https://archive.ph/kgyGA daddy will see you past the paywall

Fuck's sake how was this ever considered for funding! Putting aside the lying liars and the sex, the odds of this going badly for one of the performers seems massive. The casting call seems likely to attract people with vulnerabilities, candidates for the Greens, the sexually incontinent and exhibitionists with no idea of boundaries. This would have been a terrible mix. And it just sounds shit.

Dear God

BBC Scotland does recently appear to be doing a slightly better job that we've otherwise come to expect from the wider BBC.

'Ms Gasson, who is from London and is based in Glasgow, was employed by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland until April and has worked with National Theatre of Scotland and the Tron Theatre.
Her previous work includes a project at the Traverse Theatre with Lyceum Youth Theatre involving "teenagers and a child" taking items from audience members' bags and making sex toys with them.'

Crikey, the BBC isn't holding back, for a change.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqq04v75p9o

'Creative Scotland later said they had not realised the project involved real sex, but Rein's application acknowledged that development would involve "a sex scene with genital contact" involving three members of the cast.
It also stated that, where necessary, testing for sexually-transmitted infections (STIs) would be conducted before rehearsals.'

This is the express's article on it

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/snp-quango-handed-hardcore-sex-32858665?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

Neurodivergent dramaturgy?? body-themed practictioners?? LMAO.

This is not art but utter bullshit. Funded because the “art” is produced by a “queer” woman.

Also, actors are getting £270 a day - even assuming 12 actors for four days each is less than £12,500 - where’s the rest of the money gone? I bet it will be art/film students conscripted in for peanuts (and CV enhancement) working on production and the rest to the “talented, creative, free thinking” Leonie - I would love to see a breakdown of projected costs.

I have no problem with spending on the arts but there must be accountability and surely an installation unavailable to youth/children due to explicit content is not a good use of public money.

Oh, and also - who wants to enjoy porn in a communal space? Urgh. Vile.

The BBC reporting on the lying liars

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqq04v75p9o

Also has a timely reminder on one of Gasson's previous works in which teenagers and a child make sex toys from items taken from the audience.

I'll say this for Gasson she seems to have a problem with boundaries but she seems to have been honest about this. Compared to Creative Scotland who's lies only bought them time as foi would and have inevitably brought the truth to light.

Gasson also, within her own moral universe, seems to have given thought to the wellbeing of her cast. Or perhaps consulted a lawyer to make sure her arse was, metaphorically, covered.

The lying liars!

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/creative-scotland-in-porn-project-controversy/

Creative Scotland knew about the non-simulated sex all along.

No funding either for a book festival, and associated children's book festival -

www.heraldscotland.com/news/24216735.creative-scotland-reject-aye-write-book-festival-funding-bid/

Probe launched.

NOT LIKE THAT.

https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/holyrood-launches-probe-into-creative-scotland-funding-of-hardcore-sex-film-project-4567808

I suppose that applying for arts grants is like applying for any other grant, succeed once and you're likely to succeed again especially if you attract some publicity (in my line of work they call it "impact") which you can do in the arts by being controversial. Until the tide turns on your controversy and the publicity turns ugly, which it seems to have done.

@IcakethereforeIam he's just some guy I think on twitter, that's how I found out about him. twitter bonnieprincebob
He makes wee films holding the SG to account. He seems quite left wing as he is into Mark Fisher (now deceased who called out Cancel Culture and I think, don't quote me on this, killed himself because he himself was a victim of cancel culture). Bonnie Prince Bob has a short film in which he describes the Cancel Culture and the theories of Mark Fischer and I think he feels this is Scotland basically. I do think Mark Fisher got everything spot on ,except the stuff about Russell Brand ( who is alleged to have sexually abused many women and girls ) I would replace the person Mark Fischer wrote about with Glinner or JK perhaps. Interesting stuff

Yep. That is all archived.

CS would have been perfectly happy with all of this had it not got so much attention, I suspect. £84k is a fucking huge amount of money. It's a fairly onerous process to apply for a meagre grant for a few hundred. I'd imagine that a show that's already been through R&D would have a fair bit of detail to it to get that amount.

But eh, maybe if you're one of the chosen ones it's a different process.