EDINBURGH.- If play is neither inside nor outside, where is it? is a new film by Perthshire-based artist Helen McCrorie, showing in The Hillside as part of Collective’s Satellites Programme.

Helen McCrorie is an artist working with video and documentary strategies. If play is neither inside nor outside, where is it? centres on a child-led outdoor playgroup that meets in the grounds of a former military camp in Scotland. This site, adopted by families for imaginative play and experiential learning, also houses a bunker transformed into a data storage unit. The film celebrates innate creativity and explores our understanding of data gathering and learning as interconnected, yet diverging, processes.

Helen McCrorie and Collective’s Satellites Programme:

Helen Mcrorie’s recent exhibitions and screenings include Against the Flow, Perth Playhouse, Platform Festival, Culture PK, 2018; This Is It – Universe at No. 35 Gallery, Bannockburn, 2017; and The Clock in Commune, The Glasite Meeting House, Edinburgh Art Festival, 2016.

Satellites Programme is Collective’s development programme for emergent artists and producers based in Scotland. Satellites aims to support practitioners at a pivotal, emergent point in their careers through a critical programme of retreats, workshops, studio visits and group discussions, public exhibitions, events and publishing. Artists are selected from an open submission by a new panel each year. The 2018-19 participants selected by artist Kathryn Elkin, writer Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith and curator Camille Videcoq are: Helen McCrorie, Emmie McLuskey, Kimberley O’Neill and Katie Shannon.