In this newly commissioned performance, psychedelic beat-poetry ensemble Acolyte bring together a collective of disparate art forms to recreate a production line, reflecting this year’s festival themes of ritual and new narratives. Inspired by The Paper Factory’s abandoned machinery, Production Line of Dreams uses loops, field recordings and movement to explore machine learning, imagination production and AI.
Production Line of Dreams will run at 10pm each evening of the festival.
Acolyte are a band: a poetic and psychedelic ensemble, featuring bassist Ruairidh Morrison (Nomoss/The Micro Band), with synth and backing vocals from Gloria Black (Maranta / Microsteria) , percussion from Daniel Hill, and fronted by the award-winning poet and spoken-word artist, Iona Lee. Acolyte fuses soundscapes with storytelling, hypnotic loops, harmonic depth, and existential motifs to create unique performances.
Suzi Cunningham is a Scottish live-performance artist and Butoh dancer. Her solo work is highly physical, political and responsive to its unique environment, enriched with her sense of design and musical composition. Suzi explores relationships with all life forms as well as manufactured materials, making embodied connections in a way that borders transformation. She is a dancer with Oceanallover and Nomoss and collaborates with a diversity of artists performing at local events and Festivals across UK and Internationally.
London based audio visual artist Eve King creates glitchy visual landscapes to accompany ambient and drone inspired sound works. Often working with sonification techniques such as bio-sensors or using data as a material to inform compositional systems, she has a particular interest in the sonic environments of public spaces and site-specific sound installations.
Production Line of Dreams is one of our 2025 Creative Collaborations, newly commissioned interdisciplinary projects waiting to be encountered by visitors as they explore The Paper Factory’s labyrinths. Visionaries from radically different disciplines – from electronic musicians and installation artists to contemporary dancers and theatrical innovators – have been challenged to create something that could only exist in this distinct moment and place.
