filament works
Paignton
Filament was developed with support from Torbay’s Great Place Scheme as part of
its building resilience strand and enabling new models of governance work.
Through 2019, Eyeview worked with artists and communities, developing
site-specific commissions, participatory projects and community actions. Through
this, we saw a need for an agile producing house that could work imaginatively
with communities to produce impactful work with the independence to flex,
experiment and think sideways. Our focus is to produce work that builds a more
resilient, diverse and progressive cultural ecology, supporting individuals,
communities and place. We do this through: Developing place-based collaborations
with communities; Shaping new cultural programmes; Co-creating interventions
that tackle specific challenges for people and place; Producing artist-led
initiatives; Supporting networks, skills and capacity-building. At the centre of
this work is an ongoing enquiry that asks how we can encourage and enable the
diverse and indigenous culture of a place to continually shape its own distinct
sense of identity. We believe that by democratising and integrating the working
methods of artists, communities can collectively problem-solve, imagine new
possibilities, and together build community wealth.
