Intertale / Eutopia

InterTale/Eutopia is a travelling research project to investigate curatorial and organisational practices of rural arts initiatives across Europe.

With an InterRail ticket in my hand, I am criss-crossing the continent to visit a wide range of rural creative set ups. By connecting and reconnecting with existing and future partners and networks I discuss, test and refine a series of proposed questions that stem from my transformational fieldwork research, tried and tested at Deveron Projects/the town is the venue in Huntly, Aberdeenshire.

Workshops, walkshops and talks form the encounters, alongside simply looking and listening at different models of arts development in their specific rural community settings.

Intertale relates to the stories I gain and the talks I give while travelling from place to place. Eutopia, a much-used Geddesian term, means a place that strives to be perfectly happy - stemming from the Greek εὖ ("good" or "well") and τόπος ("place"), meaning a place of ideal well-being. While Utopia is an impossible concept, Eutopia is a more realistic idea of something that is attainable, where people must put aside their personal interests for the good of the larger group.

During the first part of my journey, I travelled over two months to Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Romania, Italy, France and Catalunya. I was also in Eire and Germany in 2025. The more northern and Baltic countries were visited during phase 2 in early summer 2026.

Shadow Curator: Charles Esche‍. ‍Supported by Creative Scotland.