Press Release
Cabin Exchange, 2003
Monday 17th November – Saturday 22nd November
Garnet Hill, GSA, Renfrew St
City Centre, Hope St and Suchiehall St
Maryhill, Craigmont Drive
Westend, Vinicombe St and Byers Rd
Southside, Kingarth St, near Tramway
Following on the success of last year’s event, Cabin Exchange 2003 promises to be an event not to be missed. Running for a week (November 17th to November 22nd), artists from Glasgow and around the world will take up residence in various PortaCabins around the city for a weeklong arts event.
This year, artists from all over Scotland, as well as New York, Canada, Korea, and Norway, will occupy temporary and autonomous spaces, inhabiting and transforming them into works of art – this year over 70 site specific and site sympathetic works will be on display around the city.
An experiment between the conceptual function of the spaces and the pubic reception of the artist and the work, the Cabin Exchange 2003 is also an excellent venue to generate fresh connections between GSA, Glasgow’s freelance artists, and the broader art community. It hopes to create and foster a dynamic collective for the exchange of ideas and perspectives. As well as some fantastic art and some pure and simple fun!
Originally sprung from the mind of Glasgow School of Art’s Will Foster, a 4th year Environmental Arts student, this year has seen a more democratic curatorial committee decide on who is to be interred into the 10 ft x 8ft Cabins. “There is an exciting and ambiguous relationship between artist and the audience in this urban realm – with its uncertainty, risk and variety – and it presents a challenge to engage at new levels of the physical, temporal, social and political.”
The curators this year –Will Foster, Charlotte Bosanquet, Steven Jakob, and Ayesha Fuentes – have picked a broad range of mediums and genres, presenting performances, exhibitions, theatre, interactive installations and readings over the course of the week. This year’s highlights are sure to include Wrestling Artists, a fully functioning sauna, the Ping-Pong Challenge, and the close-out concerts at the Renfrew Street location on Saturday night.
Be sure not to miss this event, only a year old & already part of the Glasgow Landscape!
2003-11-12
Visit: www.cabinexchange.com to see the timetable of events.
Contact: cabinexchange@yahoo.co.uk - Will Foster 0141 3576507
Here are some photo opportunities for events that should prove particularly interesting:
Monday 17th ‘No lines’ Garnethill cabin 11am -1pm
Tuesday 18th ‘Unrecognised achievements & Fortune Teller’ Maryhill cabin 12pm – 6pm
Wednesday 19th ‘cabin exchanged’ City centre cabin 10am – 4pm
Thursday 20th ‘Corporate identity parade’ City centre cabin 7am – 1pm
Friday 21st ‘Saunabaari’ Garnethill Cabin 6pm – 1am
Saturday 22nd ‘Wrestling artists’ Garnethill Cabin 4pm – 8pm