cabin exchange 2020

17th-23rd april 06

Dennistoun | Tradeston | Pollokshaws


Supported by:


Scroll below for a list of the cabin exchange 2020 projects.

Images will be uploaded at the end of each projects




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Guyan Porter

Gender Bender



A week before the event starts, 10th-16th April

“When is a cabin not a cabin?

When it is an immaculate pink sculpture.

Guyan Porter will attempt to spectacularly transform

a steel container into an alien art object,

with wit, concentration and several coats of paint”

 

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Dan Monks and Sinead McCann

Pedestrian Mapping




Monday  17th 12:30pm – 5pm

“Through the use of red balloons pedestrians will

be coerced into taking part in a game.

The city is the chalk grid. The game, hopscotch.’

 

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Ruth Legg

Site Specific Work- working titlee



Monday 17th 7pm-1am

“A light inside the cabin is the same colour as one

in the outside world. The light flashes randomly

as if in communication

with the one outside.”

 

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Julia Dotoli

Admit One

Tuesday  18th 12pm-5pm

“Admit One is part of an ongoing project which uses

collected insecurities to publicise the private through

the use of language.

 

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Ulrika Westergren

Art-Trade

Wednesday  19th 12am-6pm

“Welcome to Art-trade!

At Art-trade you can get an art-piece really cheap

just by making a trade. No cash, trading only!

Take a Chance”

 

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Lucie Galand

What are you’se up to in there?

Thursday  20th 4pm-7pm

“The cabin will be used as a film-screen on

which 2 films, depicting the activity inside

the 2 buildings on either side of the

cabin, will be projected.”

 

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Robert Smythe

Class Photo

Friday 21st 9am-4pm

Whitehill Secondary School art class.

A Class Photo taken using the cabin

as a large pinhole camera.

 

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Billy Love

Glasgow’s First Cyber Village

Friday 21st 5pm-10pm

Billy will create a Galactic Space Docking

Station, landed in Dennistoun.

He will collect people’s future dreams for

Dennistoun and beam them up into

hyper space using sound and spoken word.

 

Wojciech Kosma

Instrumentalists

Saturday 22nd  10am-8pm

“Instrumentalists”- an interactive installation.

Virtual musicians controlled with a gaming device.

 

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Linda Greig

Room for a View

Sunday  23rd 12pm-6pm

“Sit, relax, enjoy the view and share the picnic.

Enter the cabin and be transported to the

highest geographical point in Scotland.”

 

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Chris Biddlecombe and Deborah Arnott

Goodbye Virginia

Sunday  23rd performance 8:15pm

“An atmospheric old time performance event that 

explores Glasgow’s links with tobacco in an

enclosed public space - brought to you through 

the mediums of banjos and shadows.”







Logan Sisley

Tradeston Allotmentt





Monday 17th 10am-6pm

“The container becomes a garden shed from which to

tend a neglected adjacent planter box.”

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Stephen Mulhall

The Heads of Planners



Tuesday 18th 5pm - 9pm

“Contemporary and historic descriptions of the proposed

M74, to cut through Tradeston, are contrasted through

sound and image.”

 

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Logan Sisley and Stephen Mulhall

Mitigation Measures/ Every Building on the M74

Wednesday 19th 5pm-9pm

“A photographic survey of buildings to be demolished

along the route of the proposed M74 extension.”

 

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Milochomil, Mexican collective, Arturo Heredia,

Marco Galindo, Octavio Ramirez

Futuristica



Thursday 20th 3pm-7pm

“MOM (Milochomil) Communication Company offers

a way to move people and stuff

around the world, “teletransportation service”.

This is a simple public

service in the year 2020 connecting

Tradeston to Mexico City.”

 

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Bridget Kennedy and Anna Gray

Life Park

Friday 21st 4pm-7pm

“A commuter car park: a place where people leave

one life to step into another. Artists as researchers

reflect this moment of transformation/ metamorphosis.”

 

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Hugh Watt and Maria McCavana

Mirror Hall

Saturday 22nd 6pm-11pm

“Mirror Hall’, turns the cabin at Tradeston into a small

movie house whose exterior walls will reflect its surroundings.

From the cabin a film about Glasgow, as if seen through

a magnifying glass, will be projected onto a large outdoor

screen and be the feature for the evening.”

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Yvonne Mullock

Tradeston Pigeon Race

Sunday 23rd 12pm-4pm

“Coming Soon, ‘The Tradeston Pigeon Race’.

Using locally bred homing pigeons to race against one another,

the first pigeon to fly home wins. Come place your bets at the

Tradeston cabin on Sunday 23rd April.”

 

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Chris Biddlecombe and Deborah Arnott

Goodbye Virginia

Sunday  23rd performance 9:30pm

“An atmospheric old time performance event that explores

Glasgow’s links with tobacco in an enclosed public space -

brought to you through the mediums of banjos and shadows.”







Michael Clarence

Found Cafe

Monday 17th 8am-8pm



“Found Cafe” is a situation in a cabin, it’s a fake cafe,

but looks real.

You can eat cake and drink tea / coffee for free.”

 

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Hannah Buss

Storytelling *

Tuesday  18th 10am-12pm





“Filling the space with a story.

First through the spoken word, then pictorially

by those who listened, onto the walls of the cabin.”

 

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The Training Chain Art Group

Piece by piece

Tuesday 18th 1pm-6pm





“To give context to feelings and raise awareness of

the residents of Shawbridge, who are about to  witness

and experience major changes in their  community

over the next decade.”

 

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Hanna Tuulikki

Pollokshaws Song Portrait

Tuesday 18th 7pm - 10pm



“The launch of an album featuring self portraits through

song and a new composition by people living in and

near Pollokshaws.”

 

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Gabriel Birch, Alex Head and Charlie Yetton

ZONE 3712

Wednesday 19th 8am - 10pm

“...Imagine a wild garden on the arcade, a space of

mystery and adventure! ‘Zone3712’, will function as

a centre to show works as a jump off point

for co-ordinate tours of works made on site.”

 

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Hedley Sugar-Wells

Indefinite leave to remain

Thursday 20th 10am - 2pm


“Negotiated audio - visual installation

Wherever I lay my hat that’s my castle

Refuge/e asylum / assimilation

immigration / isolation  Citizen”

 

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Ulrika Westergren

Art-Trade

Friday 21st 12am - 6pm

“Welcome to Art-Trade!

At Art-Trade you can get an art-piece really cheap

just by making a trade.

No cash, trading only! Take a chance!”

 

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Esme MacLeod, Julia Schaeper and Florence Andrews

Mapping Places

Saturday 22nd 10am - 6pm

“The cabin will turn into a giant map and we invite

people to pop in and pin on their ideas and comments

about their communities”

 

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Ross Plaster and Craig Gray

Cinnamon Shack

Sunday 23rd all day

“The project provides a comfortable room that leaks

the aroma of cinnamon into the urban fabric of Pollokshaws.”

 

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Chris Biddlecombe and Deborah Arnott

Goodbye Virginia

Sunday 23rd performance 10:45 pm

“An atmospheric old time performance event that explores

Glasgow’s links with tobacco in an enclosed public space

- brought to you by the mediums of banjos and shadows.”