Site-specific artworks made by Minty Donald with/for the Britannia Panopticon Theatre, Glasgow, 2007 and Tramway, Glasgow, 2008.
Glimmers in Limbo: Britannia Panopticon.
Four artworks alluding to the multiple, competing, and overlapping histories and uses of the Britannia Panopticon building in Glasgow. The building currently houses a semi-derelict nineteenth century music hall above a contemporary amusement arcade and sweet shop. It has been home to a footwear warehouse, tailors’ shop, cinema, and menagerie. The artworks included Façade Fruitmachine, an animation projected in the windows of the building’s upper storey, and Pianola Karaoke, a live performance and recordings of eleven songs chosen by invited artists in response to the building, with scores commissioned for the music hall’s pianola.
Glimmers in Limbo: Tramway, 2008.
Four artworks responding to Tramway’s past and present. Contemporary art venue, Tramway, was built in the nineteenth century as a depot for Glasgow’s tram stock. It was the site of the city’s transport museum before becoming a venue for international performance and visual art in the late 1980s. The artworks included an interactive installation of trolley-mounted cameras in Tramway’s main exhibition space. Spectator-participants could push the trolleys along tram tracks in the gallery floor. Each camera showed footage filmed while driving across Glasgow following former tram routes. Other works engaged with the building’s theatrical past.
Supported by an AHRC Fellowship in the Creative Arts, and a Tramway commission.
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