Output details

Glimmers in limbo: tramway

The research output is a performance project consisting of a suite of interlinked site-specific performances/installations undertaken as part of an AHRC Creative Fellowship. The underpinning research imperative was an exploration of the potential of site-specific practice as a means of debating, critiquing and shaping conceptions of the built environment. The focus was on specific examples of heritage site: spaces/places whose concrete fabric is marked by their varied and shifting roles, sites that act as triggers to multiple, competing memories and where investments and interests remain contested and unresolved. The project sought to consider the efficacies of site-specific practice as a means of critiquing conceptions of (heritage) site as fixed or circumscribed, and thus as a means of resisting the perpetuation of dominant narratives and their attendant ideologies. The research findings were presented in the interconnected performances/installations Pianola Karaoke; Shoebox Archive; Façade Fruitmachine; Real Estate; Tramway 1; Tramway 2; Throughout the Ground Floor; Entrance/Reception Area

As a practice led project the research aspects of the performances/installations are evidenced by this portfolio of material:

1a/ a print catalogue edited by the researcher and including work written or commissioned by the researcher as well as a DVD documenting the project: Glimmers in Limbo, ed. (Glasgow: Tramway Publications, 2009);

1b/ an essay written by the researcher on the performances: 'Pianola Karaoke and Other Attractions: Resisting the Homogenisation of Cultural Memory Attached to Material Sites' in Performance, Embodiment and Cultural Memory, ed. by Colin Counsell and Roberta Mock (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars' Press, 2009), pp. 183-202;

1c/ archive documentation of Glimmers in Limbo consisting of 10 x DVDs bringing together material relating to the development, realisation and reception of the site-responsive installations/performances at Britannia Panopticon, Glasgow and Tramway, Glasgow

The project is also archived at http://www.glimmersinlimbo.co.uk/ where further documentation describes the research undertaken.