Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art / Atypical Route 2010

G&W: Futureproof (Ambition / Optimism), 2010. Pasific Quay, Glasgow

G&W: Futureproof (Masterplan), 2010. Glasgow Science Centre.

Work in progress

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Fonts

Text/ Font: Things to Come (1936)

Titles from Things to Come (1936), directed by William Cameron Menzies based upon the novel by H.G. Wells.

Atypical Route Maquette

As part of out Atypical Route project, G&W will also be creating a text based sculpture to be attached to the railings of the Clyde River bank at Pacific Quay. It is our intention to create a piece that can be viewed from each side of the river. One side will read "Ambition" and the other "Futurity". The text will be created from recycled wooden boards clad with aluminium foil. As a comment on the longevity of current trends of urban revitalisation (particularly visible in this area), it is our intention that these glimmering, optimistic words will quickly loose their veneer with the passing of time.

Ambition: (noun) the desire and determination to achieve success.
Futurity: (noun) the future time / renewed or continuing existence.

Atypical Route

Atypical Route Poster (design by Ric Warren)

Gallacher & Warren will be presenting work as part of Atypical Route Art Trail, which is an official part of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. The project is curated by Nat Lambert and Jamie Cooper and takes place between 16th April & 3rd of May 2010. G&W will be re-installing a new interactive variation of Futureproof (Ambition Modernity & Novelty) that will also include a new video work and be installed in the foyer of Glasgow Science Centre. In addition we shall also be sighting a newly commissioned text-based public sculpture on the banks of the river Clyde at Pacific Quay. Both works will form a response to the urban regeneration of the area and deal with the themes of futurity and utopia.

For more information on this project, please visit the web-site www.atypicalroute.com where more information about our proposal and details of other artists involved can be found.

Cycles of Transformation

video, 06:41" 2009