A Glasgow site in transition

A site-specific installation in the Tontine Building on Trongate in  August 2017

The gradual demolition in 2017 of the Computer Centre at 154 Trongate in Glasgow coincided with my process of research in fulfilment of the Master of Research in Creative Practice at the Glasgow School of Art.

At the time of my first encounter with the Computer Centre, it was a site in transition, spatially and temporally in-between, a ‘modern ruin’ and on the brink of being erased from the city. It seemed to be considered a ‘dead space’ and an ‘eyesore’ in Glasgow’s Merchant City; a contrast with having once been at the fore front of technological advancement. (read more)