2012 Co-Lead Artist with Matt Baker
Part of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, shortlisted for a Creative Scotland Award (Community Arts Category). A three/NINE?? month project which commissioned 13 artist/makers to collaborate with 18 partner organisations. Govan Riverfront and Riverside Museum, Glasgow. www.aboutuswithoutus.com
Nothing About Us Without Us Is For Us (2012)
Matt Baker and t s Beall (with many others)
A public art event using obsolete technology to hurl language across Glasgow’s River Clyde. The project commissioned 15 artists and makers to partner with 18 local organisations. Together, they delivered 6 weeks of activities which culminated in an event on Saturday 28 April, 2012 – where over 1500 people sang, shouted, and sailed across the Clyde. Visitors to the Glasgow International Festival were invited to the Govan waterfront to participate in transmissions using human megaphones, siege engines, string-and-cup telephones, messages-in-bottles (‘The Govan Armada II’), choral serenades, and more…
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Nothing about us without us is for us, govan, Glasgow, GI 2012, GI Festival, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, art, community, local, communication, language, gaelic, translation, patter, river, clyde, integration, scotland, ts Beall, Matt Baker, flags, banners, string and cup, string & cup, trebuchet, ferry, ferry token, boats, ships, choral, message in a bottle,
Alexandra Bowie
Belinda Gilbert-Scott
Colin Thomas Begg
Fiona Fleming
Geraldine Greene
Grant Leckie
Ingrid Shearer
Jim Ferguson
Kate V Robertson
Martin Campbell
Matt Baker
Riccardo Buonaccarsi
Sophie Manhire
Steven Anderson
t s Beall
Tam McGarvey