Re: Govan Lyceum Regeneration
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:10 amhttp://www.markorange.com/toor.html
Toor o' Fable, 1997
Installation with 9 minute audio piece, portable radio, color photograph
This piece focused on a 1930's Art Deco cinema in Govan, Glasgow. It consisted of three elements: an actor reading from a 1938 newspaper report on the then new cinema; an interview with Bill Armit, a local architect, that scrutinizes the building's current semi-derelict state; and a recording of a roundtable discussion focusing on the cinema with the Govan Reminiscence Group, a local oral history group. The work attempted to set up a series of open questions about time and memory, the built form and heritage, restoration and value.
The edited audio featured music from John Cage's 'Etudes Australes' (1974) and replayed in the cafeteria at the Pearce Institute, the nearby community center that was hosting the exhibition, through a radio displayed next to a photograph of the cinema's exterior that had been digitally manipulated to distort its shape and intensify its colours.
Toor o' Fable, 1997
Installation with 9 minute audio piece, portable radio, color photograph
This piece focused on a 1930's Art Deco cinema in Govan, Glasgow. It consisted of three elements: an actor reading from a 1938 newspaper report on the then new cinema; an interview with Bill Armit, a local architect, that scrutinizes the building's current semi-derelict state; and a recording of a roundtable discussion focusing on the cinema with the Govan Reminiscence Group, a local oral history group. The work attempted to set up a series of open questions about time and memory, the built form and heritage, restoration and value.
The edited audio featured music from John Cage's 'Etudes Australes' (1974) and replayed in the cafeteria at the Pearce Institute, the nearby community center that was hosting the exhibition, through a radio displayed next to a photograph of the cinema's exterior that had been digitally manipulated to distort its shape and intensify its colours.
We also have had lots of interest from Glasgow Life , Creative Scotland ,several GGC Councilors and DRS officers and many other government agencies that would like to partner up with this wonderful building and its projects... i will post up plans on our website when they come availble. 
Me and my pals would come out of the Lyceum and go across to geraldos cafe for sweets then aff hame......Great times at the auld flicks...and in those days you got two pictures to see as well
