Alastair Snow
We have preferred silent slipways to the riveters' wit
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talk: duration 62 mins; video documentation above – 48 mins 45 secs
Artist and writer Alastair Snow gave the first of the Early Bird Talks – post-breakfast first event of the day.
Text from the original Festival website:
The title of this event comes from Glasgow Sonnets 5 by Edwin Morgan.
Alastair Snow applies his work as an artist and activist across the cultural sector. In this artist’s talk and performance, pitched somewhere between retrospection and autobiographical review, he aims to complement works in the public realm, with steel and stewardship via inheritance, fate and intervention. He devised the Guerrilla Squad as a remarkable concept in concussed percussion which performed at the National Review of Live Art in London in 1987 and at the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988.
The presentation is dedicated to John Davidson Wishart, steel smelter, born in Glasgow in 1893 and who worked with Tata Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. Bombay, India. It honours also three crewmen who died on the fire-tug The Flying Phantom which capsized in 2007 after running aground in the river Clyde.
Alastair Snow is an artist, writer and specialist adviser in art and design in the public realm. He has performed at the Edinburgh Festival (Fringe First Award), Glasgow Garden Festival, Brighton Festival, Hippodrome Night Club, Serpentine Gallery and Modern Art Oxford. He is a trustee of Arnolfini, a director of AN the Artists Information Company and a member of the Academy of Urbanism.
We have preferred silent slipways to the riveters’ wit
Artist and writer Alastair Snow gave the first of the Early Bird Talks.WATCH VIDEO
Text from the original Festival website:
The title of this event comes from Glasgow Sonnets 5 by Edwin Morgan.
Alastair Snow applies his work as an artist and activist across the cultural sector. In this artist’s talk and performance, pitched somewhere between retrospection and autobiographical review, he aims to complement works in the public realm, with steel and stewardship via inheritance, fate and intervention. He devised the Guerrilla Squad as a remarkable concept in concussed percussion which performed at the National Review of Live Art in London in 1987 and at the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988.
The presentation is dedicated to John Davidson Wishart, steel smelter, born in Glasgow in 1893 and who worked with Tata Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. Bombay, India. It honours also three crewmen who died on the fire-tug The Flying Phantom which capsized in 2007 after running aground in the river Clyde.
Alastair Snow is an artist, writer and specialist adviser in art and design in the public realm. He has performed at the Edinburgh Festival (Fringe First Award), Glasgow Garden Festival, Brighton Festival, Hippodrome Night Club, Serpentine Gallery and Modern Art Oxford. He is a trustee of Arnolfini, a director of AN the Artists Information Company and a member of the Academy of Urbanism.
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