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This talk will explore demolition, dereliction, queerness, and dispossession in relation to Glasgow in particular. For this event on flux and urban decay and renewal in relation to Glasgow, I will focus on queer art and architecture in works focused on Glasgow. In Shuggie Bain, the queer child moves around the city with his alcoholic mother in the 1970s, shifting from one ruinous housing development to another, and the social rejection he experiences plays out against a backdrop of slag heaps and clay pits. Like the detritus of industrial collapse, queer life unfolds in the ruins and eschews improvement and development for demolition and destruction. Earlier in the century, another queer artist, Joan Eardley, painted complex portraits of street kids she met near her studio in Townhead. Slated for demolition, Townhead offers a dramatic backdrop for childhood. What are the connections, I will ask, between representations of (queer) children in the works of Douglas Stuart and Joan Eardley, and their depictions of Glasgow itself as a site of change, collapse, and urban pessimism?
This event was sponsored by and in partnership with the Glasgow Gifford Lectures.
Jack Halberstam
The “Work-Ordered Day” is the structured routine tasks available daily that help us at Flourish House use and gain abilities in a supportive environment.
At the site of the original Queen Margaret Bridge, stands Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson’s only civic structure, an immense retaining wall with a fine sweeping staircase, the ‘Greek’ Thomson Sixty Steps.
This short film joins historian Dr Mark Nixon on this popular look at Geroge Square.
The webinar will give a general overview of the use of laser scanning, photogrammetry and other techniques used to create 3D models of Glasgow’s famous, but normally inaccessible, Mercat Cross.
Govanhill Baths is an Edwardian Baths and Wash-House designed by A. B. McDonald, formally opened on 3rd July 1917.
We welcome you to enjoy a virtual visit to Flourish House. See the key features of our striking former church, one of only three known buildings in Glasgow by Eric Alexander Sutherland in use today.
Rather than throw away any chipped Burleigh crockery we pass it on to Jon from Crafted Glass, who upcycles it into bespoke pieces of jewellery.
Glasgow Royal Infirmary is one of the oldest functioning acute hospitals in the UK. The original building was designed by the Adam brothers.
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