An Opinionated Primer to Glasgow

(As sent to the Detroit-based artists - Sent back in 2016)

This Organization:

This book:

These movies by Lynne Ramsay:

This Author & his famous book:

“Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation”

A time-capsule to 2014 in Glasgow:

• Artist-Run spaces
  
  
• A previous itinerary
  

More recently added:

This shortened bibliography:

• Mother tongue: The White Aesthetic Necessitated by the 'Glasgow Miracle' (2013)
  
  
• Sarah Tripp: You Are of Vital Importance to the Art World (2012)
  
  
• It Wisnae Us by Stephen Mullen
  
  

These other online links about contemporary culture:

• The Glasgow Miracle Archive Project (alternative histories)


• Spirit of Revolt Archive
  


• Subclub - championing new exciting electronic sounds since 1987
  
  
• Glasgow Zero Waste Map
  
  
• Glasgow Women’s Library: A Timeline
  
  
• Lauren Paice: Overspill Policy and the Glasgow Slum Clearance Project in the Twentieth Century: From One Nightmare to Another?
  


• The mysterious drink Buckfast and all that surrounds it - Find my Buckie App
  


• David Harding’s book “DECADEnt - Public Art Contentious term and Contested Practice“ Published by Foulis Press, 1997” (I may need to scan pages from the TSWA official catalog because both are out of print)
  

These art pieces made about Glasgow by FOREIGNERS:

• A coloring book made by Anna Tüdős
  

  (only available by request)
  

  
  
• A cheeky video guide to Glasgow by Cedric Tai


• Performance pieces by Rachel Yezbick Exploring the connection between the United States and Glasgow via the slave trade, a recreation of the Grand Ol Opry, buskers and contemporary art.