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Dennistoun, Tradeston, Pollokshaws Temporary | 7 days | 27 Events | Glasgow, Scotland | April 2006

Curated by: Will Foster, Charlie Bosanquet Stephen Jakub, Beth Hamer Nick Carlin, Jenny Herman

Participating artists: Guyan Porter, Dan Monks, Sinead McCann, Ruth Legg, Julia Dotoli, Ulrika Westergren, Lucie Galand,| Robert Smythe, Billy Love, Wojciech Kosma, Linda Greig, Chris Biddlecombe, Deborah Arnott, Michael Clarence, Hannah Buss, The Training Chain Art Group, Hanna Tuulikki, Gabriel Birch, Alex Head, Charlie Yetton, Hedley Sugar-Wells, Esme MacLeod, Julia Schaeper, Florence Andrews, Ross Plaster, Craig Gray, Logan Sisley, Stephen Mulhall, Milochomil Mexican collective, Arturo Heredia, Marco Galindo, Octavio Ramirez, Bridget Kennedy, Anna Gray, Hugh Watt, Maria McCavana, Yvonne Mullock, Chris Biddleombe, Deborah Arnott

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Temporary spaces are transformed by local and international artists who work with modular 10ft by 8ft x 8ft storage containers that are delivered to and installed on carefully selected sites within a given city. These ubiquitous metal cubes, found on streets in many European cities, are normally used by the construction industry for storing tools near building sites. Cabin Exchange has been run in either Edinburgh or Glasgow every year since 2002 there has been over 160 cabin works and has involved over 300 artists since its beginning. We advertise widely for participants and usually select site-specific and site-sympathetic works that utilize a broad range of mediums and genres, presenting: performances, exhibitions, interactive installations, art-in-correspondence through post and email, theatre, dance, discussions, presentations, projections, films, games, auctions, competitions, workshops, readings and meals.

2006 For this year’s project Cabin Exchange devised a lengthier time scale, the initial stage was to pick three broad areas in Glasgow, places that had a story to tell from outside of the spotlight usually shone on the shopping streets of Glasgow’s city centre. These were Dennistoun, Tradeston and Pollokshaws. All three locations represent an element of Glasgow’s recent history and all three have been earmarked by the Glasgow city council for transformation. Since November 2005 the Cabin Exchange curatorial team and many others were active in the three proposed areas. The aim was to engage with the people who live and work there, dig into the history, observe the trades, business, politics and landscape. The information gathered was made available online to anybody wishing to submit a proposal for the event, and was used to help us choose the exact location of the cabins. This six month process helped create a platform for projects that are shaped by the people and places the cabins are sited in.

‘Like the spots erupting on the skin of a chicken pox sufferer, the appearance of the steel cabin in the city is a symptom - a symptom of speculative capital at work. There can be no objection, it seems, when the steel container appears on the streets as a symptomatic representative of one form of private interest (that of entrepreneurs, investors, shareholders, etc.), but what might happen if it were to shelter another form of supposedly private interest, that of the artist?’

John Callcutt - Analytical and Synthetic cabinism June 2004

Cabin Exchange 2006 was supported by Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow city council and Glasgow International

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Project website www.cabinexchange.co.uk