Vestages Park!

By far I think a Highlight for all those on the Glasgow trip

Vestages park situated in what could be called an area of wasteland just outside of the Glasgow sculpture studios was a project conceived and initiated by Lowsalt. the park was produced by 16 artists. The park itself was a fantastic experience humours and surreal. it really showed how you can make something truly great and inspired a collective when you pull together, Lowsalt said that they appropriated the the public land from the local council and after clearing the land up for the park there is interest for other projects to go on in the once abandoned space. This reminded me of what gary had said about the art in unusual spaces project and how Artists/the creative community are there ready to fill in the cracks and opportunities to produce and show wherever possible. Personally given the choice I would much rather put on a show/display work in a piece of scrap land than in a shopping centre or a gallery for that matter.

extract from promotional material

"A Collective Intervention into a Forgotten Landscape"

Vestiges Park does not exist, cannot exist, will not exist. The artists involved deny all knowledge of the project and the authorities are mute. In some cases these artists may not actually exist – they split, double, multiply, evaporate, condense, dissolve and merge until truth and fiction, science and magic become indistinguishable. Vestiges Park is a chimera – there and not there – dare to find us, dare to enter and let us take you to the edgelands, the rotting places where nothing is as it seems...

...and if you cannot find us it is because we have fallen off your maps. - Lady Ada Lovelace

JACK WRIGLEY ~ CLARA URSITTI ~ ROBBIE THOMSON ~ ANDREW SUNLEY SMITH
JEN SYKES ~ JONATHAN SCOTT ~ SHELLY NADASHI ~ ROB MULHOLLAND ~ PHIL LEE ZUZANNA KALINOWSKA ~ ALEX GROSS ~ CHERYL FIELD ~ ACD FERGUSON
BEN DEMBROSKI ~ JIM COLQUHOUN ~ JUDD BRUCKE

VESTIGES PARK PREVIEW Saturday April 17th 2- 6pm
Open From Twelve until Five Daily
Open Thursday Evenings 5- 8pm
145 Kelvinhaugh Street - Glasgow G3 8PX

Vestiges Park is inspired by the 1844 anonymous publication of ‘Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation’'. The book, written by Scottish journalist Robert Chambers, exposed a cosmic theory of transmutation which pre-dated Darwin's 'Origin of the Species' by 15 years.

The story of this work, its author, and its reception remains one of the most intriguing tales in the history of science. In it we can see foreshadows of many debates that still occur to this day - among scientists and public alike - including those about the validity of evolutionary theories, the demarcation of science from pseudoscience, and the effect of popularization upon scientific ideas. The publication of the first edition would see the birth of one of the greatest controversies of the nineteenth century, one that would result in the sale of over 23,000 copies over a sixteen year period and the publication of a further eleven editions. (Secord 1994, xxvi)

Adam’s Sedgwick (Darwin’s geology professor) described it as “philosophy out of moonshine”