Roving Machines and Middlemen

Bothy stores, an online annexe of The Bothy Project, presented two projects by Sworn and design label Trakke investigating Glasgow as an industrial town in the context of its history, legacy and culture. This focused on its legacy of shipbuilders and merchant classes - traders in chemicals, tobacco and cotton - as well as the culture, style and people in today's city.

Sworn and Alec Farmer of Trakke used research into the conduits of trade, the marks these have left on the city or absences now embedded within it, to open out the city's possibilities, actualities and hauntings.

They considered the origins of raw materials, where they go and what they become, and look at the fragments of buildings that still act as way markers either for directions in the present or to a city no longer here. Their narrative evokes these shifts making work that is at once demonstrative, descriptive and questioning of Glasgow's industrial legacy.

Supported by Glasgow International and Outset Scotland.