Georgia Horgan

Saturday – an audio guide

A picture of Calton Burial ground gates, in contrast with a orange and red sunset.

The burial ground has moss, trees and grass around the tombs. There is a big white building with blue windows behind the burial ground.

We can see a tomb that has written in it JASON UVE. There is green grass and moss and behind it a path to the gates of the burial ground.

It is a close up image of a Health and Safety Notice about the memorials, a yellow sign with black text by the Glasgow City Council. On top of that there is a sign with the website "https://www.glasgowinternational.org/saturday" written in black bold font.

The tomb, has a whole in the middle of it. It is surrounded by green grass and behind has a stone wall.

Calton Burial Ground

Calton Burial Ground is the memorial cemetery to six local workers killed by troops during the 1787 Calton Weavers Strike – the earliest major industrial dispute in Scottish history. It sits on Abercromby Street, formerly known as ‘Witch Loan’, as the road was believed to be bewitched.

Saturday originated as a lecture and screening during Glasgow International 2016, which explored the relationship between popular uprisings and the witch scares. For Glasgow International 2018, the work was re-imagined as an audio guide to the burial ground itself. The audio guide was available from the website, and was indicated by a plaque in the cemetery.