Excavating Beginnings and Move Like Water

Excavating Beginnings & Move Like Water explores Glasgow's relationship to, and role within the transatlantic slave trade. Using the rebranding of 'Merchant City' as an anchor, Alberta and Adebusola excavate the various ways the city tells on itself - a willingness to celebrate Glasgow's mercantile past but without acknowledging it's enduring affect and impact on the present.

How do we interrupt cycles of remembering and forgetting? How do we create new ways through? Excavating Beginnings & Move Like Water draws parallels between navigating waterways and navigating archives to lay bear the stories and histories that lie beneath the surface.