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Garage Vivant (stalled) was a pamphlet of prompts for speculative, abandoned, impossible, aspirational or idealistic performances.

As part of the planned programme for GI 2020, Garage Vivant was to be a sequence of tableaux vivant performed for one night only in a roller-shutter garage behind Glasgow’s Mitchell library. The shutter would have risen five times, each time revealing a new static tableau. But in 2021, the roller-shutter was stalled. Instead, the artists offered a printed collection of ideas and evocations of performances that have never, and may never, take place. Taking the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to pause and re-set, the artists imagined something that might have been, something unnoticed, something different, or something else.

Supported by Glasgow Creative Communities, Artist in Residence Programme supported by Glasgow City Council and managed by Glasgow Life

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