Southside Cinerama presents How The West Was Won (MGM 1962) A site-specific installation, involved converting the space of the ubiquitous tenement bay-window in a living room into a Cinerama screen. The film chronicles the fate of a family of pioneers as they cross the American West and brings the narrative, in the soaring finale, to contemporary America- complete with scenes of traffic jams, skyscrapers and industrialized farming. Although in many ways of its time, the film begins to make a tacit nod to a more progressive understanding of the American origin story, with allusions to the mistreatment of Native Americans, the plight of women and the excessive behaviour of corporate America.

This work took place as part of Glasgow Open House Art Festival, 2017. The festival sees artists open their homes and other non-gallery spaces to the creation of work and events.

Above, All the world's a ping pong table 2015. Part of a roving annual residency programme in Sweden, Tomma Rum (Empty Space) changes location each year. 2015 saw it take place in the remote logging town of Ljusne on the Baltic coast. Deindustrialised and depopulated, the town had become temporary home to people awaiting decisions on their status as aspirant citizens of Sweden.

The work involved remaking a defunct cutting bench as a ping pong table, creating a work that was sculptural, participatory, site-specific. Above all, it was simple and served as an ice-breaker at the weekly exhibition held at the former turbine hall.

As part of Glasgow Open House Festival 2017, Southside Cinerama presents How the West Was Won in Cinerama.