Introduction

A WORLD FIRST

Stormy Waters will be the largest, most exciting and innovative live event taking place in Britain in 1995. NVA are working with digital artists, electronic musicians, designers, film-makers, drummers, performers, computer and marine technologists.

Stormy Waters is being staged at the breathtaking Meadowside Granary - the largest brick building in Scotland - which overlooks the River Clyde to Kvaerner Govan Shipyards - the only working yard in the upper reaches of the river.

The show explores a city simultaneously trapped by its past and willing to face its future. Using huge images, soundscapes, text and movement the entire site is activated. The old Glasgow rooted in huge civic buildings, nostalgia and class hierarchies is atomised - we can see the ancient institutions of Great Britain imploding to reveal new possibilities for a digital democracy.... using The Internet. Artists from five continents will beam re-manipulated images from the show direct to the site computers which will then translate the images onto large screens. The results can be viewed through a live broadcast back out over The Internet, thus launching Glasgow's position as City of Architecture and Design 1999.