Questions

Questions of Democracy is a 24 hour durational artwork, where 24 texts are exhibited around public space each hour of the day.

Beginning at 12 noon and unfolding every hour for a whole day, the work is made in collaboration with local people to present 24 interventions that ask us to look more closely at the many rhythms of this place. Responding to an increasingly coarse lexicon from a polarised political context, the work interrogates the weight of language and its potential to imagine alternative narratives.

From sentences borrowed from much-loved books to statements re-appropriated from the political podium, for 24 hours each place the work is performed becomes a library of language. Words appear on water, on public buildings, on shipyards, on billboards, on beaches and on people, with each intervention shared in real time online or on a bespoke screen installed in public space.

Questions of Democracy premiered on Friday 1 September in Inverclyde (Scotland), the culmination of an Artist Residency with Inverclyde Libraries. Originally Commissioned by Inverclyde Culture Collective, Inverclyde Council and Inverclyde Libraries, supported by Creative Scotland.

This work is available for touring and would be entirely re-made in each new place over a 2 week period. The work actively engages libraries but would collaborate with a wide variety of local communities in the area, including those who might never have done anything like this before.

Please contact craigmccorquodaleartist@gmail.com to discuss further.