{"id":517,"date":"2012-03-19T18:26:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T17:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/?p=517"},"modified":"2022-11-12T20:55:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T19:55:05","slug":"lifeguard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/lifeguard\/","title":{"rendered":"lifeguard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few short days in Glasgow, catching up with old friends and new &#8211; discussing <em>Lifeguard<\/em>, a new work with Adrian Howells and the National Theatre of Scotland, planned for this coming autumn. A work that hopes to locate itself within a recently derelict public baths in the city, requiring at least a partial restoration of one area of the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been asked to look at light. And am very happy to do just that. In a site that can only clarify my ideas as I work with it. And stood amongst the familiar functionality of its well used social space, the questions and puzzles raised by the architecture of this intimate place &#8211; echoing those running through much of my current work &#8211; are also usefully functional and familiar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How to reveal and animate this place, temporarily rebalancing it for a new purpose, without denying either it or our intervention, and without turning it into somewhere else?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am looking forward to finding a balance for those questions here, and other places, over the coming months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/howells\/lifeguard\/baths01.jpg\" alt=\"pool tiles #1\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few short days in Glasgow, catching up with old friends and new &#8211; discussing Lifeguard, a new work with Adrian Howells and the National Theatre of Scotland, planned for this coming autumn. A work that hopes to locate itself within a recently derelict public baths in the city, requiring at least a partial restoration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaborations","category-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}