{"id":959,"date":"2012-10-12T17:41:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T16:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/?p=959"},"modified":"2022-11-12T21:12:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T20:12:11","slug":"a-pool-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/a-pool-of-water\/","title":{"rendered":"a pool of water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My last day in Glasgow, of this visit, where I have been lighting the teaching pool room of a recently derelict WW1 period public bath house&nbsp;in the city&#8217;s south side &#8211; structuring the light within its tiled walls, using only the skylight openings and internal fixtures provided by its existing architecture. The pool hosts <em>Lifeguard<\/em>, an intimate devised work by Adrian Howells for the National Theatre of Scotland, made and located within the contested site of the Govanhill Baths, now in the hands of a voluntary trust of locals, who continue to work for its renovation and redevelopment. Our reinstatement of the teaching pool has &#8211; amongst other things &#8211; resulted in the pool being full of water, and publicly used, for the first time in eleven years&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/howells\/lifeguard\/pool01.jpg\" alt=\"Govanhill teaching pool\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last day in Glasgow, of this visit, where I have been lighting the teaching pool room of a recently derelict WW1 period public bath house&nbsp;in the city&#8217;s south side &#8211; structuring the light within its tiled walls, using only the skylight openings and internal fixtures provided by its existing architecture. The pool hosts Lifeguard, [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaborations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","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=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2446,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/2446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}