Craig McCorquodale and Molly Jack

24 Things to Tell You was a 24 hour public artwork, where a different intervention unfolded on Sauchiehall Street every hour of the day, for a whole extraordinary day.

Living on the street for two years, artist Craig McCorquodale watched Sauchiehall Street fall into a kind of non-place - with dilapidated buildings, fallen retail environments and fire-ravaged sites throwing up urgent questions of purpose. What is this street for? Who decides what a city is? Why should the failure of big business and regulation deprive people from a street pulsating with memories?

Responding to these questions, Molly Jack and Craig McCorquodale rallied local people and businesses on Sauchiehall Street to install a plurality of opinions, memories or future visions of the street in public space. Capturing a sense of Glasgow’s complex and enduring relationship to Sauchiehall Street, these happenings occurred consecutively and offered surprising, intimate, humorous, reflective, confessional or outspoken takes on life here. 

From nightclubs to shawarma shops, shop windows and outdoor interventions, Craig and Molly invited people to think twice about Sauchiehall Street. Working closely with individuals and groups, they honoured people's connection to the street by involving them in the production of each intervention, and giving them a platform for their voices and opinions to be heard. This in turn generated more questions and conversations with the passers by on the street experiencing the interventions in real time.

24 Things to Tell You took place on Friday 11 April 12:00pm, and ended Saturday 12 April 12:00pm.

Find the full schedule here.

All 24 interventions were documented and shared live on via the People Make Glasgow Instagram in real time.

Craig McCorquodale is an artist working across a range of contexts, but mainly performance. His enduring interest is in collaborating with people who might never have done anything like this before, inviting unusual constituencies of people into unmissable, unforgettable artworks. He thinks of this as Social Sculpture: working with the experience people have of their own lives to create radical, vital and beautiful events. In recent years, Craig has made work in large theatre spaces, swimming pools, libraries, city parks, churches and construction sites, working with children, policemen, ballroom dancers, football teams, a 100 year-old, an embalmer and a town crier.

Craig has worked with National Theatre of Scotland and Take Me Somewhere Festival, Wunder der Prärie Festival at Zeitraumexit, Lyra, Culture Collective, FABRIC and Evergreen Brick Works in Toronto.

Molly Jack is a visual artist working across sculpture, installation and new media. Graduating from the Sculpture and Environmental Art Programme at Glasgow School of Art, Molly has worked with the materiality of the city to disrupt the rhythms of the everyday, playing with intimacy and anonymity. Molly has a particular interest in the ethical questions surrounding socially engaged practice, with themes of her work often reflecting ideas of love, family, memory and the artist's gaze. Molly has recently been working with supporting adults experiencing addiction, supporting people across the city, and now seeks to draw upon these experiences within her artistic practice.