Current and future projects continue to interrogate relationships between ‘art’, ‘space/place’ and ‘audience’.

Her background and training was as a scenographer, working with companies and organisations that included The National Theatre of Scotland, Edinburgh International Festival, Scottish Ballet, London Contemporary Dance, The Tron Theatre (Glasgow), Dundee Rep, Contact (Manchester), The Traverse (Edinburgh), Suspect Culture (Glasgow), Anatomy Performance Company (Glasgow) and ek performance (Glasgow).

Minty Donald lectures in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow.

m.donald (at) tfts.arts.gla.ac.uk

Recent commissions and practice-as-research outputs

glimmers in limbo: Tramway
a suite of site-responsive interventions commissioned by Tramway (Glasgow) Feb - Mar 2008

glimmers in limbo: Britannia Panopticon
four site-responsive interventions at the Britannia Panopticon building (Glasgow) Oct 2007

Home: Stornoway
a performance project directed by Stewart Laing as one of the inaugural productions for the National Theatre of Scotland (Stornoway, Outer Hebrides) Feb 2006

the way I see it…
a series of site-specific interventions commissioned by the Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow) Nov - Dec 2004

Selected conference papers and publications

‘Tracing Tramlines: site-responsive interventions at Glasgow’s Tramway’,
Performance Research, vol 12, no 2, Jun 2007

‘Glimmers in Limbo: site-specific intervention as a strategy for shaping the built environment’
Centre for the Built Environment Journal, issue 12, Summer 2007

‘Pianola Karaoke and Other Attractions: performing heterotopias in a ruined music hall’,
Performance Studies International conference no 14, University of Copenhagen, Aug 2008

‘Glimmers in Limbo: pasts, presents and imagined futures’,
Performing Heritage conference, University of Manchester, Apr 2008

‘Performing Place Through Site-responsive Practice’,
Sensory Urbanism conference, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Jan 2008

‘Glimmers in Limbo: site-responsive intervention as a strategy for shaping conceptions of the built environment’,
Performance Studies International conference no 13, New York University, Nov 2007

‘Performing Space: site-specific projections at the Centre for Contemporary Art’,
Glasgow’, Site/Sight <> Source/Resource symposium, University of Exeter, Sept 2004

Forthcoming...

‘Pianola Karaoke and Other Attractions: resisting the homogenisation of cultural memory embedded in material sites’, an essay in Performance, Embodiment and Cultural Memory eds. Roberta Mock and Colin Counsell, Cambridge Scholars Press, publication due 2009