throughout the ground floor

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   ‘What I liked about [the lines] was their colour and the way they made a colourful intervention in this quite self-consciously cool space. They seemed playful and renegade and like they didn’t care what the rules of the Tramway were.’
(Jen Harvie, February 2008)

 

‘I loved exploring the building […] the way the lines led you places you might not normally go.’
(Visitor, interviewed 16 February 2008)

 

‘Bryan Saner sees the Tramway in an old/ new lens.’
(comment in visitors’ book)

 

'It's a bit odd to be invited to navigate around the ground floor along the tramlines and then be told, on looking behind a curtain on the green line "excuse me, don't go there - it's a staff space."'
(Comment in visitors' book)

 

  

 

  Despite the sanctioning of this intervention by Tramway’s management, and by representatives from all of Tramway’s departments, Tramway’s technicians conducted an ongoing, unofficial - and, at times, humorous, campaign to stop the coloured lines passing through ‘their’ area. Ultimately, this resulted in their barricading themselves into a corner of the backstage space, removing the coloured line that entered this area, and fixing a sign to the temporary wall that they had constructed reading ‘no trams here’.