Skin of the City, Glasgow 2025

Choose an urban area. Spend some time walking its streets and studying its stony surfaces. Look out for small pieces of lithic material that have broken or chipped or flaked from a road, pavement or wall. If one of these fragments of stone catches your attention, stop, and ask it if it will come with you. If you think it has agreed, thank the fragment and pick it up. Repeat until you have enough pieces of stone.

Skin of the City was a project about the stony surfaces of Glasgow, made with the support of New Future and GALLANT (University of Glasgow) for Architecture Fringe 2025.

The Skin of the City exhibition shared documentation of the enactment of two scores, Rolling Stone Drift and Skin of the City, made by Minty and Nick, with Catrina Isaacson, Joseph Strang, and Isabel Westlake.

Skin of the City documentation: 3000+ fragments of stony material collected in areas along the north and south banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow. The fragments were installed on the gallery floor, each located precisely using GPS data to create a scaled lithic map of the city.

Skin of the City, Strange Field, Glasgow, Architecture Fringe 2025

Photo credits: Ingrid Mur

Rolling Stone Drift documentation: 5 videos of Rolling Stone Drift enacted by Minty in Madrid, Spain and New York City, USA, displayed on mobile phones.