Later this week, a text- and performance-based art project will stun travellers on trains across Scotland. Here Now, There Now was conceived by artist Pernille Spence, in collaboration with Scottish-based artist Anthony Schrag, writer Raman Mundair and London based feature film choreographer Litza Bixler. It has been devised to introduce subtle changes to the landscape alongside busy commuter routes and until now has remained largely secretive in order to maintain an element of surprise for passengers. Spence wants to "change the experience of the journey for those that use these routes on a daily basis."

The project is due to take place alongside the main rail lines between Aberdeen to Dundee on the 4th, Dundee to Edinburgh on the 5th and finally from Edinburgh to Glasgow on the 6th June. Each of the works will last for a short period, intended to be seen only as trains pass by, and will be repeated at various locations along each route. The three main actions, carried out by willing volunteers, will include a combination of lying, running and dance inspired by popular routines, for approximately five seconds at a time.

So, what exactly can we expect from the performances? Schrag says: "I'm developing some work that acts in response to Pernille's - whereas hers are contemplative, refined and laid-back; I'm a bit more physical and frenetic and will be organizing men/women in suits to run at the trains as they pass, as if they were trying to catch them. Imagine a slightly psychotic and surreal business person, trapped in the landscape, who believes they could get into the train as its passing at full speed."

Each artist has their own inspiration for their pieces.  Anthony identifies Samuel Beckett: "The ideas are quite influenced by Beckett and the ideas in Waiting For Godot in the sense that the characters wait for an imminent utopia that will not and cannot arrive. The same sentiments were believed about the trains, that on development they would change the world and utopia would arrive, which it never did. In the same way, these characters make the gesture, almost knowing that they will fail, but it's about that gesture."