Episodes
Published 03/01/20
Welcome to the eleventh episode of our podcast series. Listen below or via our CCA SoundCloud. Our March edition includes Abi Mordin from Glasgow Community Food Network discussing the Seed Library hosted at CCA, food sovereignty and upcoming Spring events; Martin Vincent from Aye-Aye Books on the history of the book shop in our foyer, new book shops in Glasgow, children's books and art publications; Sanne Jehoul and Matt Lloyd from Glasgow Short Film Festival talk about GSFF becoming...
Published 03/01/20
Welcome to the tenth episode of our podcast series. Our February edition includes Ainslie Roddick, former CCA curator, talking about our forthcoming Shuvinai Ashoona exhibition, artists working as a co-operative and visiting the north of Canada; Kitty Anderson from LUX Scotland looks ahead to an exciting year beginning with the Margaret Tait Award this month, screenings at GFT and a trip to Inverness; Samar Ziadat from Dardishi speaks about her upcoming festival of Arab and North African...
Published 02/01/20
Welcome to the ninth episode of our podcast series. Our January edition brings stories of food across the city, talks to people who are creating radical learning opportunities in Govan, explores Saramago Cafe Bar and the gigs that take place in CCA, and delves into a forgotten history of animal trials with Bambitchell, our next Creative Lab residents. Viviana Checchia, CCA Public Engagement Curator (53s) Rago Gurmu & Ruth Lamb, Govan Community Project (17m07s) Paul Smith, Saramago...
Published 12/30/19
Welcome to the eighth episode of our podcast series! - Basma alSharif, the artist behind our current exhibition, on the slippery meaning of 'philistine', the gallery as a site for political material, and the role of the nation state. - Alex Misick on CCA's open source programme and the opportunities offered to artists through Intermedia Gallery & Creative Lab residencies. - Jay and Calvin from Pity Party Film Club on taking control of the cinema, the joy of making other people laugh and...
Published 12/02/19
Welcome to the seventh episode of our podcast series. Listen via our CCA SoundCloud here. Pinar Aksu & Iman Tajik speak about the process of creating and curating The Sea of Paperwork, a project led by Maryhill Integration Network in collaboration with young people from across Glasgow; Eirene Houston from Havana Glasgow Film Festival on this year's programme and the black humour common to Glaswegian and Cuban culture; Gerry Rossi effuses about the spontaneity, reciprocity and inclusion...
Published 11/04/19
Welcome to the sixth episode of our podcast series, with Document Human Rights Film Festival, Grace Schwindt, Jasmina Cibic and Ron Athey. Across this series, Gareth K Vile (Theatre Editor of The List Magazine, who also blogs wild critical theory here) chats to some of the amazing people who make, produce and contribute to our programme: from artists, curators and programmers, to community organisers and social clubs. We'll take a deep dive into exhibitions, gigs, performances and events -...
Published 09/29/19
Multi-sensory performance with live sound-modulation with max/msp, turntables, broken/manipulated records, hydrophones, contact microphones, clarinette, ceramics and fabrics. 16 Feb 2019, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow Conception/script: Katherine Macbride Sound design/sonic conception/live mixing: Anna Frei Performing: Katherine Macbride, Anna Frei, Angelica Falkeling, Clara J:son Borg, Raluca Croitoru Programming max/msp: Nicolas Buzzi Access Consultation: Collective Text Special...
Published 09/24/19
Welcome to the fifth episode of our new podcast series. Across this series, Gareth K Vile chats to some of the amazing people who make and contribute to our programme: from artists, curators and programmers, to community organisers and social clubs. We'll take a deep dive into exhibitions, gigs, performances and events - exploring the ideas and ethos that underpin our approach to programming and how you can get involved. In this episode: - We meet Dmitry Vilensky & Nikolay Oleynikov,...
Published 09/02/19
Welcome to the fourth episode of our new podcast series. Across this series, Gareth K Vile chats to some of the amazing people who make and contribute to our programme: from artists, curators and programmers, to community organisers and social clubs. We'll take a deep dive into exhibitions, gigs, performances and events - exploring the ideas and ethos that underpin our approach to programming and how you can get involved. In this episode: Artistic Director of Cryptic Cathie Boyd talks...
Published 08/09/19
Welcome to the third episode of our new podcast series. Across this series, Gareth K Vile chats to some of the amazing people who make, produce and contribute to our programme: from artists, curators and programmers, to community organisers and social clubs. We'll take a deep dive into exhibitions, gigs, performances and events - exploring the ideas and ethos that underpin our approach to programming and how you can get involved. In this episode, Ainslie Roddick, Curator, CCA, discusses...
Published 07/03/19
Welcome to the second episode of our new podcast series. Gareth K Vile (Theatre Editor of The List Magazine. He also blogs wild critical theory) chats to some of the amazing people who make, produce and contribute to our programme: from artists, curators and programmers, to community organisers and social clubs. We'll take a deep dive into exhibitions, gigs, performances and events - exploring the ideas and ethos that underpin our approach to Open Source Programming and how you can get...
Published 06/03/19
Welcome to the first episode of our new podcast series. Across this series, Gareth K Vile (Theatre Editor of The List Magazine. He also blogs wild critical theory) will chat to some of the amazing people who make, produce and contribute to our programme; from artists, curators and programmers, to community organisers and social clubs. We'll take a deep dive into exhibitions, gigs, performances and events - exploring the ideas and ethos that underpin our approach to Open Source Programming...
Published 05/07/19
Studio Lunches was an autonomous podcast project by Chris MacInnes, supported by CCA. Its goal was to open up artists’ practices within Glasgow through conversation, exploring the diverse, obscure and intriguing interests that reside at the heart of this. This week I chatted to Katherine Ka Yi Liu about what she’s been working on recently. Katherine has a long-standing interest in language and identity and the mutations they have been subjected to under colonialism. We talk about how the...
Published 09/18/18
Studio Lunches was an autonomous podcast project by Chris MacInnes, supported by CCA. Its goal was to open up artists’ practices within Glasgow through conversation, exploring the diverse, obscure and intriguing interests that reside at the heart of this. For this episode I met up with Mathew Parkin to talk about his practice. Mathew uses documentary and archival techniques within his video works as a means of exploring the elusive subjective histories of those close to him. The discussion...
Published 09/18/18
Studio Lunches was an autonomous podcast project by Chris MacInnes, supported by CCA. Its goal was to open up artists’ practices within Glasgow through conversation, exploring the diverse, obscure and intriguing interests that reside at the heart of this. This week I went to meet Sulaïman Majali. Sulaïman is an artist based in Glasgow who recently presented a video installation with the V&A Lates program in London. We decided to begin by talking about rocks and the interest and...
Published 09/04/18
Studio Lunches was an autonomous podcast project by Chris MacInnes, supported by CCA. Its goal was to open up artists’ practices within Glasgow through conversation, exploring the diverse, obscure and intriguing interests that reside at the heart of this. This time around I caught up with Stephanie Hier over Skype, which turned out to be a pretty appropriate format for our conversation. Stephanie had a recent exhibition at David Dale Gallery, which we take as our starting point in...
Published 08/23/18
Studio Lunches was an autonomous podcast project by Chris MacInnes, supported by CCA. Its goal was to open up artists’ practices within Glasgow through conversation, exploring the diverse, obscure and intriguing interests that reside at the heart of this. For this episode I went to chat with Christian Noelle Charles during her Creative Lab Residency at CCA. CC’s practice uses performance, video and sound to explore ideas of self-love and self-knowledge, often making use of intuitive or...
Published 08/23/18
Studio Lunches was an autonomous podcast project by Chris MacInnes, supported by CCA. Its goal was to open up artists’ practices within Glasgow through conversation, exploring the diverse, obscure and intriguing interests that reside at the heart of this. This episode is a loose conversation with Adrien Howard around their exhibition "There is No Visible Route to the Vanishing Point", at Intermedia Gallery, CCA. The exhibition took the form of a single-channel video exploring the occurence...
Published 08/05/18
Studio Lunches was an autonomous podcast project by Chris MacInnes, supported by CCA. Its goal was to open up artists’ practices within Glasgow through conversation, exploring the diverse, obscure and intriguing interests that reside at the heart of this. A Crypt of Living Timbre (idiom) 1. A phrase used to describe something as having a confusing or contradictory nature, due to it’s state as living or non-living. 2. A presence of life or liveliness in something that otherwise appears...
Published 07/26/18
Studio Lunches was an autonomous podcast project by Chris MacInnes, supported by CCA. Its goal was to open up artists’ practices within Glasgow through conversation, exploring the diverse, obscure and intriguing interests that reside at the heart of this. For this episode I got together with Anna and Tomas to chat about their performance, "Auto Cue". The performance investigated and reconfigured media tropes through the format of the shipping forecast. Of course we talked about the...
Published 07/18/18
Ross Birrell in conversation with Filipa Ramos
Published 04/30/18
Susannah Stark talks about the works exhibited in Lilt, Twang, Tremor, alongside Sarah Rose and Hanna Tuulikki.
Published 03/27/18
Research is the pursuit of truth, through practices of curiosity and care. Truth does not mean fact rather than fantasy, but the unison of experience and imagination in a world to which we are alive and that is alive to us. Amidst panic that we have entered a ‘post-truth’ era, however, truth itself risks being devalued even by those who spring to its defence. It is reduced to an objectification that only further exacerbates our sense of separation from the things that concern us. In this...
Published 03/05/18
In this talk, Paul O’Neill will attempt to bridge recent discussions around curatorship, public art and urban practice by a reimagining of research methodologies through duration. More info: http://bit.ly/2Eaz6PO
Published 01/25/18