CCA Podcast

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 womxn’s contemporary art and culture, zines and having a DIY ethos; Karen Anderson from Indepen-dance talks about the history of the company, Monday workshops in CCA and the International Inclusive Dance Festival, and Allison Gardner from Glasgow Film Festival discusses their 2020 programme, finding your tribe and the impact of small changes. Kitty Anderson, Director of LUX Scotland: 41s Allison Gardner, Co-Director, Glasgow Film Festival: 10m 05s Ainslie Roddick, Curator of Shuvinai Ashoona's Holding on to Universes and Artistic Director of ATLAS, Skye: 23m 41s Karen Anderson, Director of Indepen-dance: 35m 01s Samar Ziadat, Director of Dardishi Festival: 45m 45s **Where to listen** You can listen to our podcast on Soundcloud, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, including Apple iTunes and Google Podcasts. **About the podcast** Across this series, Gareth K Vile chats to some of the amazing people who make, produce and contribute to our programme including artists, curators, musicians, performers, event organisers, CCA staff and community project leaders. We'll take a closer look at exhibitions, gigs, performances and events - exploring the ideas and ethos that underpin our approach to programming and how you can get involved. Thank you to everyone who took part and to Unclassed Media & Sunny Govan Community Radio. Image: Jamie Crewe, Ashley, 2020.

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 Cafe Bar (31m 47s) Sharlene Bamboat & Alexis Mitchell , Bambitchell (43m 05s) 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 close look at exhibitions, gigs, performances and events - exploring the ideas and ethos that underpin our approach to programming and how you can get involved. Thank you to everyone who took part and to Unclassed Media & Sunny Govan Community Radio. Image: Ingrid Mur

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 films of female friendship. - Lisandro Suriel, artist and Tilting Axis Fellow 19/20 on harnessing the imagination and reclaiming Caribbean narratives. Timings: Basma alSharif, artist (55s) Alex Misick, CCA (15m) Pity Party Film Club (28m) Lisandro Suriel, artist (41m 36s) Across this series, Gareth K Vile (Theatre Editor of The List Magazine) 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 take a look at exhibitions, gigs, performances and events - exploring the ideas and ethos that underpin our approach to programming and how you can get involved. Thank you to everyone who took part and to Unclassed Media & Sunny Govan Community Radio.

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 that underpins GIOfest, Glasgow's annual festival of improvisation; and Travis Alabanza on breaking the rules of theatre and how making a burger can open up a conversation about complicity in transphobia. Pinar Aksu & Iman Tajik, The Sea of Paperwork & Maryhill Integration Network (55s) Eirene Houston, Havana Glasgow Film Festival (15m 24s) Gerry Rossi, GIOfest (32m 45s) Travis Alabanza, performance (46m 30s) 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 - exploring the ideas and ethos that underpin our approach to programming and how you can get involved. Thank you to everyone who took part and to Unclassed Media & Sunny Govan Community Radio.

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 - exploring the ideas and ethos that underpin our approach to programming and how you can get involved. Timings Sanne Jehoul & Sam Kenyon (Document Film Festival) - (47s) Grace Schwindt (artist) - (15m 39s) Jasmina Cibic (artist) - (29m 28s) Ron Athey (artist) - (37m 56s) Thank you to everyone who took part and to Unclassed Media & Sunny Govan Community Radio.

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, two members of Russian art collective Chto Delat, whose collaboration emerged in a performative protest against the militarisation of St Petersburg; - Helen Wright discusses this year's Scottish Queer International Film Festival, which aims to address questions of religion, race and disability, while creating a welcoming space for queer people. - János Lang introduces Ando Glaso, an organisation celebrating Roma creativity and presence in Glasgow, and he describes how traveller communities have always been entertainers, picking up and transforming local cultures. - Tamara Van Strijthem & Kirsty Somerville offer their highlights of this year's Take One Action Film Festival, and talk about the need to balance hard issues with empowerment – inspiring people to take action in their communities. Dmitry Vilensky & Nikolay Oleynikov, Chto Delat - (47s) Helen Wright, SQIFF - (15m 39s) János Lang, Ando Glaso - (29m 28s) Tamara Van Strijthem & Kirsty Somerville, Take One Action - (37m 56s) Thank you to everyone who took part and to Unclassed Media & Sunny Govan Community Radio.

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 about peatland cultures and art-science collaborations, and what we can expect at Sonica this year; Kevin Morris of Fallen Angels Club muses on a decade of bringing Americana, folk and old country music to Glasgow ears; Megan and Sean from Matchbox Cineclub explain their ethos of cult films and cult audiences, their sliding scale for tickets and the thinking behind upcoming events Scalarama, Sing-along-SAW and Weird Weekend; Tawona Sithole discusses his long-running Seeds of Thought programme, the moment when you start to feel part of a place and where his passion for storytelling comes from. Cathie Boyd, Cryptic - (40s) Kevin Morris, Fallen Angels Club - (25m 20s) Megan Mitchell & Sean Welsh, Matchbox Cineclub (35m 43s) Tawona Sithole, Seeds of Thought (46m 45s) Thank you to everyone who took part and to Unclassed Media & Sunny Govan Community Radio.

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 our summer exhibition programme Some things want to run and the brand new Glasgow Seed Library. Carrie Skinner chats ghosts, Gothic and disco ahead of her show let the music play on and on and on and on and on and on and on; Mele Broomes from V/DA talks about Sonic Séance: The Gathering which spans an exhibition, workshops, reading groups and performance; Ninian Perry of Paragon looks ahead to their week of inclusive dance and live music workshops for young adults with additional support needs; Najma Abukar introduces Home and Hospitality – a crockery set for the city of Glasgow and an artistic collaboration between artists Ruth Impey and Najma Abukar, in partnership with food-led social business Küche; while Clo Meehan discusses this year's Free Pride, the mainstream queer scene and the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall riots. Ainslie Roddick, CCA - (12s) Carrie Skinner - (13m 22s) Mele Broomes, V/DA - (25m 16s) Ninian Perry, Paragon - (35m 31s) Najma Abukar - (44m 36s) Clo Meehan, Free Pride - (52m 50s) Thank you to everyone who took part and to Unclassed Media & Sunny Govan Community Radio.

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 involved. In this episode, Sabrina Henry (Assistant Curator, CCA) discusses projects for Refugee Festival Scotland and how plants can act as witnesses to the history of colonialism; Sha Nazir takes us behind the scenes of Bold Heart Publishing, and getting comic artists out into the community; artist Emilia Beatriz talks about their current exhibition 'declarations on soil and honey' and the historic land struggle that connects Scotland and Puerto Rico; Louise Oliver introduces Persistent and Nasty and being in a room of crackling rage, while Viviana Checchia (Public Engagement Curator, CCA) and Johnny Rodger share their thinking on bringing art and society together through projects like The Cooking Pot and Political Animal. Sabrina Henry on Refugee Festival Scotland -(10s) Sha Nazir, BHP & Glasgow ComicCon (6m 54s) Emilia Beatriz on her current exhibition at CCA (19m) Louise Oliver of Persistent and Nasty (34m 10s) Viviana Checchia on The Cooking Pot (42m 10s) Johnny Rodger on Political Animal(46m 30s) Gareth K Vile - closing words and thanks (59m 12s) Thank you to everyone who took part and to Unclassed Media & Sunny Govan Community Radio.

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 and how you can get involved. In this episode, we hear from CCA Director Francis Mckee; exhibiting artist Shadi Habib Allah; Take Me Somewhere producer LJ Findlay-Walsh; the 'Torvill and Dean of the avant-garde', Radiophrenia producers Mark Vernon & Barry Burns; and Glasgow-based Mexican artist, Catalina Barroso-Luque. Francis Mckee - (50s) *Music* - Otoboke Beaver | *Suki Suki Darling* (14m 03s) LJ Findlay-Walsh - (16m 48s) Shadi Habib Allah - (24m 08s) Mark Vernon & Barry Burns - (37m - 13s) *Sound* - Radiophrenia excerpt - (42m 20s) Catalina Barroso-Luque - (49m 55s) Thanks to everyone who participated in this show and to Unclassed Media & Sunny Govan Community Radio.

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 Chinese language, her life in Hong-Kong, Chinese-British mashup meals and the colonial past of the city. Through anecdotal experience Katherine talks me through the changes in her cultural history and helps trace a path to the pressures of assimilation and cultural erasure written into globalisation. Audio featured: - excerpt from The kind of things that we fight against everyday but they ignore us, they silence us and they are still doing it, by Katherine Ka Yi Liu

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 here begins with an exploration of intimacy within video art and online. From there we weave our way through ideas of high cinema versus home video, as well as the tropes of iPhone footage and YouTube videos. Mathew helps me to unpick how love and vulnerability are lived and presented within our media-centred lives and in doing so offers us a space of comfort and touching awkwardness within the slick digital spaces we inhabit. Audio featured: - excerpt from I Believe In You by Mathew Parkin - excerpt from Vaseline by Mathew Parkin

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 importance of them to Sulaïman’s practice. Rocks feature frequently in his work; as body, as weapon and as physical history. From there Sulaïman guides me through the influence of Arabic poetry, the politics of the artefact within institutional space and digital space and the utopic/dystopic duality of CGI. These ideas lead us into a discussion on the quantum nature of diasporas and the resistive potential of speculative practices and unanswered questions. Audio featured: excerpt from this garden, this performed home that incessantly grows (scene 8; eulogy for an unnamed poet/wedding of guests) by Sulaïman Majali

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 discussing her work and interests in general. Beginning with an exploration of the phrase, “the flatness of possibility”, we talk about image production and time within the online media-sphere. This phrase captures how when diverse images from across histories and context become ungrounded in online contexts, resulting in a breakdown of narrative; a temporal and conceptual “flatness”. Through this episode she helps me to unpack the merits of painting as a slow tool in a high-speed culture. And in doing so offers us a means for negotiating our contemporary world of contextual slippage, entangled timelines and impulsively generated imagery.

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 improvised techniques. Through our conversation we touch upon how artistic practice can give joy to ourselves and audiences, whilst opening up paths to new ways of understanding and portraying ourselves in cultures where our identities are never entirely our own. Over the course of our chat CC argues that impulsivity and improvisation are important tools in resisting the pressures to self-edit our personalities for the social stage. Audio featured: -excerpt from Popping Karaoke by Christian Noelle Charles -excerpt from GASP by Christian Noelle Charles

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 of meta-physical events induced by a series of everyday objects. The exhibition, and Adrien's wider practice, touches upon sci-fi, realities and simulations and the gaps in linguistic communication. Here we tried to unpack some of the interests within their work. We chatted about The Lost Room, geological time, posthumanism, zombie shoot 'em-ups and time travel. Hope u like :) Audio featured: There is No Visible Route to the Vanishing Point by Adrien Howard Trailer for The Lost Room Game play from The House of The Dead 3D printer sample from user unfa at freesound.org

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 dead. 3. A presence of death or decay in something that otherwise appears living. 4. A trope used to allude to or acknowledge the presence of something of a mysterious, obstructed or unclear nature. It is used either literally as the name of a location, in conversation, or by form of symbolism. This episode is a chat with Brandon Cramm around his video installation, A Crypt of Living Timbre. The work explores the ways in which desktop and user environments influence interaction and expression, creating uncanny spaces where the living and the apparently ‘dead’ become almost indistinguishable. Taking net artist Olia Lialina’s essay, Rich User Experience, UX and Desktopization of War as a starting point we weave our way through the scripting of our online lives. Discussing online Shogi tournaments, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, UX design and the uncanniness of the digital world, we try to understand the crypt of living timbre we inhabit as users and netizens. Audio featured: A Crypt of Living Timbre by Brandon Cramm

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 weather! (we recorded this just after the big snow in Glasgow) As well as cruise ships, Brexit and Tony Blair v2.0. Within the discussion A+T guide me through the normalisation of crisis, the shifting Overton window and political futility. And in the process provide some small glimmers of hope beyond the storm. <3 Audio featured: BBC Weather coverage of The Beast from the East storm Trailer for 2015 re-release of Grey Gardens BBC Radio 4 shipping forcast, 14th Nov 2017 Score for Auto Cue by Haider Al Shybani

Ross Birrell in conversation with Filipa Ramos

Susannah Stark talks about the works exhibited in Lilt, Twang, Tremor, alongside Sarah Rose and Hanna Tuulikki.

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 climate, the meaning of research has been corrupted beyond recognition. It has become an industry of knowledge production, dedicated not to truth but to novelty and impact. How can art restore research to its proper vocation? – Professor Tim Ingold is the Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. His latest research and teaching is around the connections between anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture (the '4 As'), conceived as ways of exploring the relations between human beings and the environments they inhabit. Taking a radically different approach from the conventional anthropologies and archaeologies 'of' art and of architecture, which treat artworks and buildings as though they were merely objects of analysis, he is looking at ways of bringing together the 4 As on the level of practice, as mutually enhancing ways of engaging with our surroundings.

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

Lilt, Twang, Tremor Who Speaks? Who Listens? Nina Power with Laura Oldfield Ford by CCA_Glasgow