As part of the launch of our new project website Annex, CCA presents LUNA, a new series of works by the artist Anti-cool. Join this live screening event, followed by a short in-conversation between Anti-cool and Alex Misick at CCA. There will be limited places to participate in the Zoom event, while the in-conversation will be broadcast live over […]
As part of the CCA Glasgow exhibition, ambi, Raisa Kabir presents her new moving portrait and sculpture work responding to the textile geographies of labour between Kashmiri woven shawls, Paisley, Scotland, textile archives, and South Asian diasporic migration and displacement. The sculptural weaving, which features in the moving portrait, acts as a consequent reminder of the colonial […]
As part of the Donald Rodney exhibition at Celine, we are excited to present a screening of The Genome Chronicles by John Akomfrah in conjunction with the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow on CCA Annex followed by a discussion about the film and the work of Donald Rodney. Made in 2009 the film reflects on […]
War Without Bullets is a short film made for the United Nations 4th World Conference on Women to which Cathy McCormack was an invited speaker. The film showcases Cathy’s work as a global community, anti-poverty activist, raising awareness about ‘the war waged against the poor with briefcases instead of guns’. It highlights Cathy’s involvement in […]
Cathy McCormack’s ‘Evening Calls’ were aired on STV in 1993 as part of the ‘Thought for the Day’ series. They were a humorous approach to looking at the serious issues that faced her community. Damp housing, fuel poverty and poor health were an ongoing struggle, as well as the negative image of the schemes portrayed […]
A programme of video and newly commissioned texts that will unfold over the coming weeks and months. Part 1 offered a tribute and reflection: the film after which this series was named, Ruppert Gabriel’s Rage and Desire (1991) and ecstatic tendencies written by Harvey Dimond. Both works attend to the life and practice of photographer […]
Unmuted Cave available here via CCA Annex was originally exhibited as part of Sooun Kim and Wei Zhang’s Intermedia Gallery exhibition that ran from 19 August — 17 September 2021. Wei Zhang’s The Avulsed Rabbit, 2021 is also available on CCA Annex. Sooun Kim is a multidisciplinary visual artist with a background in music, painting […]
Formando Rutas is an educational project regarding the extraction of lithium in the Atacama Desert, the responsibility of the car industry, and the solutions beyond the individual electro-mobility. The objective of the project is to build a foundation for critical thinking of the hegemonic narratives and knowledges of the so-called Just Transition. It consists of […]
Patrick, 2020, Luke Fowler & Collective Hum, B.O.S.S, 2019 + writing by Martha Adonai Williams
CCA Glasgow and Ignota hosted Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva for a screening of and discussion about their new film Soot Breath / Corpus Infinitum with James Goodwin. Soot Breath / Corpus Infinitum was subsequently accompanied by a performance of Treble Heaven by Nisha Ramayya and MJ Harding both of which are available […]
For this second instalment of From Here a Home Was Imagined, Qigemu’s Reality Fragments 160921 will screen on Annex between December 9–16 alongside an interview with the artists.
In this final instalment of From Here a Home Was Imagined, associate film programmer Donald Butler brings together Ian Giles 2018 film AfterBUTT, with a commissioned audio response, I’m No Longer Listening, written and performed by Conner Milliken with sound design by Cameron Howard.
As part of the first iteration of our ‘school of water’, we invite you to join us for a series of events navigating rivers, dams and other in-land waterscapes as sites where both the politics and poetics of mobility, memory, sound, and landscape’s trans/formation come to play. This evening includes a lecture by artist, writer, […]
Queerness is very much rooted in the identity of the Indian subcontinent. Through scriptures such as the Kama Sutra, Mahabharata, and Artha-sastra. To the carvings of queer scenes all over temples throughout South Asia alongside the queer Urdu poetry known as Rekhti and Rekhta. This freedom of expression of sexuality and gender all changed with […]
Representation is important. That’s why I’ve included these two lovely films based in Glasgow! Happening both in-house on 14th October at our lovely cinema in the CCA and if you would rather watch it at home it will be available to watch here from the 14th till the 17th of October. P.S don’t listen to […]
Food, performance and poetry maker, Sean Wai Keung, invites community groups around the Garnethill area of Glasgow to teach him a recipe, and documents his attempts to recreate these recipes in his own tenement kitchen. He presents the resulting footage alongside information about the communities he collaborates with and poetry inspired by his time while making the dish.
Re-re-repeat A rhythmic dialogue between sound and image: exploring space, corporeal phenomenology and chance outcomes, which alter perceptions of time and memory. Scored by Wicks initially as graphic notations, then transcribed meticulously onto 16mm film. Moving image work that sit somewhere between drawing, animation and film and made using techniques including punching and drawing directly […]
Suite for Extended Compositions is an experimental response to six graphic scores composed by Wicks and remotely performed by Cello + Violin duo GAIA. The moving image work that accompanies is 100ft of hand painted 16mm film that was intended for installation and made in February 2020.
This film is the product of exchanges among students and the Kaingang people from Konhun Mág retaking in Canela, a tourist city in southern Brazil. It was filmed amongst the Araucária Forest, an endemic species of pine, which is both sacred for the Kaingang and also endangered by economic exploitation. The Kaingang are fighting for […]
The Moroccan Atlantic coastline is full of histories, mobilities, and transformations. What role do artists and filmmakers have in digging up and recounting these erased memories? What are their storytelling strategies? How do they use space to document and fictionalize what is already buried by time? Intersecting their practice and research, filmmaker Tarek Bouraque and […]
When Algeria gained independence from France in 1962, French president Charles de Gaulle urgently needed to find a new home for Kourou’s space base. Thanks to its ideal coastal position near the equator, he chose the little town of Kourou in the overseas territory of French Guiana. But no one gave a thought to the […]
LUNA creates a journey through the cyclical nature of life on a human and mythic level. Over two years, Anti-cool documented wild amphibians and reptiles, hoping to capture the sense of mystery surrounding life under the full moon, its effects on nature, the emergence of amphibians and even changes in human behaviour.
We’re delighted to present two screenings curated by our Associate Film Programmer Neha Apsara. Begana: Musing on Queer South Asian Stories will present rarely-screened films exploring queer South Asian life, identity and joy. The programme’s screenings will be Rooted in Glasgow and Diasporicity. Check back on the 14th and 22nd of October at 6pm for […]
