A Breath to Follow | Part One

[Click here for live English language version] Part One – Periferia Segue Sangrando (Periphery Keeps Bleeding) and Carni - Coletivo de Arte Negra e Indígena (Black and Indigenous Art Collective) Vancouver 10:00 - 13:00 / São Paulo 14:00 - 17:00 / Glasgow 17:00 - 20:00 Two days of online discussions and artists presentations exploring the cosmological, decolonial, sensorial practises of Black and Indigenous grass roots art, dance and music collectives in Brazil. ⟶

A gathering of people in a dark room, dancing and socialising, everyone forms a rough circle around the edges of the room, in the centre of the room on the floor, spot-lit is a colourful circular art work by Angelo Fabio.

A Breath to Follow | Part Two

[Click here for live English language version] Part Two – Turmalina and Chama Vancouver 10:00 - 13:00 / São Paulo 14:00 - 17:00 / Glasgow 18:00 - 21:00 Two days of online discussions and artists presentations exploring the cosmological, decolonial, sensorial practises of Black and Indigenous grass roots art, dance and music collectives in Brazil. ⟶

A composite black and white photograph showing three figures. The person on the left is looking away from the camera with their eyes closed, lips pursed and hand held up to their ear as if to demonstrate listening. The person in the middle gazes off to one side, mouth slightly open, perhaps speaking, the person on the left looks directly and intensely into the camera, there is a dark liquid dripping across one eye and down their face.

Artist talk with Annalee Davis and Amanda Thomson

To coincide with the exhibition lightly, tendrils the artists Annalee Davis and Amanda Thomson will be in conversation with associate curator Alaya Ang. This conversation is an invitation to not only stop and look at what is before us, but to take the time to be with the artists to create insights born out of open-ended questions and discussion. ⟶

A TV placed on the floor, the screen shows an image of grass and a blue flower, there is wall in the background with an abstract projection partly shown

Black Curators Collective Melanie Keen: Kith and Kin

Join us for a Kith and Kin: the importance of being networked, a live online talk by Melanie Keen, Director of Wellcome Collection. She will set the tone of Meandering Networks, Mapping Nations by reflecting on the themes and programme declaration. ⟶

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Composting Settler Nationalisms

Who defines what soil is and determines how it is used and cared for? Following the 22nd World Congress of Soil Science – Crossing Boundaries, Changing Society and the current exhibition We are Compost / Composting the We at the CCA, CCA Annex will host a series of online performance lectures and dialogues in a process of collaborative thinking between art, science and ancestral ways of knowing. ⟶

An artificial mound in a forest, there are tire tracks in front. The mound is filled with brightly coloured objects

Confluence: A Beaver’s Tooth, a Dam, and a Chorus of Gurgling Streams

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. ⟶

Two women in an arid environment run toward each other in long black gowns. The image has a burn mark to the left hand side

Glasgow Seed School: Growing food is a radical act

Hear Claire Ratinon in conversation with Martha Adonai Williams about the joy of growing and the legacy of colonialism in horticulture. Over the last year, many of us have turned towards growing our own food. ⟶

close up image of plants with a woman seen behind them against a sunset sky

Glasgow Seed School: Seed Stories, Fugitive Ecologies

How do stories evolve with seeds? How are they kept? How do they resist capture? Seeds are deeply entangled with the stories of our bodies, migrations, ecologies and resistances. Their histories trace instances of human adaptation, survival and creativity. ⟶

Glasgow Seed School: Seeds are our living relatives

Seeds are a vital part of the food sovereignty movement around the world. As well as securing healthy nourishment, seed keeping helps to sustain indigenous culture, language and stories. Over several years, Elizabeth Hoover has visited Native American farm communities and seed saving projects, documenting efforts to rebuild and maintain traditional food systems. ⟶

LUNA: Live Screening + Conversation

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. ⟶

an abstract image of orange and pink blurred spheres with 2D blue toned circles in the foreground of the image

Soil Interfaces and Interactions

Who defines what soil is and determines how it is used and cared for? Following the 22nd World Congress of Soil Science – Crossing Boundaries, Changing Society and the current exhibition We are Compost / Composting the We at the CCA, CCA Annex is hosting a series of online performance lectures and dialogues in a process of collaborative thinking between art, science and ancestral ways of knowing. ⟶

image bare looking palm trees and saplings in a quarry, the earth is exposed and red in colour

Soot Breath / Corpus Infinitum (Screening), Treble Heaven (Performance) + Q&A

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 here. ⟶

Telegraphing the Dead through Soil

The regenerative landscapes of soil are forged by minerals, soil organic matter, living organisms, gas, and water into which the webs of life are woven. Soil recycles organic molecules into bioavailable forms mainly through countless oxidation-reduction (redox) reactions, which involve a transfer of electrons between two different types of chemistry, comprising one of Earth's most potent sources of energy. ⟶

2 people looking down with trees towering overhead split into multiple images, in the middle image they hold a sign saying “end of me”

That place you go to play, out of the way

Welcome to the launch of Holly White’s new publication and computer game about community, growing vegetables and utopias. Weaving together speculative narratives and historical accounts, Leaving Biosphere 2 is a role-playing game set in a post-apocalyptic future. ⟶

The Genome Chronicles with Celine Gallery

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. ⟶

The image is a grainy film still from the Genome Chronicles by John Akomfrah showing a cropped image of a trophy on a yellow background. The trophy has a representation of a football player kicking a ball on top of it, it is cropped so that the head of the football player is not visible.

The Need to be Cold

A conversation and artistic intervention on the effects of global warming that threaten the livelihood of Indigenous peoples in the arctic region. For this panel the Goethe-Institut invites experts to discuss ‘Green Colonialism’ and Indigenous self-determination in the North. ⟶

Unearthed

Who defines what soil is and determines how it is used and cared for? Following the 22nd World Congress of Soil Science – Crossing Boundaries, Changing Society and the current exhibition We are Compost / Composting the We at the CCA, CCA Annex is hosting a series of online performance lectures and dialogues in a process of collaborative thinking between art, science and ancestral ways of knowing. ⟶

A woman (Claire Ratinon), stands outside against a wood panel wall cradling a chicken

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Winnie Herbstein and Joey Simons in conversation with Cathy McCormack

Continuing our dialogue with Winnie Herbstein following her film and exhibition project Dampbusters that featured in the CCA gallery spaces Fri 6 August — Sat 4 September 2021, we hosted a live online-only conversation on CCA Annex at 6.30pm, 19 January 2022 between Winnie, Cathy McCormack and Joey Simons. ⟶

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