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. Cathy is an anti-poverty and housing […]
This conversation explores friendship, family, storytelling, gender-neutral language, activism and queer feminist networks in Lithuania. As part of her artistic practice, Agnė Jokšė creates proposals for a gender-neutral Lithuanian language, where every noun, pronoun and adjective is traditionally either masculine or feminine. This proposal prompts language users to face inherent linguistic biases and to attune […]
On 24th February 2022, postcolonialisms in Eastern Europe came to the surface again, symptomatic of the ongoing Russian imperialism in the region. The brutal invasion convened much discussion about the postsocialist condition, cultural sovereignty and the necessity of labouring together to find the possibilities of good living (buen vivir). These conversations were not new, but […]
Collective Dreaming is a three-part screening and research programme that weaves together Scottish, Ukrainian and Lithuanian moving images and thoughts in search of connection and collective liberation. To coincide with the in-person screenings at the CCA Cinema, we are presenting our research and conversations with artists and art workers in the CCA Annex, expanding the […]
Cathy McCormack is a housing and anti-poverty activist from Easthall in Easterhouse. A pivotal figure within her community, Cathy fought to raise awareness around the relationship of poor quality housing to the health and wellbeing of its inhabitants. Her activism in addressing Scotland’s housing crisis in the 1990s and the quality of housing led to […]
