SCAN DECADES

‘Stepping into the Carrying Stream’ with Ainslie Roddick and Mairi McFadyen

Speaking from their lived experiences in Highland and Island communities, this online lunchtime discussion between independent freelancer and creative collaborator, Mairi McFadyen and Director of ATLAS Arts, Ainslie Roddick was a mediative reflection on the possibilities open to us through exploring ideas such as degrowth, radical localism, cultural equity, value, language, naming invisible work and ecologies of exchange.  

Held on Tuesday 13th June, Online via Zoom

Intro music from Echo in the Dark by Hanna Tuulikki and Tommy Perman

‘Orienting Ourselves Towards Hope’ with Myriam Mouflih and Amahra Spence 

In a landscape of ever increasing precarity and decreasing public funds, where people are asked to do more with less, curator Myriam Mouflih invited founder of MAIA Group, Amahra Spence, to Glasgow for a conversation about how we can orientate ourselves towards hope. Using the various strands of MAIA’s work as inspiration for their conversation, they discussed how abolitionist thinking shapes their approach to creative practice, and how they embed this in the work that they each do. They also detail the practical implimentation of these methodologies with real-world examples put into practice in MAIA's projects Yard and ABUELOS: Artist Hotel. 

Held on Tuesday 25th April 2023 at The Deep End, Glasgow 

Intro music from Echo in the Dark by Hanna Tuulikki and Tommy Perman

'Instituting Disobedience' with Sarah Munro and Laura Raicovich 

We continued our public programme with a discussion between New York-based curator, writer, and author of Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest, Laura Raicovich and Sarah Munro, Director of BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. Reflecting on their experiences of leading institutions through times of political turmoil, this session probed the question of what’s at stake when arts organisations uphold an image of neutrality. Sharing different approaches to supporting the survival and resistance of culture across contexts, the panellists offered their thinking on the pressures imminently facing the global contemporary art community. 

Held on Tuesday 28th February 2023, Online via Zoom

Intro music from Echo in the Dark by Hanna Tuulikki and Tommy Perman

‘Visioning Possibilities, Incubating Change’ with Adele Patrick and Imandeep Kaur

SCAN launched the live DECADES programme with a discussion between Birmingham-based civic organiser Imandeep Kaur and Adele Patrick, co-founder and director of Glasgow Women’s Library. This session explores creative leadership, endurance, exhaustion, and reflective practice, drawing from Kaur and Patrick’s shared experience of changemaking in post-industrial urban contexts, offering strategies for working with communities to envisage and build futureproof public resources in an unfair world. 

Held on Thursday 9th February 2023 at 5 Florence Street, Glasgow 

Intro music from Echo in the Dark by Hanna Tuulikki and Tommy Perman