We'd like to say a big thank you to everyone that joined us for the first event in our SCAN DECADES programme last night.
Keep your eye on our socials, where we will be releasing the event podcast soon.
In the meantime, why not book your free place at our upcoming events in February.
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‘I love you, you pay my rent’ with Dont Rhine, Kirsten Lloyd and Emma Saunders
Thursday 23 February, 7pm
Glasgow Women’s Library
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Join us for a conversation about the complex interfaces of contemporary art and the global housing crisis with Los Angeles-based artist and organiser Dont Rhine, curator and lecturer Kirsten Lloyd, and Emma Saunders, National Organiser with Living Rent. Artists, art workers and culture have long flourished where housing is affordable and the cost of living low. As economic hardship intensifies and cultural life seems increasingly instrumentalised by developers, this session asks what’s at stake amidst unchecked gentrification and how resistance might be imagined.
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‘Instituting Disobedience’ with Laura Raicovich and Sarah Munro
Tuesday 28 February, 7pm
Online, via Zoom
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New York-based curator and writer Laura Raicovich and Sarah Munro, Director of BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead reflect on their experiences of leading institutions through times of political turmoil. This session probes 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, Raicovich and Munro will offer their thinking on the pressures imminently facing the global contemporary art community.
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Travel
We are able to offer a small number of travel bursaries. Please see individual events for details and how to apply.
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Access
All in-person venues have step free access and good public transport links (SCAN encourages active travel to all events).
In-person events are live captioned and for online events AI-generated captioning will be available to attendees through an Otter.ai plugin.
Please contact programme@sca-net.org if you have any queries.
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About DECADES, our new event series
Marking our first ten years of activity by looking to the next ten years, DECADES is SCAN’s new programme of free conversational events. Matching friends, collaborators and alumni in Scotland with the thinkers, activists and organisers who inspire them, each 90-minute event will centre an issue prescient to the lives of artists, art workers and the wider public.
We know that the past few years have seen our contemporary art community work harder than ever in navigating the compound challenges of COVID-19, Brexit and an unfolding cost of living crisis. DECADES marks a conscientious pivot for SCAN, making a space away from the present tense to envisage futures with expertise summoned from across disciplines, experiences and borders.
DECADES is an invitation to think laterally about the world we want to build and what tools we’ll need to do so. With topics expected to include the future of arts education, artists and the housing crisis, new visions for civic space and institutional power, each event will ask what conditions are needed to make a liveable world for all and a thriving environment for contemporary art in Scotland.
DECADES will take place over a number of weeknight sessions, online and in venues across Scotland, between February and April 2023.
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