Studio Lunches was an autonomous podcast project by Chris MacInnes, supported by CCA. Its goal was to open up artists’ practices within Glasgow through conversation, exploring the diverse, obscure and intriguing interests that reside at the heart of this.

For this episode I went to chat with Christian Noelle Charles during her Creative Lab Residency at CCA. CC’s practice uses performance, video and sound to explore ideas of self-love and self-knowledge, often making use of intuitive or improvised techniques.

Through our conversation we touch upon how artistic practice can give joy to ourselves and audiences, whilst opening up paths to new ways of understanding and portraying ourselves in cultures where our identities are never entirely our own. Over the course of our chat CC argues that impulsivity and improvisation are important tools in resisting the pressures to self-edit our personalities for the social stage.

Audio featured:

-excerpt from Popping Karaoke by Christian Noelle Charles

-excerpt from GASP by Christian Noelle Charles