Various Events The Ignorant Art School

Red lettering on brilliant yellow background announcing twelve-hour sit-in revel. © 2018 The Otolith Group

Sat, 25.06.2022

11:00 AM - 11:00 PM BST

Dundee Botanic Garden

The Otolith Group, O Horizon, 2018, film still.

12-Hour Sit-in Revel

Join us in Dundee Botanic Garden for a 12-hour revel of conversation, performance, music, screenings, and workshops to re-imagine art education and unsettle systems of knowledge.

The event is part of Cooper Gallery’s ongoing project The Ignorant Art School, imagining art education anew and unsettling systems of knowledge. It brings together contributions from artists, activists, culture workers, educators, musicians, performers, students, thinkers, writers, and various communities in Scotland and from around the world to constitute a ‘field of possibility’ (bell hooks).

Confirmed contributors so far include:
 
Sam Ainsley (artist and educator) 
Regina Bittner (Head of the Academy and Deputy Director,  Bauhaus Dessau Foundation) 
Anne-Marie Copestake (artist and educator) 
Jemma Desai (writer and researcher) 
Ruth Ewan (artist) 
Gudskul (educational knowledge-sharing platform of Jakarta-based artists collectives ruangrupa, Serrum, and Grafis Huru Hara) David Harding (artist and educator) 
Ashanti Harris (artist) 
Jade Montserrat (artist, researcher and activist) 
Harun Morrison (artist and writer) 
Serubiri Moses (curator and writer) 
Hardeep Pandhal and Joe Howe (MIDIevil x Spider Knife)
Kapil Seshasayee (musician) 
Ross Sinclair (artist and educator)
Ranjana Thapalyal (artist and researcher) 
Grant Watson (curator) 
Awuor Onyango (artist) 
The Otolith Group (artist collective) 

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