Cooper Gallery events archive
View details of past events held at Cooper Gallery
Events prior to 2021 may use an older template which may not work as well on mobile devices, we are working to update these over time.
2021/2022
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Wednesday 20 March 2024, 16:15 - 17:30
Part of the CHEAD Annual Conference 2024
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Thursday 22 February 2024, 18:00 - 19:30
Performance by Saoirse Amira Anis
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Tuesday 13 February 2024, 18:00 - 19:30
Participatory workshop led by Sarah Perks
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Thursday 25 January 2024, 17:30 - 20:30
Exhibition preview and drinks reception
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Wednesday 13 December 2023, 18:00 - 20:00
Screening with artist response by Ashanti Harris and Sabrina Henry & collaborators (In-person)
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Thursday 7 December 2023, 19:00 - 20:30
Live performances by Maria Chávez, Lore Lixenberg, Elaine Mitchener and Shiori Usui. (In-person)
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Thursday 30 November 2023, 18:30 - 20:00
Talk with The Otolith Group and Professor Gus John (online)
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Thursday 23 November 2023, 18:30 - 20:00
Online reading session led by The Otolith Group and Akwugo Emejulu (online)
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Wednesday 15 November 2023, 18:00 - 20:00
Screening with artist response from Anne-Marie Copestake (In-person)
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Thursday 2 November 2023, 18:30 - 20:00
Screening and discussion between The Otolith Group, artist Natasha Thembiso Ruwona and curator Sabrina Henry (In-person)
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Tuesday 31 October 2023, 18:00 - 20:00
Screening with response by Daisy Lafarge (In-person)
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Thursday 26 October 2023, 18:30 - 20:00
Online discussion led by The Otolith Group
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Wednesday 18 October 2023, 18:00 - 20:00
Screening with response by artist Rae-Yen Song
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Thursday 12 October 2023, 18:00 - Wednesday 13 December 2023, 20:00
A curriculum of one-off in-person and online discussions, gatherings, and screenings in collaboration with DXG: The Department of Xenogenesis
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Thursday 12 October 2023, 18:00 - 21:00
Preview & In-conversation | The Otolith Group: ...But There Are New Suns
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Thursday 29 June 2023, 18:00 - 19:30
An experimental drawing workshop designed by DJCAD MFA Drawing students to accompany the exhibition Dream Land by Heather Phillipson
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Saturday 24 June 2023, 12:00 - 23:59
Internationally renowned contemporary art festival Art Night to take place in Dundee in 2023
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Friday 16 June 2023, 18:00 - 20:00
Exhibition Preview and Drinks Reception
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Friday 16 June 2023, 12:00 - Saturday 1 July 2023, 17:00
Young Visitors’ Worksheet | Dream Land
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Thursday 30 March 2023, 18:00 - 19:00
A screening of films documenting labour and work shot in Dundee by local filmmakers, artists and researchers
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Thursday 23 March 2023, 18:00 - 19:30
A Listening Party drawing on Ruth Ewan’s ongoing music archive, A Jukebox of People Trying to Change the World featuring performer Debbie Armour
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Thursday 9 March 2023, 18:30 - 20:30
Film screening and Q&A with artist Rehana Zaman and Marissa Begonia, Director of The Voices of Domestic Workers, as part of Dundee Women’s Festival.
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Thursday 23 February 2023, 18:00 - 19:30
Reading and discussion workshop facilitated by artist Stella Rooney
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Saturday 11 February 2023, 13:00 - 15:30
Video making workshop facilitated by artists Pernille Spence and Gair Dunlop
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Thursday 2 February 2023, 18:00 - 21:00
Panel Discussion followed by exhibition preview and drinks reception
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Thursday 17 November 2022, 18:00 - 20:00
A reading group and screening led by Alex Hetherington and George Finlay Ramsay
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Thursday 3 November 2022, 18:00 - 20:30
A 16mm camera workshop facilitated by Alex Hetherington & George Finlay Ramsay
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Thursday 20 October 2022, 18:00 - 19:30
Vocal performance and one-off screening with composers Ceylan Hay and Shiori Usui
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Thursday 29 September 2022, 17:30 - 20:00
Exhibition preview and artists' in-conversation
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Saturday 25 June 2022, 11:00 - 23:00
A 12-hour community of open-air conversations, dance, music, performance, readings, screenings, workshops, and food to re-imagine art education and unsettle systems of knowledge.
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Thursday 14 April 2022, 18:00 - 19:30
In-person drawing workshop led by artist Zoe Gibson
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Thursday 31 March 2022, 18:00 - 19:30
Online panel presentation with drawing prompts
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Wednesday 30 March 2022, 18:00 - 19:30
In-person drawing workshop led by artist Natsumi Sakamoto
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Thursday 24 March 2022, 18:30 - 19:45
Online discussion | Drawing and archaeological explorations in relation to the Lines of Site Exhibition
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Monday 21 March 2022, 18:30 - 20:00
Opening of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021
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Thursday 3 February 2022, 18:00 - 19:30
Online writing workshop facilitated by Lola Olufemi
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Saturday 29 January 2022, 14:30 - 16:30
In-person workshop facilitated by Ashanti Harris
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Thursday 20 January 2022, 18:00 - 19:30
In-person workshop facilitated by Rabindranath X Bhose
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Wednesday 12 January 2022, 18:00 - 19:30
Online workshop facilitated by Dr. Ranjana Thapalyal
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Saturday 11 December 2021, 14:30 - 16:30
In-person workshop facilitated by Harriet Sutcliffe in partnership with In-Session (FKA GRADJOB)
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Thursday 9 December 2021, 13:00 - 15:00
Online workshop facilitated by GUDSKUL
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Thursday 9 December 2021, 13:00 - Thursday 3 February 2022, 19:30
A curriculum of one-off in-person and online collaborative learning events, gatherings, and workshops
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Thursday 21 October 2021, 18:00 - 19:30
The Ignorant Art School, Sit-in Curriculum #1
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Wednesday 20 October 2021, 13:30 - 14:30
The Ignorant Art School, Sit-in Curriculum #1
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Thursday 14 October 2021, 18:00 - Saturday 16 October 2021, 19:30
The Ignorant Art School, Sit-in Curriculum #1
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Wednesday 6 October 2021, 18:00 - 20:00
The Ignorant Art School, Sit-in Curriculum #1
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Wednesday 29 September 2021, 18:00 - 19:30
The Ignorant Art School, Sit-in Curriculum #1
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Wednesday 22 September 2021, 18:00 - 19:30
The Ignorant Art School, Sit-in Curriculum #1
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Friday 3 September 2021, 18:00 - Saturday 23 October 2021, 20:00
Sit-in #1 artist Ruth Ewan has collaborated with Cooper Gallery to devise a sequence of online and in-person gatherings which activated radical forms of collaborative learning and grassroots knowledge creation.
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Thursday 22 April 2021, 19:30 - 21:00
The Ignorant Art School, Sit-in Curriculum #1
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Thursday 15 April 2021, 18:00 - 19:30
The Ignorant Art School, Sit-in Curriculum #1
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Thursday 8 April 2021, 19:30 - 21:00
The Ignorant Art School, Sit-in Curriculum #1
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Thursday 1 April 2021, 19:30 - 20:30
The Ignorant Art School, Sit-in Curriculum #1
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Thursday 25 March 2021, 18:00 - 19:30
The Ignorant Art School, Sit-in Curriculum #1
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Wednesday 17 March 2021, 18:00 - 19:30
The Ignorant Art School, Sit-in Curriculum #1
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Wednesday 3 March 2021, 18:00 - 19:30
The Ignorant Art School, Sit-in Curriculum #1
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Thursday 25 February 2021, 19:30 - 21:30
The Ignorant Art School, Sit-in Curriculum #1
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Thursday 11 February 2021, 18:00 - Thursday 11 March 2021, 19:30
The Ignorant Art School, Sit-in Curriculum #1
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Image credits
- Background image: Georgina Starr, Before Le Cerveau Affamé, 2013. Performance, Cooper Gallery. Photo Ross Fraser McLean.