Event
A Fugitive Class: On Refusal, Escape and Joy
Thursday 31 October 2024
Zine making with Akwugo Emejulu (In-person)
Cooper Gallery
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design,
13 Perth Road,
Dundee,
DD1 4HT
Taking Audre Lorde’s classic essay, Poetry Is Not A Luxury, as an inspiration, this workshop explores what it means to use beauty as means to transform ourselves and the world. Poetry can be a revolutionary practice in which we refuse to accept the brutality of the world and escape into beauty, into community, into other wonders. Poetry is an act of internal reflection and contemplation but also conspiracy, possibility and change.
The workshop opens with a collective reading and discussion of Poetry is Not A Luxury. We will then read and discuss our favourite poems which helped us to escape other possibilities. We will conclude with a zine-making workshop about escape, joy and poetry.
This workshop forms part of the free curriculum of events for The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #4 Outside the Circle.
Sign-up
This is free limited capacity event, open to all.
To participate please sign-up for a free space via Eventbrite.
Participant info
We will have papers and pens and scissors available. Please feel free to bring any additional dry drawing/writing material of your preference.
Biography
Akwugo Emejulu is Chair of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests include the political sociology of race, class and gender and women of colour’s grassroots activism in Europe and the United States. She is the author of several books including Precarious Solidarity (forthcoming, Manchester University Press), Fugitive Feminism (Silver Press 2022) and Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain (Policy Press, 2017). She is co-editor of To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe (Pluto Press, 2019).
Access
Cooper Gallery is located to the right side of the DJCAD buildings on Perth Road. The entrance is via double doors which face onto a car park.
The gallery is on two floors. Ground floor has ramped access. First floor is accessible by an internal lift and six steps with a handrail. Wheelchair access is via a stairclimber. Please email in advance if you require lift or stairclimber access.
First floor is also accessible via 24 steps. Two flights of 12 steps with handrails are separated by a landing.
Exhibition videos are subtitled and captioned in English. Seating is provided and/or additional seating available, please ask an invigilator.
For all enquiries please email: exhibitions@dundee.ac.uk
Toilets
The ground floor has a wheelchair accessible toilet. The toilet is gender neutral.
Interpretation
Large print versions of the exhibition information handout are available, please ask our Guides. If you require alternative formats for material in exhibitions please email or ask our Guides.
About the exhibition
Outside the Circle, is an exhibition and event programme inspired by and generated from feminist and queer movements since the beginning of the 20th century that foregrounds intersectional feminist and queer strategies of radical emancipation, resistance, survival, and collective action as critical and pedagogical ‘ruptures’ in our lived experience. It is the fourth iteration of ongoing programme, The Ignorant Art School: Five Sit-ins Towards Creative Emancipation.
Visit
18 October 2024 – 1 February 2025
Monday – Saturday, 12–5pm
Image credit
Audre Lorde on the Krumme Lanke in Berlin wearing a T-shirt with the Emma Goldman quote 'If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution'. 1984. Photo by and courtesy of Dr Dagmar Schultz.
Funding support
The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #4 at Cooper Gallery, DJCAD is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
Cooper Gallery
Exhibitions@dundee.ac.uk