Jamming Day 3 | Dundonian Dissent: Sowing Class

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About Jamming Days
Tuned to the collaborative, experimental and improvisational ethos of musical ‘jamming’ and energised by the unruly possibilities of knowing otherwise, Jamming Days brings artists, curators, cultural workers, educators, students, activists, policymakers, and communities together in a series of discursive and participatory events. These charged moments of reflection, exchange and experimentation activate a constellation of (un)learning spaces, equipping individuals and communities to collectively inhabit, contest and transform this dissonant present with critical hope and solidarity that draws on knowledge in all its multiplicity. 

Part of Jamming The Ignorant Art School
Exhibition: 9 October – 12 December 2026

Event Access

• Event will take place on level 2 of the gallery
• Light vegetarian and vegan food will be provided 
• non-alcoholic refreshments will be provided 

Biographies

Pinar Aksu is an artist-scholar and a human rights campaigner. Her work sits at the powerful intersection of art, justice, and activism. Currently a Research Associate on the Sustainable Designs for Living and Learning (SDLL) project and Research Fellow with the UNESCO RIELA, University of Glasgow.   

Her doctoral research, Art and Law in Migration: using art practices for social change and access to justice, reflects her commitment to exploring how creative practice can challenge injustice and open pathways to equity. Pinar’s work is grounded in building solidarity and fostering welcoming communities through dialogue, empathy, and shared understanding. Her research interest include migration, social justice, languages, law, politics and creativity. 

As an activist-scholar, she has contributed to impactful campaigns including Our Grades Not Visas, Right to Vote, and Lift the Ban-Right to Work, and continues her advocacy with Refugees for Justice.   

Debbie Armour is a traditional singer and artist working with sound and performance. She motivated by persistence, resonance, deep cultural roots and celebrating traditional materials. Her practice sparks interest in shared heritage through world building, and recontextualising song, story and archetype. 

Ruth Ewan is a Glasgow based artist whose research-led, context specific practice explores the intersection of social history and creative activism. Through the recovery of overlooked and obscured radical histories, she creates installations, public projects, events and audio works that examine how historical movements and ideas continue to shape contemporary society. Her work has been recognised for its sensitivity to place and community, and its ability to translate archival research into meaningful public engagement, making radical histories accessible and relevant to diverse audiences. 

Ewan has exhibited widely across international galleries and museums, including the National Gallery, London; Yorkshire Sculpture Park; CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Kunsthal Charlottenborg; New Museum, New York; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Victoria and Albert Museum; São Paulo Biennial; Camden Arts Centre; Tate Britain and Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee.  

She is currently developing Everything Must Change, a permanent, multi-sited public artwork proposing an alternative perpetual time system for Korsvägen Station in Gothenburg. She is also developing a series of permanent public artworks on the site of the former Ford Dagenham plant, commemorating the strikes that helped pave the way for the UK’s Equal Pay Act. 

Erin Farley is a storyteller and writer who has performed at book and storytelling festivals across Scotland. She was a fieldworker on the Northern Lighthouse Board Oral History Project between 2013 and 2015, interviewing former lighthouse keepers and their families, engineers, boat crew and trustees. She is the author of Angus Folk Tales, co-editor of In One Woman’s Life: Celebrating Mary Brooksbank and has also contributed to other publications.

Jek McAllister is an artist, facilitator, gardener, and cook based in Dundee. Currently, she is Lead Artist for Alternative (Art) School, a project by Forgan Arts Centre supporting young people who feel excluded from mainstream education through a programme of art, craft and horticulture. Her day to day practice is and always has been concerned with with creating fun circumstances for people to come together, hang out and experience or learn something (often around food). Jek has run Wooosh Gallery since 2019, was a Hospitalfield Graduate resident in 2023–24 and in 2025 facilitated 'Dundee Dye Gardens' as a part of the V&A Dundee exhibition Garden Futures. 

Robyn Scanlan is a Dundee-born grassroots producer and multidisciplinary artist wi a Master’s in Curation and an undergraduate degree in Art and Philosophy from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design.

Her practice is rooted in social pedagogy, working-class experience and folk culture. Working wi a head, heart, hands approach, she sits alongside young people, artists, musicians, gardeners and storytellers tae bring ideas tae life. Her way of working is intuitive and improvisational, trusting feeling as a form of knowledge and embracing a “let’s dae it, then work oot the pattern later” approach.

Through City Flowers Garden Studio, Robyn works across studio, street and gairden, creating nurturing spaces where folk can connect, experiment and grow ideas together. Rooted in social practice, her work sees relationships built through gathering, making and sharing as part of the artwork itself.

She creates the conditions for stories, ideas and communities tae take root, cross-pollinate and take up space, allowing things tae grow in their ain time.

Alison Scott is an artist, writer and art-worker based in Angus. Often working collaboratively, across forms, Alison’s projects—drawing on encounters with weather, oil and land—engage with aspects of environmental politics on an everyday, situated level. Her work has been supported by organisations such as Architecture Fringe, Travelling Gallery, St Andrews Botanic Gardens, Hospitalfield, Collective, Cove Park and Radiophrenia. 
 
She is currently a practice-based PhD student at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, focussing on art, forestry and the commons. With Rosie Roberts, she has a collaborative writing and editorial practice currently concentrated on their new publishing platform PAMphlet. She collaborates regularly with Rachel McBrinn and is a long-term collaborator of ‘open-weather’. Alison has been a member of the Board at GENERATOR Projects, Dundee since 2023. With Cat MacLeod she started Feminist Bird Club Dundee in 2025 and she is involved in various local groups running screenings and creative activities as part of climate and social justice movements. 
 
alison-scott.co.uk 
pamphlet.scot    

Access Funds

A small access fund is available to support travel and access for BSL interpretation, costs for childcare, carers & support workers and other needs. The funds are distributed on a first come first served basis. Please be aware we may need to close the fund early if demand is high, so please get in touch prior to event. 

For Travel

• please emailing stating where you are travelling from within Scotland 
• Cooper Gallery will book trains in advance for attendees and email ticket collection references

For all other access requests

• please email and detail your access requirement and request
• we will respond as soon as we can and confirm access fund transfer

Contact: [email protected]
 

General Access

Location

Cooper Gallery is located to the right side of the DJCAD buildings on Perth Road
Entrance is via double doors which face onto a car park
The gallery is on two levels

Level 1

• Ramped access
• Wheelchair accessible toilet. The toilet is gender neutral
• Invigilator desk

Level 2

Lift route

• Accessible via lift, corridor and 5 steps. For wheelchair access via a stairclimber
• Please email in advance if you require lift or stairclimber access

Step route

• 24 steps. Two flights of 12 steps with handrails are separated by a landing
• No toilet on first floor

Exhibition

• Exhibition videos are subtitled and captioned in English
• Seating is provided and/or additional seating available, please ask an invigilator
• 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.

BSL & captioning

• For event requirements please email: [email protected]

Toilet

Ground floor has a wheelchair accessible toilet. The toilet is gender neutral.

All Enquiries

• Please email: [email protected]
   

Image credit

Ruth Ewan, Heckle, 2021
Painted Lightbox with lettering by Erin-Bradley Scott
Commissioned by Cooper Gallery. Photo by Sally Jubb.

Funding support

The exhibition is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland and with the kind support of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Centenary Trust.