Event
Living Together
Exhibition Preview, Book Launch & In-conversation with Grace Ndiritu & Sophia Yadong Hao
Thursday 9 October 2025
Cooper Gallery
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design,
13 Perth Road,
Dundee,
DD1 4HT
To mark the opening of Sit-in #5: Companionate Rebels in Action, and the second edition of her book Being Together: A Manual for Living being published earlier this year; Grace Ndiritu will do a reading from the book, interspersed by meditation breaks, followed by an in-conversation and a discussion of Ndiritu's new publication Glossary for Art and Action, with Cooper Gallery Director and Principal Curator Sophia Yadong Hao.
Copies of both publications will be available to purchase on the night.
This event begins A Season of Peace Building, programmed with Grace Ndiritu for The Ignorant Art School Sit-in Curriculum #5. This series of conversations, workshops and gatherings is designed by Grace Ndiritu, drawing on her book Being Together: A Manual For Living as a template.
Schedule
5.30pm | Doors open
6–7pm | Grace Ndiritu & Sophia Yadong Hao in-conversation
7.30–8.30pm | Exhibition preview
Sign-up
Event is free and open to all to attend.
Sign-up to ensure a seat via Eventbrite.
Audiences without tickets will be welcome but we cannot guarantee seating.
Audience info
Alcoholic drinks will be served and non-alcoholic refreshments will be available.
Biographies
Sophia Yadong Hao is Director & Principal Curator of Cooper Gallery, Reader in Curatorial Practice at DJCAD, University of Dundee, and Visiting Professor at the University of Sunderland. Working internationally, Hao characterises the curatorial as a rhizomatic praxis capable of transforming exhibition making into a testing ground for radical futures. Hao was named one of The List’s Hot 100 in 2024: The Most Influential Scottish Cultural Contributors.
Grace Ndiritu is a British-Kenyan (Maasai Kikuyu) visual artist, filmmaker and writer whose artworks are concerned with the transformation of our contemporary world.
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. First floor has ramped access and disabled toilet.
Second floor is accessible via lift and for wheelchair access via a stairclimber. The event is held on the second floor. The exhibition is on both the first and second floor of the gallery.
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.
Alcoholic drinks will be served. Non alcoholic refreshments available.
For all enquiries please email: [email protected]
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
Compassionate Rebels in Action, is an exhibition and event programme by Grace Ndiritu.
It is the fifth iteration of Cooper Gallery's programme, The Ignorant Art School: Five Sit-ins Towards Creative Emancipation.
Visit
10 October – 13 December 2025
Tuesday – Saturday, 12–5pm
Image credit
The Ark: Center For Interdisciplinary Experimentation, 2017. Documentation, Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris, FR.
Photo credit: Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, courtesy Grace Ndiritu.
Funding support
The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #5 at Cooper Gallery, DJCAD is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
Cooper Gallery
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