Event
A Manifesto Class: Voicing Outside the Circle
Thursday 17 October 2024
Exhibition Preview and Collective Performance (In-person)
Cooper Gallery
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design,
13 Perth Road,
Dundee,
DD1 4HT
To launch the fourth iteration of The Ignorant Art School, Cooper Gallery hosts a collective performance by Art and Design students and lecturers from across Scotland, reflecting on the urgencies, desires and potential of creative learning today.
Vocalising what is at stake in the spaces of our learning this collective action will sound out excerpts from Feminist and Queer Manifestos written by artists, designers, writers, collectives and activists between 1791 and 2024.
Join us in this time-space of learning and unlearning to co-constitute a collective moment at the Preview of Cooper Gallery’s exhibition The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #4 | Outside the Circle. The manifestos voiced by learners and educators are presented in an installation at the entrance to Cooper Gallery.
Audience info
The Preview & Collective Performance is open to all, free and unticketed.
Alcoholic drinks will be served and non-alcoholic refreshments will be available.
Schedule
The performance will take place in two instalments allowing time for exhibition viewing.
5.30pm Doors open & exhibition viewing
6pm Collective Performance
7.30pm Collective Performance
8.30pm Doors close
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 exhibition and performance 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: 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
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