Event
A Resourcing Class: Erotics of the Earthworm
A movement-based session exploring how we nourish our creativity led by artist and dancer Rabindranath X Bhose
Thursday 5 December 2024
Cooper Gallery
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design,
13 Perth Road,
Dundee,
DD1 4HT
A movement-based session exploring how we nourish our creativity with texts and stories, inspired by the digesting and aerating moves of the earthworm, led by artist and dancer Rabindranath X Bhose.
This movement-based session will explore a practice of reading inspired by Audre Lorde’s essay Uses of the Erotic. It will involve a dance of engaging with books, texts and the exhibition resources, and focusing on what feels stimulating: what literally ‘moves’ you! Our inspiration for movement will be the earthworm: a beautiful creature who transports nutrients around the soil through their digested matter, and aerates it through their tunnels. Together, we will explore how we nourish ourselves and our creative practices through taking in resources, breathing deeply, moving bodies and exposing resonant ideas.
All bodies and ways of engaging and moving are welcome. There will be multiple options for all invitations offered as part of the workshop. Disabled and non-disabled participants are very welcome.
“Any environment, any single life is in a continuous state of change. This is just more obvious when you pay attention to earthworms. Their work may seem unspectacular at first. They don't chirp or sing, they don't gallop or soar, they don't hunt or make tools or write books. But they do something just as powerful: they consume, they transform, they change the earth.”
― Amy Stewart, The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
This workshop forms part of the free curriculum of events for The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #4 Outside the Circle.
Sign-up
Free, open to all.
To participate please sign-up for a space via Eventbrite. Link to follow.
Participant Info
All bodies and ways of engaging and moving are welcome. There will be multiple options for all invitations offered as part of the workshop. Disabled and non-disabled participants are very welcome.
Wear clothes you are comfortable moving in, and bring a pen and notebook for any notes you might like to take
Biography
Rabindranath X Bhose is an artist and dancer based in Glasgow and hailing from London, Scotland, France, India and Brussels. His research circles around the figure of the ‘gender fugitive’ and the queer potentials of the bog. Recent commissions include Corpores Infames: Disreputable Bodies at Glasgow International in collaboration with Oren Shoesmith and Belladonna Paloma and DANCE IN THE SACRED DOMAIN: Body of the Bog at Collective, Edinburgh. He is a graduate of School of the Damned DIY Art School and is currently studying for an MFA in Creative Practice at Trinity Laban Conservatoire with Siobhan Davies Studios. He is also a facilitator of Earthworm Sangha meditation community for disabled, chronically ill and neurodiverse people, a Trustee of artist-run space Market Gallery, and a Research Lead for British Art Network 2023-2024 group Artist-Run Initiatives in Britain.
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.
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 at least two weeks' prior to event.
To access funds for travel please email [email protected] and let us know where you are travelling from within Scotland. We will book trains in advance for attendees and ticket collection references will be sent to you by email.
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
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
Drawing courtesy the artist
Funding support
The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #4 at Cooper Gallery, DJCAD is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
Cooper Gallery
[email protected]