Cooper Gallery
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design,
13 Perth Road,
Dundee,
DD1 4HT
Coinciding with Bahar Noorizadeh’s exhibition The Debtor’s Portal, Weird Economies X Scotland is a public event series composed of discussions, workshops, and performance.
Building on the provocative stance embedded in the alternative pedagogical and curatorial platform Weird Economies, founded by Noorizadeh in 2021, the event series engages with the distinctive art ecologies of Scotland to deepen and amplify Noorizadeh's interrogation of the critical relationships between art, society and financialization.
Financialization is a prevalent factor shaping the art and cultural sector today. Artistic practice in recent years increasingly maps this critical intersection, whether through engaging with economies of care, the beautification of urban space in the image of capital investment and shifting social subjectivities reliant on reputational metrics and rating models.
By critically addressing organisational structures and forms of agency in culture production, the event series highlights the necessity for renewed investment in grassroots initiatives and solidarity-based practices. Weird Economies X Scotland grasps the changing positionality of being an art practitioner amid the ongoing precarity of public funding in a world suffering the political instability of authoritarianism.
Weird Economies X Scotland is co-curated with Bahar Noorizadeh.
Participant information
Events are free, open to all and require no prior experience or knowledge to attend. Participants can sign-up via Eventbrite for one or all of the one-off sessions.
Book free tickets via Eventbrite
Weird Economies x Scotland
Weird Ecologies of Art
Thursday 12 February 2026, 5.30–8.30pm (In-person)
Exhibition Preview & In-conversation with Bahar Noorizadeh & Anjalika Sagar, Kodwo Eshun (The Otolith Group) chaired by Sophia Yadong Hao
Expand Extract Repent Repeat
Thursday 5 March, 6.30–8.30pm (Online)
Artist's Talk by Nida Sinnokrot & Discussion with Adam HajYahia, Bahar Noorizadeh
Right to the City: Art and the Production of Space
Thursday 12 March, 6.30–8.30pm (In-person)
Round Table chaired by Angela Dimitrakaki
Speakers: Tiffany Kaewen Dang, Charles Mudede, and Bahar Noorizadeh
Money Hacks
Thursday 26 March, 6.30–8.30pm (In-person)
Workshop facilitated by Bahar Noorizadeh
Reuter in Tehran
Saturday 11 April, 7–8.30pm (In-person)
Live Performance by Bahar Noorizadeh in collaboration with Intibint
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. The Otolith Collective is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
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