A Stitching Perspectives Class: WeMend
Yes
Womanifesto, a Thailand based women artists collective invite you to participate on their ongoing project WeMend that encourages people to come together to sew, embroider, patch and upcycle pieces of fabric into growing cloth work forming cross-border connections.
In our fragmented times, WeMend offers time and space to slow down – to commune, converse, repair and connect - individually and collectively contemplate on both material and non-materials matters in our lives.
For A Stitching Perspectives Class, Womanifesto will join us remotely to introduce WeMend and invite us to get involved, sewing, mending and joining fabric pieces together, sharing their stories, histories and our different perspectives around tables in the exhibition space of The Ignorant Art School.
This participatory work was first included in the exhibition Womanifesto: Flowing Connections at Bangkok Art & Culture Centre from September to December 2023, and as a continuation further community workshops have set up in Thailand (Bangkok and Udon Thani), Baroda (India) and within community spaces in UAE.
The collectively made fabric piece made at Cooper Gallery will be sent to Womanifesto to be joined with groups working in Bangkok, Kumphawapi NE Thailand, Baroda.
These cloth fragments will come together to form a continuous piece, and will be installed as a shelter-like structure in future exhibitions, where visitors are invited to continue attaching patches and make the fabric grow. The work will be part of Sharjah Biennale 16, opening February 2025.
Engaging in this meditative hands-on activity with sewing at its core, is to nurture linkages with each other and in turn with all that surrounds us.
This workshop forms part of the free curriculum of events for The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #4 Outside the Circle.
Free
Sign-up
Event is free and open to all to attend.
Sign-up for a free space via Eventbrite.
Participant info
WeMend is an ongoing social and participatory workshop space inviting visitors and community groups to join in the ongoing activity to sew/embroider/patch/upcycle pieces of fabric together.
Womanifesto invite you to
- Gather off-cut (unused) pieces of fabrics from your locality (tailoring shops and designers) and bring your own leftover/discarded pieces of cloth carrying personal stories, to add to the basket of fabrics to be shared with fellow participants to use
- Pick any of the fabric pieces from the gallery and hand-sew them to form a larger connected piece
- Needles and thread will be available but please feel free to bring your own if you prefer
- You can patch, embroider etc. The process is open to what you would like to do – just have fun!
- After the workshop you can also continue patching at home and then bring it back and attach it to the main one taking shape collectively in the gallery
- Please tell your family and friends and ask them to join!
WeMend is available to participate in throughout the exhibition. If you would like to participate individually just ask our invigilator or to arrange a group visit to participate please email [email protected]
Biography
WeMend is a project by Womanifesto – an International Art Exchange (Thailand).
Womanifesto started out by hosting gatherings biannually from 1997 to build an international platform for women living in Thailand. It was first established by a group of women artists, writers and activists following an exhibition titled Tradisexion held in Bangkok in 1995. Womanifesto went on to develop a diverse range of activities spanning community-based workshops, publication and internet-related projects, workshops and residencies, and more recently a regular online meeting point entitled lasuemo (the last Sunday of each month).
Operating as a loose consortium of female practitioners, the collective is committed to supporting women’s practice through innovative projects that respond flexibly to the unfolding life events of the key members. Its organisational structure is centred around hospitality and collective generosity.
Since 2019, the Womanifesto Archives have been exhibited in multiple cities including Bangkok, Sydney and Hong Kong. In 2022, Womanifesto was featured in Documenta 15. In 2023, Nitaya established Baan Womanifesto in Udon Thani. This is Womanifesto’s first permanent space dedicated to its projects and wider engagement with the local community. Womanifesto held its first retrospective exhibition in Bangkok Art and Culture Centre in 2023.
www.womanifesto.com
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
Womanifesto, WeMend, participatory work, exhibition view Flowing Connections, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, 2023
Photo courtesy Womanifesto
Funding support
The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #4 at Cooper Gallery, DJCAD is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
Cooper Gallery
Cooper Gallery
Cooper Gallery
The Ignorant Art School | Sit-in 4 | Outside the Circle
The Ignorant Art School Sit-in Curriculum #4
Sign-up for a free place via Eventbrite
No
Yes
Participatory stitching workshop introduced by Womanifesto (In-person)
An Art and Life Class: Convening Critical Women to Resist Art Schooling
Yes
An analogue slide show presentation and talk by Adele Patrick, co-founder of both Women in Profile (WiP) and Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL).
In the mid 1980’s a group of women studying at Glasgow School of Art began to meet in each other’s flats with slides of their work and a projector for ‘Slide Criticism’ sessions. Responding to the prevailing art institutional pedagogy that erased women’s lives and contributions to art and history formation, these informal, packed, self-organised and facilitated meetings were a counter cultural locus informed by consciousness raising to discuss women’s art, women artists and feminism. They were a precursor to the founding of Women in Profile (WiP) and subsequently Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL).
Adele Patrick, who was a 'Slide Criticism' meeting host, will show slides from the original meetings (now held in the GWL collection), discuss their rationale, their legacy and the pre-digital technologies involved.
This workshop forms part of the free curriculum of events for The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #4 Outside the Circle.
Sign-up
Event is free and open to all to attend.
Sign-up for a free space via Eventbrite.
Free
Biography
Adele Patrick has been developing innovative cultural projects rooted in equalities and in academic research and community learning and teaching for over 30 years. She co-founded Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL) in 1991 and is currently a Co-Director. Trained as a designer at Glasgow School of Art (where she subsequently taught Gender, Art and Culture) Adele has worked collaboratively with writers, visual artists, filmmakers and performers throughout her career, most recently Reiko Goto Collins and Yoko Ono for Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art 2024. She has published widely in academic, professional and popular journals and regularly speaks at national and international conferences.
Following a Clore Leadership Fellowship in 2018/2019, Adele undertook Post Fellowship research on Feminist Leadership in the cultural realm, a field she is continuing to explore with a range of international colleagues and organisations in her capacity as a coach, mentor, consultant and advisor to academic researchers. Some of her findings are accessible here. In 2022 she joined the Board of the V&A Dundee and in 2023 was awarded the Fletcher of Saltoun Award from the Saltire Society.
Links
https://adelepatrick.co.uk
@dradelepatrick
www.womenslibrary.org.uk
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 will take place on both levels of the gallery.
Please email in advance if you require lift or stairclimber access so we can arrange support.
Large print versions of the exhibition information handout are available, please ask our Guides.
If you require live captions for the discussion please email to request.
All enquiries please contact: [email protected]
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.
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
Women in Profile newsletter, 1990. Courtesy Adele Patrick.
Funding support
The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #4 is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
Cooper Gallery
Cooper Gallery
Cooper Gallery
The Ignorant Art School | Sit-in 4 | Outside the Circle
The Ignorant Art School Sit-in Curriculum #4
Sign-up for a free space via Eventbrite
No
Yes
A Slide show presentation and talk by Adele Patrick (In-person)
A Fugitive Class: On Refusal, Escape and Joy
Yes
Taking Audre Lorde’s classic essay, Poetry Is Not A Luxury, as an inspiration, this workshop explores what it means to use beauty as means to transform ourselves and the world. Poetry can be a revolutionary practice in which we refuse to accept the brutality of the world and escape into beauty, into community, into other wonders. Poetry is an act of internal reflection and contemplation but also conspiracy, possibility and change.
The workshop opens with a collective reading and discussion of Poetry is Not A Luxury. We will then read and discuss our favourite poems which helped us to escape other possibilities. We will conclude with a zine-making workshop about escape, joy and poetry.
This workshop forms part of the free curriculum of events for The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #4 Outside the Circle.
Free
Sign-up
This is free limited capacity event, open to all.
To participate please sign-up for a free space via Eventbrite.
Participant info
- You're invited to bring along a favourite poem to share or read aloud
- We will have papers and pens and scissors available. Please feel free to bring any additional dry drawing/writing material of your preference.
- It's Halloween so fancy dress is strongly encouraged!
Biography
Akwugo Emejulu is Chair of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests include the political sociology of race, class and gender and women of colour’s grassroots activism in Europe and the United States. She is the author of several books including Precarious Solidarity (forthcoming, Manchester University Press), Fugitive Feminism (Silver Press 2022) and Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain (Policy Press, 2017). She is co-editor of To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe (Pluto Press, 2019).
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
Audre Lorde on the Krumme Lanke in Berlin wearing a T-shirt with the Emma Goldman quote 'If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution'. 1984. Photo by and courtesy of Dr Dagmar Schultz.
Funding support
The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #4 at Cooper Gallery, DJCAD is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
Cooper Gallery
Cooper Gallery
Cooper Gallery
The Ignorant Art School | Sit-in 4 | Outside the Circle
The Ignorant Art School Sit-in Curriculum #4
Sign-up for a free place via Eventbrite
No
Yes
Zine making with Akwugo Emejulu (In-person)
A Manifesto Class: Voicing Outside the Circle
Yes
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. Two reading sessions will be led by esteemed artists and educators Sam Ainsley and Professor Maria Fusco.
Readings by Art & Design students & lecturers from Edinburgh College of Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Glasgow School of Art, and Gray’s School.
The manifestos voiced by learners and educators are presented in an installation at the entrance to Cooper Gallery.
Free
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: [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
Performance photography by Ben Douglas.
Mary Kelly, WLM Demo Remix, 2005. Courtesy of 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
Cooper Gallery
Cooper Gallery
The Ignorant Art School | Sit-in 4 | Outside the Circle
The Ignorant Art School Sit-in Curriculum #4
No
Yes
Exhibition Preview and Collective Performance (In-person)