The Ignorant Art School Sit-in Curriculum #2
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Sit-in Curriculum #2 is a public event series that situates the archival material and artworks within The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #2 exhibition as critical stimuli and generative points of departure for an open space for collaborative and revolutionised learning facilitated by artists, activists, designers, educators, performers, and writers.
Indexed by Stuart Hall’s theorisation of the ‘politics of articulation’ in which culture is not fixed but always subject to negotiation and struggle, Sit-in Curriculum #2 sets out to challenge hegemonical narratives and celebrate grassroots knowledge. Sit-in Curriculum #2 will culminate in an international symposium, 12 Hour Sit-in Revel.
Participant information
Classes are free, open to all and require no prior experience or knowledge to attend. Participants can sign-up for one or all with each class led by an invited facilitator.
Free
List of Classes
A Nongkrong (hangout) Class: Forming a Speculative Collective
Online workshop facilitated by GUDSKUL
Thursday 9 December 2021, 13:00 - 15:00
An online version of Gudskul’s knowledge-sharing and mapping exercises. participants are invited to form a ‘Speculative Collective’. This event introduces participants giving space for, conversation, sharing what they consider to be ‘knowledge’ by occupying the roles of both teacher and student in a quick to-and-fro.
A Collage Class: Revealing / Creating New or Alternative Narratives
In-person workshop facilitated by Harriet Sutcliffe in partnership with In-Session (FKA GRADJOB)
Saturday 11 December 2021, 14:30 - 16:30
Focusing attention on the women, both students and staff, associated with the Basic Course at Newcastle University (formerly Durham University) during the 1950s and 1960s, the Collage Class will be a creative and discursive opportunity for art school graduates to participate in a selection of original exercises from the Basic Course.
Winter Break
13 December 2021 – 4 January 2022
A Stillness Class: The Consciousness of Doing
Online workshop facilitated by Dr. Ranjana Thapalyal
Wednesday 12 January 2022, 18:00 - 19:30
A talk followed by a workshop in which participants will put theory into practice through a creative exercise in shifting perspectives. This session invites participants to enter new territories of inter-disciplinary, inter-cultural thinking, in order to answer the question, ‘can external revolution be effective while we remain internally unchanged?’
A Consensus Class: Adventures in Collaborative Decision Making
In-person workshop facilitated by Rabindranath X Bhose
Thursday 20 January 2022, 18:00 - 19:30
Exploring consensus decision making as a method, the workshop will use a conversational framework to incorporate opinions from each participant in the creation of a collaborative outcome. Using the structures, rhythms and hand gestures of this method the group will discover collaboratively what we can learn through negotiating an organisational structure together, in this instance a dynamic manifesto outlining the form of art school we need today.
A Movement Class: Listening with the Body
In-person workshop facilitated by Ashanti Harris
Saturday 29 January 2022, 14:30 - 16:30
This workshop is an invitation to explore and redefine our relationship to our bodies and the environments we move through. Working with movement and dance as a decolonial methodology for knowledge production, the workshop will begin with a series of warm up and body awareness exercises. You will be encouraged to follow feeling rather than any kind of style or technique, moving towards an understanding of the body as an archive of memory, experience, knowledge and a tool for listening to our surroundings.
A Class on Imagining
Online writing workshop facilitated by Lola Olufemi
Thursday 3 February 2022, 18:00 - 19:30
Using prompts from her new book Experiments in Imagining Otherwise and archival material related to black feminist organising formations in the 70s and 80s, Lola Olufemi will conduct a free-writing workshop, where participants will be asked to respond to prompts in a written form, exploring the political utility of the imagination; its purpose, manifestations and importance to revolutionary movements.
Funding support
The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #2 at Cooper Gallery, DJCAD is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland and the Goethe-Institut Glasgow.
Cooper Gallery
Cooper Gallery
Cooper Gallery
The Ignorant Art School: Five Sit-ins towards Creative Emancipation
The Ignorant Art School: Five Sit-ins towards Creative Emancipation
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A curriculum of one-off in-person and online collaborative learning events, gatherings, and workshops for The Ignorant Art School
A Class on Imagining
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Using prompts from her new book Experiments in Imagining Otherwise and archival material related to black feminist organising formations in the 70s and 80s, Lola Olufemi will conduct a free-writing workshop, where participants will be asked to respond to prompts in a written form, exploring the political utility of the imagination; its purpose, manifestations and importance to revolutionary movements.
This workshop forms part of The Ignorant Art School Sit-in Curriculum #2.
Participant information
Limited capacity online workshop, open to participants of all levels of experiences with writing.
The workshop will be held on Zoom. After registering a free place participants will receive an online meeting link.
Free
Facilitator biography
Lola Olufemi is a black feminist writer and CREAM/Stuart Hall foundation researcher from London. Her work focuses on the uses of the feminist imagination and its relationship to cultural production, political demands and futurity. She is author of Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power, Pluto Press (2020), Experiments in Imagining Otherwise, Hajar Press (2021) and a member of 'bare minimum', an interdisciplinary anti-work arts collective.
Funding support
The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #2 at Cooper Gallery, DJCAD is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland and the Goethe-Institut Glasgow.
Image credit
- Courtesy Lola Olufemi
Cooper Gallery
+ 44 (0) 1382 385330
Cooper Gallery
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Online writing workshop facilitated by Lola Olufemi
A Movement Class: Listening with the Body
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The history of the body is the history of human beings, for there is no cultural practice that is not first applied to the body. [...] Moreover, we do not have one history but different histories of the body: the body of men, of women, of the waged worker, of the enslaved, of the colonized. - Silvia Federici
This workshop is an invitation to explore and redefine our relationship to our bodies and the environments we move through. Working with movement and dance as a decolonial methodology for knowledge production, the workshop will begin with a series of warm up and body awareness exercises. We will then move outdoors on an audio guided walk which will offer a series of movement provocations considering the many layers of narratives which intersect and overlap with our own experiences. You will be encouraged to follow feeling rather than any kind of style or technique, moving towards an understanding of the body as an archive of memory, experience, knowledge and a tool for listening to our surroundings.
This workshop forms part of The Ignorant Art School Sit-in Curriculum #2.
Participant information
This is a limited capacity in-person event taking place on both floors of Cooper Gallery and outside in the grounds of the gallery. The workshop will begin with a series of warm up and body awareness exercises. We will then move outdoors on an audio guided walk which will offer a series of movement provocations.
- Half of the workshop will be outdoors, please wear warm and comfortable clothes.
- Bring a choice of writing material for reflection (paper and pen / phone / etc)
- Please email [email protected] if you require an mp3 player and headphones for the audio walk. Otherwise a soundfile will be available to stream. Wifi passwords will be supplied.
Free
Facilitator biography
Ashanti Harris is a multi-disciplinary artist and researcher based in Glasgow. Working with dance, performance, facilitation, film, installation and writing, Ashanti’s work disrupts historical narratives and reimagines them from a Caribbean diasporic perspective. As part of her creative practice, she is co-director of the company Project X - platforming dance of the African and Caribbean diaspora in Scotland; and works collaboratively as part of the collective Glasgow Open Dance School (G.O.D.S) – facilitating experimental movement workshops and research groups.Recent exhibitions include: JUMBIES, Glasgow International, Glasgow (2021); This Woman’s Work, Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami (2021); Radio Space, Borealis Festival, Bergen (2021); Miraculous Noise, Viborg Kunsthal, Viborg (2021); OHCE, Radiophrenia, 87.9fm (2020); Being Present, OGR, Torino (2020); In The Open, The Common Guild, Glasgow (2020); The Index Impulse, Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick (2020); The Skeleton of a Name, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2019); Walking Through the Shadows Eyes Open, SUBSOLO Laboratório de Arte, São Paulo, (2019).
Funding support
The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #2 at Cooper Gallery, DJCAD is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland and the Goethe-Institut Glasgow.
Image credit
- Ashanti Harris, Second Site, performance still, 2019. Photo: Jen Martin
Cooper Gallery
+ 44 (0) 1382 385330
Cooper Gallery
Book a free place via Eventbrite
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Yes
In-person workshop facilitated by Ashanti Harris
A Consensus Class: Adventures in Collaborative Decision Making
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Exploring consensus decision making as a method, the workshop will use a conversational framework to incorporate opinions from each participant in the creation of a collaborative outcome. Using the structures, rhythms and hand gestures of this method the group will discover collaboratively what we can learn through negotiating an organisational structure together, in this instance a dynamic manifesto outlining the form of art school we need today.
This workshop forms part of The Ignorant Art School Sit-in Curriculum #2.
Participant information
This is a limited capacity in-person event on the second floor of Cooper Gallery.
Facilitator biography
Rabindranath X Bhose grew up in London and lives and works in Glasgow. He graduated from the Ruskin School of Art in 2016 with a BFA in Fine Art and completed the School of the Damned DIY MA Art Programme in 2019. He has been a committee member at Market Gallery since 2018. Recent exhibitions and performances include; At Practise, David Dale (2021); Platform, Edinburgh Art Festival (2020), Digital Slip, Double Okay (2020), All vibrating fur, Civic House (2019); SINC, Backlit (2019) and A Small Pause To Unfold, Keir Street (2019).
Funding support
The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #2 at Cooper Gallery, DJCAD is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland and the Goethe-Institut Glasgow.
Image credit
- Rabindranath X Bhose, I'm Calling You From Nowhere, 2019. Photo: Jamie Sorensen
Cooper Gallery
+ 44 (0) 1382 385330
Cooper Gallery
Book a free place via Eventbrite
Yes
Yes
In-person workshop facilitated by Rabindranath X Bhose
A Stillness Class: The Consciousness of Doing
No
A talk followed by a workshop in which participants will put theory into practice through a creative exercise in shifting perspectives.
This session invites participants to enter new territories of inter-disciplinary, inter-cultural thinking, in order to answer the question, ‘can external revolution be effective while we remain internally unchanged?’
Core ideas will be introduced from four geographically and temporally distinct world views spanning millennia: Advaitya Vedanta, Yoruba Cosmology, Bhaskar’s metaRealism (which extends but deviates from Critical Realism), and J.Krishnamurti’s iconoclastic “first and last revolution”.* These philosophies are vast, complex, and distinct. They share however, an expectation of humanity that we can readily grasp: that we have agency and that our actions, when moderated by self-knowledge, can enable more equitable societies and a sensible relationship with nature.
*Origins: Advaitya Vedanta - South Asia c. 700 BCE; Yoruba philosophy -West Africa c. 400 BCE; Critical Realism/metaRealism- U.K. 1975/ 2000; J.Krishnamurti- India 1929.
This workshop forms part of The Ignorant Art School Sit-in Curriculum #2.
Participant information
Everyone is welcome to attend. You do not need to have specialised knowledge to join the class, but you will leave with inspiration and guidance on how to find out more.
The workshop will be held on Zoom with discussion in breakout rooms. Participants will receive an online meeting link upon sign-up and further information about the event.
Facilitator biography
Dr. Ranjana Thapalyal is an Indian born inter-disciplinary artist and academic based in Scotland. Her practice spans ceramics, painting, and ephemeral mixed media. Research areas include materiality in art, cultural and social identity, and the metaphysical self in relation to all of these. Of particular interest are concepts of self in South Asian and West African traditions, feminist readings of ancient philosophies of the global South, cultural politics, and the development of decolonising, inter-disciplinary and inter-cultural strategies for art pedagogy and social and environmental harmony. In her book, Education as Mutual Translation, a Yoruba and Ancient Indian Interface for Pedagogy in the Creative Arts (Brill 2018), Thapalyal proposes an adaptive, student led pedagogy premised on critical aspects of Yoruba and Vedantic thought, sensitive to history and student contexts. Recent writing can be found in Art Monthly, MAP, and Panel publications.
Funding support
The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #2 at Cooper Gallery, DJCAD is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland and the Goethe-Institut Glasgow.
Image credit
- Ranjana Thapalyal, 2021
Cooper Gallery
+ 44 (0) 1382 385330
Cooper Gallery
The Ignorant Art School | Sit-in 2 | To Be Potential
Book a free place via Eventbrite
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Online workshop facilitated by Dr. Ranjana Thapalyal