Preview
27 February, 5.30–8.30pm
Exhibition viewing and refreshments, free, all welcome

Exhibition opening times
28 February – 12 April 2025
Monday – Saturday, 12–5pm

Cooper Gallery is proud to present Between the Door and the Street the first solo exhibition in Scotland by the highly esteemed American artist Suzanne Lacy.

Celebrated internationally since the 1970s as a pioneer in socially engaged and public performance art, Lacy’s wide-ranging practice instigates discussions on and brings attention to urgent social concerns including aging, gender equity, immigration, labour rights, poverty, racism, and violence against women. Whilst being steeped in ground-up practices of community organising and political activism, Lacy’s works are also utterly enthused with the poetic sensibility of the avant-garde.   

Encompassing Lacy’s critical politics and the formal hybridity characteristic of her projects, Cooper Gallery hosts a unique exhibition of material drawn from her highly lauded 2013 project for Creative Time and the Brooklyn Museum in New York City; Between the Door and the Street. Featuring a selection of texts, archival material and a three-channel video installation, Cooper Gallery captures Lacy’s and those she worked with, absolute sense of urgency to tackle how the politics of women’s bodies enter into the realms of public discourse and governmental policy.

Developing out of six months of conversations between Lacy, 400 women and a few men from activist groups in New York City, Between the Door and the Street culminated in a one-day performative public action that took place on 64 stoops in a Brooklyn neighbourhood. Witnessed by over 2500 people who entered the closed-off street, the performance audience became a ‘listening voyeur’ to unscripted conversations among groups of women, identified by yellow pashmina scarves, seated on the steps and porches of individual homes. Choreographed by activist inspired and group generated questions on gender, race, ethnicity and class, the conversations weaved together multiple intergenerational narratives that grappled with the politics of immigration, labour, poverty, all of which have significant impacts on women’s lives.

In 2025, twelve years since Between the Door and the Street happened one Saturday on a street in Brooklyn so much has and hasn’t changed for women around the world. Faced with growing authoritarianism and a profoundly illiberal backlash to decades of progressive change, Lacy’s life-long commitment to the critical issues confronting women today provides a vital clarion call to the necessity of continued community organizing and political activism. 

But Between the Door and the Street isn’t simply ‘politics’; for Cooper Gallery Lacy’s work illuminates the subtle conversational poetics that is intimately present in the struggle for women’s freedom from oppression and violence.

Events

Suzanne Lacy: Between the Door and the Street | Preview
Thursday 27 February 2025, 5.30–8.30pm
Exhibition preview and drinks reception (In-person)

Suzanne Lacy in-conversation with Sophia Yadong Hao
Thursday 27 March 2025, 6.30–8.00pm
(Online)

Who Does Art Make Visible?
Thursday 3 April 2025, 6.30–8.00pm
Panel Discussion (In-person)

The Stokes boundary layer is an oscillatory flow above an infinite plate, with oscillations driven either by (1) a transverse sinusoidal motion of the plate or (2) a sinusoidal applied pressure gradient. Beyond a critical Reynolds number of 2511, the laminar solution of the Stokes boundary layer is susceptible to linear instability. However, this instability is subcritical given that turbulence is observed for Reynolds numbers above approximately 700 despite the flow being linearly stable in this range.

The state space of a subcritical flow consists of two basins of attraction: that of the laminar flow and that of turbulence. A saddle point separates these basins, termed the ‘edge state’, and its codimension-one stable manifold termed the ‘edge manifold’, or simply ‘edge’. The edge states may be found by ‘edge tracking’, an iterative procedure in which the trajectories of initial conditions on either side of the edge are computed and bisected.

Edge states in the Stokes boundary layer are composed of vortical structures of the same nature as canonical shear flows, namely streaks, rolls and waves. For non-oscillating shear flows, these structures are known to coexist and mutually balance through a mechanism known as the Self-Sustained Process. However, in the Stokes boundary layer, these structures are inherently periodic and utilise the oscillating base flow in a novel way. Structures migrate upwards to align with the location of the maximum shear of the laminar velocity profile, and large-scale rolls form to periodically create new streaks near the wall. This talk will present these edge states in the Stokes boundary layer, compare them to their known non-oscillatory counterparts, and provide insights about their effects on mass and momentum transport near the wall.

Venue: Fulton Building, Room G20

Cancer, a complex and multifaceted disease, is characterized by distinct biological capabilities known as the Hallmarks of Cancer. These hallmarks include sustaining proliferative signaling, evading growth suppressors, resisting cell death, enabling replicative immortality, inducing angiogenesis, activating invasion and metastasis, and more recently, avoiding immune destruction, deregulating cellular energetics, and promoting genome instability.

Similarly, Mathematical Oncology has, since its inception 50 years ago, focused on studying these hallmarks through various mathematical approaches. These include differential equations, agent-based models, and stochastic processes. These efforts aim to quantify and predict the dynamics of tumour growth, metastasis, treatment, and therapeutic responses, thereby providing a deeper understanding of Cancer Biology and informing treatment strategies.

In this lecture, we will explore major developments in the mathematical study of the Hallmarks of Cancer, tracing their evolution from initial conceptualization to the current understanding of Cancer Biology and their contributions to Medicine. During this process, we will employ various mathematical approaches and demonstrate the utility of these models. By integrating biological data, these models help elucidate the dynamic interactions between cancer cells and their microenvironment. Specific emphasis will be placed on predicting tumour growth, invasion, metastasis, treatment, and the emergence of resistance.

We will conclude with the most recent developments in the field and discuss a number of open questions that remain open for the future of Mathematical Oncology. These will include potential new directions for research, emerging techniques in modeling, the use of Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality techniques, and the ongoing challenges in translating mathematical insights into clinical practice and ultimately contributing to improved patient outcomes and Personalised Medicine.

Venue: Fulton Building, Room G20

This special creative workshop accompanies our current exhibition Nell Baxter and Dundee's Celtic Revival. Take inspiration from Nell Baxter's pattern making techniques to create your own beautiful Celtic Revival inspired illustrations.

Artist Jo Hanning (whose work also features in the exhibition) shares methods she learned from studying a large collection of artwork by Nell Baxter (1874-1952) recently gifted to the University.

Relax in a chilled and friendly environment and discover the mindful magic of pattern work.

Materials will be provided but feel free to bring some of your own if you wish!

Meet in the Lamb Gallery on the first floor of the Tower Building.

Please note - the event is intended for adults only. 

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