Abstract
1 February 2025
11am–11pm
Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, Dundee
Cooper Gallery in Dundee invite you to join our 12 Hour Acting Up and revitalise She Town’s much lauded spirit of heckling – the art and craft of speaking loud and proud to those who claim to be ‘in charge’.
Reverberating with the attitude, poise and pose of intersectional feminist and queer agitation and dissent, The Ignorant Art School’s Sit-in #4 Outside the Circle culminates with an international coalition of artists, activists, culture workers, educators, students, musicians, performers, writers, and feminist and LGBTQ+ communities in Scotland and from around the world.
Celebrating the socially embedded acts of self-knowledge emblematic of feminist and queer activism, 12 Hour Acting Up broadcasts the difficult yet profound truth of lived experience which feminist and queer activism courageously speaks to power.
Defiantly empowering the experiences of the oppressed and marginalised, 12 Hour Acting Up will channel feminist and queer ‘practices of knowing’ through a constellation of affective memories and critical reflections expressed as collective readings, sewing, singing, dancing, storytelling, talks, performances, street theatre, round table discussions, screenings and workshops.
Unfolding the possibilities of assembly, collective actions and spirited protest 12 Hour Acting Up will reveal, in all their radical complexity and zeal, the global legacies and future promise of feminist and queer acts of emancipatory pedagogy. But much more than this 12 Hour Acting Up desires to share Audre Lorde’s assertion of ‘the erotic’ as ‘the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.’
Contributors
Sam Ainsley (artist and educator)
Saoirse Amira Anis (artist)
Sutapa Biswas (artist)
Sheba Chhachhi (artist and photographer)
Phyllis Christopher (photographer)
Akwugo Emejulu (political sociologist)
Erica Eyres (artist and educator)
Erin Farley (storyteller and historian)
Karen Di Franco (curator)
Althea Greenan (curator)
Laura Guy (writer)
Haven for Artists (feminist collective)
Dima Hamdan (filmmaker)
Sabrina Henry (curator)
Shilpa T-Hyland (theatre director)
Amelia Jones (theorist and historian)
nussatari with naafi (artists)
Shola von Reinhold (writer)
Dagmar Schultz (filmmaker)
Cornelia Sollfrank (artist and researcher)
Tako Taal (artist)
Peter Tatchell (activist)
Womanifesto (artists collective)
Ajamu X (artist)
11am–11pm
Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, Dundee
Cooper Gallery in Dundee invite you to join our 12 Hour Acting Up and revitalise She Town’s much lauded spirit of heckling – the art and craft of speaking loud and proud to those who claim to be ‘in charge’.
Reverberating with the attitude, poise and pose of intersectional feminist and queer agitation and dissent, The Ignorant Art School’s Sit-in #4 Outside the Circle culminates with an international coalition of artists, activists, culture workers, educators, students, musicians, performers, writers, and feminist and LGBTQ+ communities in Scotland and from around the world.
Celebrating the socially embedded acts of self-knowledge emblematic of feminist and queer activism, 12 Hour Acting Up broadcasts the difficult yet profound truth of lived experience which feminist and queer activism courageously speaks to power.
Defiantly empowering the experiences of the oppressed and marginalised, 12 Hour Acting Up will channel feminist and queer ‘practices of knowing’ through a constellation of affective memories and critical reflections expressed as collective readings, sewing, singing, dancing, storytelling, talks, performances, street theatre, round table discussions, screenings and workshops.
Unfolding the possibilities of assembly, collective actions and spirited protest 12 Hour Acting Up will reveal, in all their radical complexity and zeal, the global legacies and future promise of feminist and queer acts of emancipatory pedagogy. But much more than this 12 Hour Acting Up desires to share Audre Lorde’s assertion of ‘the erotic’ as ‘the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.’
Contributors
Sam Ainsley (artist and educator)
Saoirse Amira Anis (artist)
Sutapa Biswas (artist)
Sheba Chhachhi (artist and photographer)
Phyllis Christopher (photographer)
Akwugo Emejulu (political sociologist)
Erica Eyres (artist and educator)
Erin Farley (storyteller and historian)
Karen Di Franco (curator)
Althea Greenan (curator)
Laura Guy (writer)
Haven for Artists (feminist collective)
Dima Hamdan (filmmaker)
Sabrina Henry (curator)
Shilpa T-Hyland (theatre director)
Amelia Jones (theorist and historian)
nussatari with naafi (artists)
Shola von Reinhold (writer)
Dagmar Schultz (filmmaker)
Cornelia Sollfrank (artist and researcher)
Tako Taal (artist)
Peter Tatchell (activist)
Womanifesto (artists collective)
Ajamu X (artist)
| Original language | English |
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| Type | A 12 Hour gathering of conversations, dancing, food, performance, reading, screenings, singing, storytelling and talks to collectively re-imagine art education by celebrating acts of self-knowledge in feminist and queer activism. |
| Publisher | Cooper Gallery |
| Place of Publication | DJCAD, Dundee |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Feb 2025 |