The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #3, The Otolith Group: …But There Are New Suns, exhibition, Cooper Gallery, Dundee

TY - ADVS

T1 - The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #3, The Otolith Group

T2 - …But There Are New Suns, exhibition, Cooper Gallery, Dundee

A2 - Hao, Sophia Yadong

A2 - Eshun, Kodwo

A2 - Sagar , Anjalika

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - Exhibition Dates: Friday 13 October 2023 - Saturday 16 December 2023 Exhibition Venue: Cooper Gallery, Dundee Sit-in #3 | The Otolith Group: …But There Are New Suns is the third phase in the ongoing five-phase curatorial project The Ignorant Art School; Five Sit-ins towards Creative Emancipation (TIAS). Funded by Creative Scotland, Sit-in#3 is the first solo exhibition in Scotland by artists collective The Otolith Group. Locating filmmaking as a literal and metaphoric site of ‘study’ the exhibition consisted of two film installations; the UK premiere of The Otolith Group’s new moving image work (of which Hao is co-producer) What the Owl Knows (2022) and O Horizon (2018) with a public engagement programme of ten online and in-person events. Reconfiguring Senegalese film director Ousmane Sembène’s idea of ‘cinema as a night school’ as a methodology, the public engagement programme: Sit-in Curriculum #3 explores the sociality of cinema as a site of alternative and collective learning. Interrogating tropes of science fiction, postcolonial histories, experimental music and ecological forces, the screenings, discussions, performances and reading groups constituting the public engagement programme interrupt dominant narratives of knowledge creation to envision possible futures for knowledge creation using the prism of the generative and collaborative ethos of Afrofuturism.

AB - Exhibition Dates: Friday 13 October 2023 - Saturday 16 December 2023 Exhibition Venue: Cooper Gallery, Dundee Sit-in #3 | The Otolith Group: …But There Are New Suns is the third phase in the ongoing five-phase curatorial project The Ignorant Art School; Five Sit-ins towards Creative Emancipation (TIAS). Funded by Creative Scotland, Sit-in#3 is the first solo exhibition in Scotland by artists collective The Otolith Group. Locating filmmaking as a literal and metaphoric site of ‘study’ the exhibition consisted of two film installations; the UK premiere of The Otolith Group’s new moving image work (of which Hao is co-producer) What the Owl Knows (2022) and O Horizon (2018) with a public engagement programme of ten online and in-person events. Reconfiguring Senegalese film director Ousmane Sembène’s idea of ‘cinema as a night school’ as a methodology, the public engagement programme: Sit-in Curriculum #3 explores the sociality of cinema as a site of alternative and collective learning. Interrogating tropes of science fiction, postcolonial histories, experimental music and ecological forces, the screenings, discussions, performances and reading groups constituting the public engagement programme interrupt dominant narratives of knowledge creation to envision possible futures for knowledge creation using the prism of the generative and collaborative ethos of Afrofuturism.

KW - Artist's film

KW - Decolonisation

KW - art pedagogy

KW - alternative pedagogy

KW - black Atlantic

KW - Contemporary Art

KW - Contemporary Art Curating

KW - Afrofuturism

KW - Collaboration

KW - artists collaboration

UR - https://www.dundee.ac.uk/events/ignorant-art-school-sit-3-otolith-group

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UR - https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/543655/the-otolith-group-but-there-are-new-suns/

M3 - Exhibition

PB - Cooper Gallery

CY - DJCAD, Dundee

ER -