The Ignorant Art School | Sit-in#1: Ruth Ewan: We Could Have Been Anything That We Wanted to Be and It’s Not Too Late to Change, Exhibition, Cooper Gallery, Dundee

Sophia Hao; Ruth Ewan

The Ignorant Art School | Sit-in#1: Ruth Ewan: We Could Have Been Anything That We Wanted to Be and It’s Not Too Late to Change, Exhibition, Cooper Gallery, Dundee

Sophia Hao (Curator), Ruth Ewan (Artist)

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Abstract

Exhibition dates: 2/09/21 → 23/10/21
Venue: Cooper Gallery, Dundee

The first iteration of the exhibition and event programme The Ignorant Art School | Five Sit-ins Towards Creative Emancipation that features new works by internationally celebrated Scottish artist Ruth Ewan.

Indexing Cooper Gallery’s art school context and the political turmoil of the 1790s when a radical movement in Dundee inspired by the French Revolution set up a ‘tree of liberty’ (an ash tree that grew on the site where the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design buildings would be built in the 1950’s) in the city, the exhibition radicalised imagination as a revolutionary act to reveal the power of collective grassroots learning and activism. Featuring a decimal clock especially installed on the public façade of Cooper Gallery, a virtual and physical perpetual Republican Calendar, a lightbox sculpture named Heckle, and an immersive installation How Many Flowers Make the Spring?, Ewan’s exhibition offers us a transcendent moment resonating with dissent and solidarity.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	DJCAD, University of Dundee
Publisher	Cooper Gallery
Media of output	Other
Publication status	Published - 2021

Keywords

curating
contemporary art
Art Exhibition
public engagement event
radical pedagogy
art education
Social History
political history
Alternative creative pedagogy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Arts and Humanities
General Social Sciences

UN SDGs

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The Ignorant Art School | Sit-in#1: Ruth Ewan: We Could Have Been Anything That We Wanted to Be and It’s Not Too Late to Change, Exhibition, Cooper Gallery, Dundee

Abstract

Keywords

ASJC Scopus subject areas

UN SDGs

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