{"id":3273,"date":"2022-02-24T17:27:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T17:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=3273"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:46:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:46:46","slug":"what-i-am-reading-now-ashanti-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/what-i-am-reading-now-ashanti-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"What I am reading now – Ashanti Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cooper Gallery’s\u00a0What I am Reading Now <\/i><\/span>\u2026 is an ongoing online publication. In 2022 Black practitioners and practitioners of colour are invited to share, with a preface, a selection of five readings that are shaping their current thinking, research and practice. \"\"<\/p>\n

The\u00a0February issue features a contribution by Ashanti Harris<\/b>, who is a multi-disciplinary artist and researcher based in Glasgow and the Cooper Gallery’s own Ignorant Art School Sit-in Curriculum facilitator<\/span>. Working with dance, performance, facilitation, film, installation and writing, Ashanti\u2019s work disrupts historical narratives and reimagines them from a Caribbean diasporic perspective.<\/p>\n

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Artist’s Portrait courtesy Ashanti Harris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ashanti shares what she\u2019s feeling, doing, listening to and reading now on\u00a0Cooper Gallery’s website<\/a>. Here is a summary of her choices, head to the website to explore more!<\/p>\n

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Ashanti Harris<\/a><\/b>\u00a0is a multi-disciplinary artist and researcher based in Glasgow. Working with dance, performance, facilitation, film, installation and writing, Ashanti\u2019s work disrupts historical narratives and reimagines them from a Caribbean diasporic perspective. As part of her creative practice, she is co-director of the dance company Project X \u2013 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) \u2013 facilitating experimental movement workshops and research groups. She is also lecturer in Contemporary Performance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and co-facilitates the British Art Network research group The Re-Action of Black Performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Cooper Gallery’s\u00a0What I am Reading Now \u2026 is an ongoing online publication. In 2022 Black practitioners and practitioners of colour are invited to share, with a preface, a selection of five readings that are shaping their current thinking, research and practice. The\u00a0February issue features a contribution by Ashanti Harris, who is a multi-disciplinary artist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":3250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-djcad"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6244,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions\/6244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}