{"id":3454,"date":"2022-06-17T09:10:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T08:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=3454"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:46:45","slug":"3454","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/3454\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Hour Sit-in Revel: Cooper Gallery at the Botanic Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cooper Gallery DJCAD will be holding a 12 Hour international symposium, the 12 Hour Sit-in Revel<\/a>, one of the culminating events of their ongoing programme the Ignorant Art School,<\/a> which\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>will be held at Dundee Botanic Garden on Sat. 25th<\/sup>\u00a0June (11am \u2013 11pm).<\/p>\n

The event will be a 12-hour open-air conversations, dance, music, performance, readings, screenings, workshops, and food to re-imagine art education and unsettle systems of knowledge.<\/p>\n

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The Otolith Group. O Horizon, 2018. Film still. Courtesy and copyright the artists and LUX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u00a0will feature esteemed figures including\u00a0Sam Ainsley and David Harding,\u00a0<\/b>who established and led the influential Environmental Art course at Glasgow School of Art which produced many Turner Prize winners and nominees;\u00a0Prof. Regina Bittner<\/b>, Head of the Academy and\u00a0Deputy Director at\u00a0Bauhaus Dessau Foundation;\u00a0Gudskul,\u00a0<\/b>the educational platform of Jakarta-based artists collectives\u00a0ruangrupa,\u00a0who are curating the 2022 edition of Documenta15, one of the most important contemporary art events in the world;\u00a0\u00a0Serubiri\u00a0Moses<\/b>, a Ugandan curator based in New York who was one of the curators of the 10th<\/sup>\u00a0Berlin Biennale;\u00a0Kapil\u00a0Seshasayee,<\/b>\u00a0a celebrated Scottish-Indian musician whose work was lauded by The Guardian as “one of the most promising debut albums to come out of Scotland in recent years”;\u00a0\u00a0Ross Sinclair,<\/b>\u00a0a long-established artist and alumni of Environmental Art course at GSA\u00a0\u00a0who is now a professor\u00a0of Contemporary Art Practice\u00a0at GSA; and critically recognised artists\u00a0Barby Asante<\/b>, Hardeep\u00a0Pandhal<\/b>, and more.<\/p>\n

The event will also screen\u00a0O Horizon<\/i>, a feature-length film by Turner Prize nominees, artists collective<\/b>\u00a0The Otolith Group,\u00a0<\/b>which reflects\u00a0on the poetry and experimental teaching techniques of\u00a0Bengali\u00a0polymath and the winner of\u00a0Nobel Prize for Literature\u00a0Rabindranath Tagore.<\/p>\n

Sat. 25th<\/sup>\u00a0June (11am \u2013 11pm)Venue: Dundee Botanic Garden
\nRegister for free tickets via\u00a0Eventbrite<\/a><\/p>\n

Re-imagining art education and unsettling systems of knowledge,\u00a0The Ignorant\u00a0Art School<\/a>\u00a0in the shade of trees in summertime will cultivate alternative futures, determined not by what we know, but by how we learn, unlearn, create and share knowledge together. In the words of the visionary Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, the\u00a012 Hour Sit-in Revel<\/em>\u00a0will activate a landscape \u201cwhere the mind is without fear, the head is held high and where knowledge is free.\u201d<\/p>\n

Inhabiting Dundee\u2019s Botanic Garden and timed by Ruth Ewan\u2019s revolutionary decimal clock, the revel will host a convivial convergence for visions and praxes of radical, ethical and accessible pedagogies that question what art education is and who it serves. Addressing knowledge as a collaborative, collective and social experience, the revel will manifest the actual plurality of lived perspectives that constitute our world.<\/p>\n

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Ruth Ewan, We Could Have Been Anything That We Wanted to Be, 2011. Installed at Cooper Gallery entrance 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Radical in intent and collaborative by nature, the\u00a012 Hour Sit-in Revel<\/em>\u00a0will bring together a coalition of artists, activists, culture workers, educators, musicians, performers, students, thinkers, writers, and various communities in Scotland and from around the world to sing and dance, to observe and reflect, to listen and watch, to converse, question, and so constitute a \u2018field of possibility\u2019 (bell hooks).<\/p>\n

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The Otolith Group. O Horizon, 2018, film still. Courtesy and copyright the artists and LUX.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Celebrating equality of access with a generous solidarity, the\u00a012 Hour Sit-in Revel<\/em>\u00a0asserts the potential of transforming knowledge from a capitalist commodity to an emancipatory power available to all.<\/p>\n

Contributors:<\/strong><\/h2>\n
http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/06\/contributors-slide-1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n

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Sam Ainsley (artist and educator)
\nSaoirse Amira Anis (artist)
\nAdam Benmakhlouf (artist and DJCAD doctoral candidate)
\nRabindranath X Bhose (artist)
\nRegina Bittner (Head of the Academy and\u00a0Deputy Director,\u00a0\u00a0Bauhaus Dessau Foundation)
\nAnne-Marie Copestake (artist and educator)
\nJemma Desai (writer and researcher) & Barby Asante (artist, curator and educator)
\nRuth Ewan (artist)
\nLen Goetzee (artist)
\nGudskul (educational knowledge-sharing platform of Jakarta-based artists collectives ruangrupa, Serrum, and Grafis Huru Hara)
\nDavid Harding (artist and educator)
\nAshanti Harris (artist) & Mele Broomes (artist)
\nFrances Lingard (artist)
\nJade Montserrat (artist, researcher and activist)
\nHarun Morrison (artist and writer)
\nSerubiri\u00a0Moses (curator and writer)
\nHardeep Pandhal and\u00a0Joe Howe\u00a0(MIDIevil x Spider Knife)
\nUndine Sellbach (artist and lecturer)
\nKapil Seshasayee (musician)
\nRoss Sinclair (artist and educator)
\nRanjana\u00a0Thapalyal (artist and writer) & Hamshya Rajkumar (artist)
\nGrant Watson (curator)
\nAwuor Onyango (artist)
\nThe Otolith Group (artist collective)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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