Jamming Day 2 | Learning from Stuart Hall: What Do We See? What Do We Say? Screening Event

Jamming Day 2 | Learning from Stuart Hall: What Do We See? What Do We Say?
Screening Event at Cooper GalleryScreening of John Akomfrah’s Stuart Hall Project (2013) introduced by Ranjana Thapalyal with an incantatory verse summoning in response by Omar Kholeif and artist-designed refreshment by Jek McAllister.
A screening event centred on John Akomfrah’s film The Stuart Hall Project - Revolution, politics, culture, and the New Left experience (2013). The film is presented as a starting point to thinking about Hall’s emphasis on understanding the present moment, its historical threads and its potentials. In the face of recent ruptures in contemporary culture and politics and what many see as a backward slide in a belief in social cohesion, what can be learned from Hall’s insistence that while there are patterns which created the present, they do not necessarily determine what may yet be. The event aims to look to methods of reading the contested present in order to build actions of hope.
The event will be bracketed by an introduction from Ranjana Thapalyal and an incantatory verse summoning in response from Omar Kholeif.Part of Jamming The Ignorant Art School - Exhibition: 9 October – 12 December 2026About the Exhibition
Jamming The Ignorant Art School is an experimental exhibition and event project bringing together the ideas, tactics and strategies that have resonated most strongly with artists, contributors and participants across The Ignorant Art School: Five Sit-ins Towards Creative Emancipation (2021–2025), Cooper Gallery’s landmark five-year programme.Featured Artworks and Archives
Featured artworks by Sam Ainsley with Anne-Marie Copestake, Anne Bean, Sutapa Biswas, Sheba Chhachhi, Ruth Ewan, Tari Ito, Audre Lorde, Annabel Nicolson, The Otolith Group, Old Boys Network, Georgina Starr and Monica Ross alongside archival and ephemeral material of Edinburgh Arts, Haven for Artists, The Hackney Flashers, Gudskul, OutRage!, Rooftop Institute, The Hedgeschool Project, The Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, The 1968 Hornsey Sit-in, and Womanifesto.Event Access
Event will take place on level 2 of the gallery
For General Access and Access Fund information see Cooper Gallery’s website at University of Dundee
Funding support: The exhibition is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland and with the kind support of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Centenary Trust.