Jamming Day 1 | Queering the Classroom: Refusal, Love, and Disruption

Participatory performance workshop, card game, listening and collective deliberations and food. Contributions from Gordon Douglas, Annie Jael Kwan, Nxa Parinussa and more. Collective deliberations facilitated by James Bell and artist-designed refreshment by Jek McAllister. About Jamming Day 1 | Queering the Classroom: Refusal, Love, and Disruption Saturday 24 October 2026, 12:00 - 17:00 Participatory performance workshop, card game, listening and collective deliberations and food. Contributions from Gordon Douglas, Annie Jael Kwan, Nxa Parinussa and more to be announced. Collective deliberations facilitated by James Bell and artist-designed refreshment by Jek McAllister. About Jamming Days Tuned to the collaborative, experimental and improvisational ethos of musical ‘jamming’ and energised by the unruly possibilities of knowing otherwise, Jamming Days brings artists, curators, cultural workers, educators, students, activists, policymakers, and communities together in a series of discursive and participatory events. These charged moments of reflection, exchange and experimentation activate a constellation of (un)learning spaces, equipping individuals and communities to collectively inhabit, contest and transform this dissonant present with critical hope and solidarity that draws on knowledge in all its multiplicity. Part of Jamming The Ignorant Art School Exhibition: 9 October – 12 December 2026 A bout 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 Light vegetarian and vegan food will be provided non-alcoholic refreshments will be provided For General Access and Access Fund information see website https://www.dundee.ac.uk/events/jamming-ignorant-art-school Contact: coopergallery@dundee.ac.uk 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. Read more Toggle Sculpture Multi-disciplinary Installation Film / Video Photography Drawing Prints Audio / Sound Performance / Live Art Digital Painting Mixed media