Jamming The Ignorant Art School

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) About Jamming Ignorant Art School 9 October – 12 December 2026 Open Thursday – Saturday, 12–5pm 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. Since 2021 The Ignorant Art School has critically and creatively challenged hegemonic modes of art pedagogy and knowledge production. Recasting the relationships between art and society, The Ignorant Art School offers radical imaginaries for a socially transformative art education resolutely oriented toward an emancipated future for all. Emerging from a period marked by unprecedented global social and political challenges and embracing the desires of The Ignorant Art School community established across Scotland, the UK, and beyond, Jamming the Ignorant Art School will be a tumultuous refrain and open-ended coda to the past five years of collective enquiry. Transforming Cooper Gallery into an immersive ‘open classroom’, the exhibition Jamming the Ignorant Art School steadfastly refuses the redundant hierarchies that oppressively structure everyday life, cultural expression and knowledge under neoliberal capitalism. Choreographed by an all-encompassing blackboard the exhibition transforms the gallery into a singular time-space for deep engagement with the ideas and practices that have given The Ignorant Art School its critical rigour, revolutionary attitude and, above all, its emancipatory poise. 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. Access Details on website (above) Fund available for BSL interpretation, costs for childcare, carers & support workers and other needs. Contact: coopergallery@dundee.ac.uk Open Thursday – Saturday, 12–5pm (Or by appointment) 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 Painting Film / Video Audio / Sound Prints Digital Drawing Installation Performance / Live Art Photography Sculpture Multi-disciplinary Mixed media