The Ignorant Art School | A Stillness Class: The Consciousness of Doing
A talk and workshop by Ranjana Thapalyal in which participants were invited to put theory into practice through a creative exercise in shifting perspectives. Introduced by Jade Montserrat.
Core ideas from four geographically and temporally distinct world views spanning millennia were presented, with a view to encouraging new territories of inter-disciplinary, inter-cultural thinking structured around the question, ‘can external revolution be effective while we remain internally unchanged?’
The Ignorant Art School: Five Sit-ins towards Creative Emancipation 25 February 2021 - 31 December 2025. A major five-chapter exhibition and event project creatively re-imagining and co-constituting radical blueprints for a socially transformative art education. Sit-in #2: Ruth Ewan ‘We Could Have Been Anything That We Wanted to Be and It’s Not Too Late to Change’
Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, University of Dundee, online event, February 2022.
Celebrating the opening of Sit-in #3 by The Otolith Group, this in-conversation event featured The Otolith Group artists Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar, and Glasgow based artist and academic Ranjana Thapalyal.
The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #3 The Otolith Group ‘But There Are New Suns…’
Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, University of Dundee, October 2023.