The Ignorant Art School exhibition and event project returns to Cooper Gallery for Sit-in #3 from Turner Prize nominated collective The Otolith Group.

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Cooper Gallery’s critically acclaimed five-chapter exhibition and event project The Ignorant Art School: Five Sit-ins towards Creative Emancipation returns for its third iteration with Sit-in #3: …But There Are New Suns; the first major exhibition in Scotland by Turner Prize nominated artist collective The Otolith Group.

Founded in London in 2002 by Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun, The Otolith Group practices modes of digital image-making, exhibition making and discourse making that seek to activate the chronopolitical potentials of differentiated futurisms. Sit in #3: …But There Are New Suns approaches the politics of time through its engagement with the poetics of temporal reconfiguration, focusing on two installations: What the Owl Knows (2022) and O Horizon (2018). 

The exhibition will run from Fri 13 Oct – Sat 16 Dec. Join Cooper Gallery on Thu 12 Oct, 6-9pm, for a preview of the exhibition and a conversation with artists Kodwo Eshun, Anjalika Sagar, and Ranjana Thapalyal.

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Sit-in Curriculum #3 – DXG: The Department of Xenogenesis

Alongside the exhibition, Cooper Gallery will present a public event series in collaboration with the Department of Xenogenesis, a time space enacted by the Otolith Group. The curriculum of events is an open invitation for interlocutors to think together critically.

• DXG #1: Thinking the Otolith Sigil
  Thu 12 Oct, 6-9pm. Exhibition preview and in-conversation.
• DXG #2: Thinking Futurisms Critically
  Thu 26 Oct, 6.30–8pm (Online)
• DXG #3: Thinking Hydropoetics Critically
  Thu 2 Nov, 6.30–8pm (In-person)
• DXG #4: Thinking Butler Attentively
  Thu 23 Nov, 6.30–8pm (Online)
• DXG #5: Thinking ‘The Idea of Black Culture’ Critically
  Thu 30 Nov, 6.30–8pm (Online)
• DXG #6: Thinking with Improvisation Critically
  Thu 7 Dec, 6.30–8pm (In-person)

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L’École du soir Cinéma

Inspired by Ousmane Sembène’s concept of cinema as ‘night school’ for collective study, Cooper Gallery will transform into a temporary cinema over four evenings of screenings of moving image by The Otolith Group. Each screening will be complemented by audio recordings from The Otolith Group and responses from invited artists and writers in Scotland.  

• L’École du soir Cinéma #1 
  Otolith II (2007)
  Wed 18 Oct, 6–8pm
• L’École du soir Cinéma #2
  I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point And Another (2012)
  Wed 1 Nov, 6–8pm
• L’École du soir Cinéma #3
  In the Year of the Quiet Sun (2013)  
  Wed 15 Nov, 6–8pm
• L’École du soir Cinéma #4
  INFINITY minus Infinity (2019)
  Wed 13 Dec, 6–8pm