The Ignorant Art School exhibition and event project culminates with Sit-in #5 at Cooper Gallery.

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Cooper Gallery’s five-chapter exhibition and event project The Ignorant Art School: Five Sit-ins towards Creative Emancipation culminates with Sit-in #5, Compassionate Rebels in Action an exhibition staged by award winning British-Kenyan (Maasai Kikuyu) artist, filmmaker and writer Grace Ndiritu.

Deeply rooted in the transformative and celebratory power of activism and collective action, Grace Ndiritu will centre practices of radical spirituality, pedagogy, social justice, and decolonisation as compassionate and holistic means to achieve new ways of ‘being together’ in these unprecedented and unpredictable times.

Drawing on the Ndiritu’s family history of anti-apartheid and feminist activism and her own sustained engagement with protest aesthetics and meditative practices, Compassionate Rebels in Action will mediate Cooper Gallery into a liminal space in which ‘we’ can learn to meaningfully encounter and recognise each other in multiple moments of assembly.

The exhibition will run from Fri 10 October–Sat 13 December, alongside a series of conversations, workshops and gatherings designed by Ndiritu, drawing on her book Being Together: A Manual For Living.

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Sit-in Curriculum #5 // A Season of Peace Building:

• Living Together
  Thu 9 Oct, 5.30–8.30pm
  Book Launch and In-conversation with Grace Ndiritu and Judith Wilkinson. 
• Feeling Together
  Thu 16 Oct, 6.30–8.30pm
  Workshop and In-conversation with Grace Ndiritu and Lama Rinchen Polma.
• Designing Together
  Thu 30 Oct, 6.30–8.30pm
  COVERSLUT© inspired workshop facilitated by Rachel Siobhán Tyler.
• Sitting Together
  Wed 5 Nov, 6.30–8.30pm
  Online reading group facilitated by Gareth Evans.
• Writing and Decolonising Together
  Thu 20 Nov, 6.30–8pm
  Writing workshop facilitated by Titilayo Farukuoye.
• Growing and Eating Together
  Thu 4 Dec, 6.30–8pm
  Gathering facilitated by Jek McAllister.