Join Cooper Gallery for a series of public events co-curated with Bahar Noorizadeh to accompany exhibition ‘The Debtor’s Portal’.

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Running alongside their current exhibition ‘The Debtor’s Portal‘ from writer and filmmaker Bahar Noorizadeh, Cooper Gallery present Weird Economies x Scotland – a series of public workshops, discussions and performances.

Building on Weird Economies, founded by Noorizadeh in 2021, the event series engages with the distinctive art ecologies of Scotland to deepen and amplify Noorizadeh’s interrogation of the critical relationships between art, society and financialization.

By critically addressing organisational structures and forms of agency in culture production, Weird Economies x Scotland highlights the necessity for renewed investment in grassroots initiatives and solidarity-based practices. The event series aims to grasp the changing reality of being an art practitioner amid the ongoing precarity of public funding in a world suffering the political instability of authoritarianism.

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Weird Economies x Scotland

Events are free, open to all and require no prior experience or knowledge to attend. Participants can sign-up via Eventbrite for one or all of the one-off sessions.

• Expand Extract Repent Repeat
  Thu 5 March, 6.30–8.30pm (Online)
  Artist’s Talk by Nida Sinnokrot & Discussion with Adam HajYahia, Bahar Noorizadeh
• Right to the City: Art and the Production of Space
  Thu 12 March, 6.30–8.30pm (In-person)
  Round Table chaired by Angela Dimitrakaki with speakers, Tiffany Kaewen Dang, Charles Mudede, and Bahar Noorizadeh
• Money Hacks 
  Thu 26 March, 6.30–8.30pm (In-person)
  Workshop facilitated by Bahar Noorizadeh 
• Reuter in Tehran
  Sat 11 April, 7–8.30pm (In-person)
  Live Performance by Bahar Noorizadeh in collaboration with Intibint