Coopery Gallery bring together the artists and ideas that shaped their landmark five-year programme The Ignorant Art School for an experimental exhibition and event project.

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Since 2021 The Ignorant Art School has critically and creatively recast the relationships between art and society, offering radical imaginings for socially transformative art education through a five chapter exhibition and event programme.

Cooper Gallery now invites everyone to join them for Jamming The Ignorant Art School, an experimental exhibition and event project bringing together the artists, provocations, and ideas that shaped this landmark five-year programme.

The exhibition will transform Cooper Gallery into an immersive ‘open classroom’ for deep engagement with the ideas and practices that have given The Ignorant Art School its critical rigour, revolutionary attitude, and emancipatory poise.

Inspired by the energy and improvisation of musical jamming, the accompanying events programme, Jamming Days, invites you to take part in conversations, activities and collective experiments. Join them to learn and unlearn, explore, contribute, and make space for different ways of knowing.

Jamming The Ignorant Art School will run from Fri 9 October – Sat 12 December 2026 (open Thu–Sat, 12–5pm).

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Jamming The Ignorant Art School: Jamming Days

• Queering the Classroom: Refusal, Love, and Disruption 
  Sat 24 Oct, 12–5pm 
  Participatory performance workshop, card game, listening and collective deliberations
• Learning from Stuart Hall: What Do We See? What Do We Say?
  Thu 29 Oct, 6–8.30pm 
  Screening of John Akomfrah’s Stuart Hall Project (2013) introduced by Ranjana Thapalyal with an incantatory verse summoning in response by Omar Kholeif
• Dundonian Dissent: Sowing Class 
  Sat 14 Nov, 12–5pm 
  Voice workshop, storytelling, seed sowing, Theatre of Oppressed exercise and collective deliberations conceived by Ruth Ewan and facilitated by special guests
• Learning from Counter-Futures: Practising Afrofuturisms
  Sat 28 Nov, 12–5pm 
  Readings, screening, sound intervention and collective deliberations led by The Otolith Group and facilitated by special guests.