‘Uses of the Erotic’ Collective Listening to Audre Lorde We are listening together to Lorde reading her essay ‘Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power (1978)’

‘Darkroom/Studio Intimacies: A Photographic Encounter with Phyllis Christopher and Ajamu X’ In-conversation with Phyllis Christopher and Ajamu X, chaired by Laura Guy Reflecting on affinities between their practices.

🍽️It’s now dinner time! Food provided by Beirut Restaurant. Food is free, but we encourage you to donate towards @medicalaidpal. QR codes with donation links are pasted up where food is served.

After dinner we watched ‘utter / ance’ Performance by nussatari x naafi A sonic-choreographic performance shifting through time-space, matter, states and rhythm.

We were especially excited about performance reading ‘Black Grottos’ by Shola von Reinhold (Shola von Reinhold) Dwelling on ornamentality, Black femineity, and biography.

‘Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992’ Film Screening of work by Dagmar Schultz (Dagmar Schultz) Watching a documentary of previously unreleased audiovisual material from Dagmar Schultz’s personal archive.

Thank you everyone for coming/following along online! We’ve had an amazing time at this years 12 Hour Acting Up at Cooper Gallery. Thank you to all the contributors for making it happen!

📚 Sarah Shin February #WhatIamReadingNow > buff.ly/3ExbGHz #DJCADCommunity #DundeeUniCulture

Farah Chamma What I am Reading Now... March 2025 buff.ly/0PizyMg

Suzanne Lacy, 'Between the Door and the Street', 2013 Three-channel HD video installation with sound 20 minutes (Video clip) > Showing at Cooper Gallery until 12 April 2025 buff.ly/EUCqeNa @djcad_uod @creativescots #DJCADcommunity #DundeeUniCulture

Mason Leaver-Yap What I am Reading Now... April 2025 buff.ly/6y44moc

Listen back to artist Suzanne Lacy in-conversation with Cooper Gallery Director and Principal Curator Sophia Yadong Hao discussing Lacy's 2013 project 'Between the Door and the Street' and the methods, ethics and approaches underpinning her practice. buff.ly/rU74ls9

nussatari What I am Reading Now... May 2025 buff.ly/0gRy80z

#WhatIamReadingNow June 2025 Anbara Salam buff.ly/ysOLxo1

Cooper Gallery June holiday! We are taking leave during June, after which we'll be announcing our forthcoming programme as part of The Ignorant Art School. Back soon! ____________________ Image: Suzanne Lacy, Between the Door and the Street project archives, 2013

Next at Cooper Gallery Hosting Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 > buff.ly/ysIRRGC

Nat Raha #WhatIamReadingNow July 2025 > buff.ly/1ZWcDsm

Save the date 📌 DJCAD, UoD Masters Show 2025 is around the corner! Full details > buff.ly/WeYU0sq

Cooper Gallery are seeking applications for an Event Production Assistant to join us on a part-time, fixed-term basis. 🔗 full application details buff.ly/T3VVD8e Funded by Creative Scotland

August What I am Reading Now... Karen Tam 譚嘉文 buff.ly/mazyz61 📸 Portrait by Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias, courtesy of the Toronto Biennial of Art. Book image courtesy the author