An Art and Life Class: Convening Critical Women to Resist Art Schooling

Name: An Art and Life Class: Convening Critical Women to Resist Art Schooling
Start: 2024-11-21T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-11-21T21:30:00+01:00
Location: 13 Perth Road, DD1 4HT Dundee, United Kingdom

Schedule

Thu Nov 21 2024 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

13 Perth Road, DD1 4HT Dundee, United Kingdom | Dundee, SC

An analogue slide show presentation and talk by Adele Patrick, co-founder of both Women in Profile (WiP) and Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL).
In the mid 1980’s a group of women studying at Glasgow School of Art began to meet in each other’s flats with slides of their work and a projector for ‘Slide Criticism’ sessions. Responding to the prevailing art institutional pedagogy that erased women’s lives and contributions to art and history formation, these informal, packed, self-organised and facilitated meetings were a counter cultural locus informed by consciousness raising to discuss women’s art, women artists and feminism. They were a precursor to the founding of Women in Profile (WiP) and subsequently Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL).
Adele Patrick, who was a 'Slide Criticism' meeting host, will show slides from the original meetings (now held in the GWL collection), discuss their rationale, their legacy and the pre-digital technologies involved.
This workshop forms part of the free curriculum of events for The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #4 Outside the Circle.
SIGN-UP
Event is free and open to all to attend. Sign-up for a free space via Eventbrite. Link here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-art-and-life-class-convening-critical-women-to-resist-art-schooling-tickets-1006826945497?aff=oddtdtcreator
BIOGRAPHY
Adele Patrick has been developing innovative cultural projects rooted in equalities and in academic research and community learning and teaching for over 30 years. She co-founded Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL) in 1991 and is currently a Co-Director. Trained as a designer at Glasgow School of Art (where she subsequently taught Gender, Art and Culture) Adele has worked collaboratively with writers, visual artists, filmmakers and performers throughout her career, most recently Reiko Goto Collins and Yoko Ono for Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art 2024. She has published widely in academic, professional and popular journals and regularly speaks at national and international conferences.
Following a Clore Leadership Fellowship in 2018/2019, Adele undertook Post Fellowship research on Feminist Leadership in the cultural realm, a field she is continuing to explore with a range of international colleagues and organisations in her capacity as a coach, mentor, consultant and advisor to academic researchers. Some of her findings are accessible here. In 2022 she joined the Board of the V&A Dundee and in 2023 was awarded the Fletcher of Saltoun Award from the Saltire Society.
ACCESS
The gallery is on two floors. First floor has ramped access and disabled toilet.
Second floor is accessible via lift and for wheelchair access via a stairclimber. Please email in advance if you require lift or stairclimber access.
Exhibition videos are subtitled and captioned in English. Seating is provided and/or additional seating available, please ask an invigilator.
Large print versions of the exhibition information handout are available, please ask our Guides.
If you require live captions for the discussion please email to request.
For all enquiries please email: [email protected]