Contemporary Art Practice Speakers Programme - Jo Longhurst

Overview

Join us for an in-conversation event with We Contain Multitudes artist Jo Longhurst and DCA’s new Head of Exhibitions Dan Brown at the University of Dundee.

They will discuss Longhurst’s contribution to the exhibition within the context of her wider practice, with a particular focus on disability, lived experience, and the politics of how bodies—especially disabled and marginalised bodies—have been framed, controlled, and reclaimed.

Artist biography

Jo Longhurst's multidisciplinary practice interrogates the politics of looking and being seen, gently probing how cultural ideas of Perfection shape personal and national identities.

Longhurst’s work explores the entangled relationships between human, animal, and ecological worlds. Her current project, Crip, centres on the resilient bindweed—an often-unwelcome wildflower—as a critical metaphor for examining cultural attitudes toward disability, care, and empathy, and for imagining more inclusive, sustainable, and equitable ways of living.

She has participated in numerous international exhibitions, including at Studio Voltaire, London; Kunsthaus Göttingen; Kelvin Hall Ballroom, Glasgow; Perth Concert Hall; Mostyn, Llandudno: Museum Folkwang, Essen; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich; Aperture, New York; Titanic Belfast; National Media Museum, Bradford; and dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel.

Image credit

Jo Longhurst, Crip (Part 1). Installation view, Studio Voltaire.

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Host or Publisher Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee