Expand Extract Repent Repeat

Talk & Discussion with Adam HajYahia, Bahar Noorizadeh, and Nida Sinnokrot

In Expand Extract Repent Repeat, Nida Sinnokrot offers a public presentation on a body of work composed of sculptures, photographs, and installations that deal with flows of capital, cycles of debt, and mythical interpretations of colonial financial domination. Although Sinnokrot’s primary site of research and creation is Palestine, the presentation traces carceral lineages across global colonial networks, neoliberal transformations as they intervene in the environment, and local reverberations of universalist financial ideologies. Expand Extract Repent Repeat will be followed by a conversation between Nida Sinnokrot, Adam HajYahia, and Bahar Noorizadeh.

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Watch along with us in person!

This is an Online event, which we will also be sharing in person at the Gallery.

Join us otherwise in person for a live Watch-Along of the event at Cooper Gallery.

This is FREE and untickited.

Doors open: 18:15

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Speakers Biographies

Nida Sinnokrot is an artist and educator whose work explores how various forms of power and bias are embedded in dominant narrative structures and attendant articulations of time and space. Working across film, video, photography, sculpture, installation, and agriculture, Nida seeks to expose and cannibalize -through tactile, tactical, and material acts of technical and conceptual detournement- various technologies of control that give rise to shifting social, political and environmental instabilities. Nida is a co-founder of Sakiya – Art | Science | Agriculture, an international residency programme and research platform in the West Bank village of Ein Qinya, and Associate Professor in the Art, Culture, and Technology program (ACT) at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Adam HajYahia’s work examines how aesthetic practices of image-making, performance, writing, and sound—both within and outside the art market—reflect on, simulate, initiate, and break apart sociality and political consciousness, particularly after the advent of colonial modernity. Through his work as a scholar, writer, and curator, he deals with the at once harmonious and dissonant relations between psychoanalysis and social organization, desire and labor, and settler-colonial and imperial economies and forms of political rebellion. He is currently Associate Curator at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts, Bard College.

Bahar Noorizadeh’s work looks at the relationship between art and capitalism, and their entangled moral, social and organisational technologies. In her practice as an artist, theorist and filmmaker, she examines the conflictual and contradictory notions of imagination and speculation as they collapse into one another. Her research investigates the histories and the futures of economics, from cybernetic socialism to neoliberal finance, and activist strategies against the financialization of life and the living space, asking what redistributive historical justice might look like for the present.

Noorizadeh is the founder and organiser of Weird Economies, a multi-authored platform dedicated to radical economic imaginaries. Her work has appeared at the Guggenheim Museum NYC (2024), Taipei Biennial (2023), Venice Architecture Biennial (2021), Transmediale Festival (2020, 2022), Tate Modern Artists’ Cinema Program (2018), and Geneva Biennale of Moving Images (2018) among others. She is the co-editor of the e-flux special issue on Iran (May 2024) and has contributed essays to e-flux Architecture, Journal of Visual Culture, and Sternberg Press, and anthologies by Duke University Press and MIT Press. Noorizadeh completed a PhD in Art at Goldsmiths, University of London and is currently teaching in MA Geo-Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven.

www.baharnoorizadeh.com

Co-curated with Bahar Noorizadeh, part of Weird Economies x Scotland programmed alongside Noorizadeh's exhibition at Cooper Gallery, The Debtor's Portal.

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Access

Cooper Gallery is located to the right side of the DJCAD buildings on Perth Road. The entrance is via double doors which face onto a car park.

The gallery is on two floors. Ground floor has ramped access. First floor is accessible by an internal lift and six steps with a handrail. Wheelchair access is via a stairclimber. Please email in advance if you require lift or stairclimber access.

First floor is also accessible via 24 steps. Two flights of 12 steps with handrails are separated by a landing.

Exhibition video is captioned in English. Audio will be played aloud via speakers. Seating is provided and/or additional seating available, please ask an invigilator.

For all enquiries please email: coopergallery@dundee.ac.uk

Toilets

The ground floor has a wheelchair accessible toilet. The toilet is gender neutral.

Interpretation

Large print versions of the exhibition information handout are available, please ask our Guides. If you require alternative formats for material in exhibitions please email or ask our Guides.

Funding support

The exhibition is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland and with the kind support of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Centenary Trust. The Otolith Collective is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.