Living Together

To mark the opening of Sit-in #5: Companionate Rebels in Action, Grace Ndiritu will lead a collective reading of the second edition of her book Being Together: A Manual for Living.The collective reading will be interspersed by mediation breaks and followed by an in-conversation between Ndiritu and writer Judith Wilkinson who authored a foreword essay for the book, published in 2025 by Page Not Found.

This event begins A Season of Peace Building, programmed with Grace Ndiritu for The Ignorant Art School Sit-in Curriculum #5. This series of conversations, workshops and gatherings is designed by Grace Ndiritu, drawing on her book Being Together: A Manual For Living as a template.

Sign-up

Event is free and open to all to attend.Sign-up to ensure a seat via Eventbrite. Link to follow.Audiences without tickets will be welcome but we cannot guarantee seating.

Audience info

Alcoholic drinks will be served and non-alcoholic refreshments will be available.

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. First floor has ramped access and disabled toilet.

Second floor is accessible via lift and for wheelchair access via a stairclimber. The event is held on the second floor. The exhibition is on both the first and second floor of the gallery.

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 videos are subtitled and captioned in English. Seating is provided and/or additional seating available, please ask an invigilator.

Alcoholic drinks will be served. Non alcoholic refreshments available.

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.

About the exhibition

Compassionate Rebels in Action, is an exhibition and event programme by Grace Ndiritu.It is the fifth iteration of Cooper Gallery's programme, The Ignorant Art School: Five Sit-ins Towards Creative Emancipation.

Visit10 October – 13 December 2025Tuesday – Saturday, 12–5 pm

Biographies

Judith Wilkinson is a writer and curator whose work engages with questions of radical pedagogy, collective action, and the decolonisation of cultural institutions. She was recognised with an Irish Arts Council Curatorial Award for her most recent exhibition On Television, Beckett at WKV Stuttgart (2025). Wilkinson’s writing has appeared in e-flux Criticism, Artforum, Frieze, ArtReview, Art Monthly, Afterall, Apollo, The Guardian, and TATE Etc.. She wrote the foreword to Grace Ndiritu’s publication Being Together: A Manual for Living (2025), and wrote on the artist’s exhibitions Healing the Museum (S.M.A.K., Ghent) and Grace Ndiritu Reimagines the Collection (Fotomuseum Antwerp), both in 2023. In February 2025, at Ndiritu’s invitation, Wilkinson facilitated a political discussion inspired by the figures featured in The Compassionate Rebels: Tools for Everyday Living Part I (PNF, The Hague), such as artist John Latham and welfare rights activist Beulah Sanders.

Grace Ndiritu is a British-Kenyan (Maasai Kikuyu) visual artist, filmmaker and writer whose artworks are concerned with the transformation of our contemporary world.

Image credit

Healing The Museum, 2019. Performance documentation, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, BE.Photo credit: Caroline Lessire, courtesy Grace Ndiritu

Funding support

The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #5 at Cooper Gallery, DJCAD is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.