Weird Ecologies of Art

In-conversation with Bahar Noorizadeh and The Otolith Collective Chaired by Sophia Yadong Hao

To mark the opening of The Debtor's Portal, a conversation between Bahar Noorizadeh and The Otolith Collective (Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun) will chart the aesthetic concerns and urgent critical questions underscoring Noorizadeh’s practice. Highlighting the role of collaborative research in shaping rigorous artistic endeavours, the conversation will also consider the significance of self-organised research and learning communities animating diasporic and transnational art ecologies in the UK.

Audience info

The event is free and open to all.
Book a seat for the panel discussion via Eventbrite.
The exhibition preview and drinks reception is un-ticketed.
Alcoholic drinks will be served and non-alcoholic refreshments will be available.

Schedule

5.30pm Doors open
6pm In-conversation (Weird Ecologies of Art)
7.30pm Exhibition viewing (Bahar Noorizadeh: The Debtor's Portal)
8.30pm Doors close

Artist’s Biography

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-Curator Biography

The Otolith Collective is a long-standing artist-led organisation that supports intergenerational and intragenerational art practices through research-led projects, writing, and process-based development. It fosters environments for discourse and collaboration by co-commissioning artists and curating exhibitions and public programmes in partnership with a diverse range of institutions and organisations locally and internationally. The Otolith Collective’s platforms include workshops, reading groups, panels, book launches, screenings, and publications.

https://www.otolithgroup.org/public-programme

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 exhibition and performance 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: exhibitions@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

The Debtor’s Portal, is the largest solo exhibition to date in the UK by Iranian-Canadian artist, writer and filmmaker Bahar Noorizadeh, co-curated with The Otolith Collective and Interrogates the entangled relationships between art, capitalism, imagination and collective futures.

Visit
13 February – 11 April 2026
Tuesday – Saturday, 12–5pm

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.