Artist Adrian Pepe in conversation with Dr Jessica Gerschultz & Professor Victoria Donovan

Friday 25 September 2026, 14:00-16:00 Generator Projects, Dundee, 25/26 Mid Wynd Industrial Estate, Dundee, DD1 4JG To mark the closing of Everything for Everybody, we welcomed artist Adrian Pepe to be in conversation with collaborator and interlocutor Dr Jessica Gerscultz, alongside Professor Victoria Donovan from the exhibition’s curatorial team. This conversation explored Adrian’s practice, including … Read more

ONWARD! | Flaherty Film Seminar Gatherings

Saturday, 6th of December, 20255:00 pm to 7:15 pm Buchanan Lecture Theatre, University of St Andrews In moments of great upheaval, can cinema provide fuel for a radical paradigm shift? What cultural momentum does the cinema offer us today? The very acts of making and watching non-fiction films are rooted deep in legacies of solidarity and … Read more

Art Practices in Times of War: Ukrainian Artist and Authors Residency

In June of 2022, NGO Cultural Traffic organised a series of pop-up residencies for artists and other creatives in the Carpathian Mountains, a relatively safe area in western Ukraine. Organized by Olena Kasperovych, an art curator from Kharkiv, the residencies did not require artists to create any “finished products” (artworks, exhibitions, texts), but instead offered … Read more

Dispatches from the Quiet Centre

Vira Karpinska: Documentary cinema and DOCU/CLUB in Ukraine during war Thursday 17 April 2025 Vira Karpinska, a member of the DOCU/CLUB initiative in Ukraine, spoke about the role of making and watching documentaries in precarious times and spaces, the role of cinema in community developments, and the challenges and aspirations of independent documentary movements in … Read more

Horizon Blossom, Borders Vanish

Anna Torres and Michael Alpert Horizons Blosom Dr Anna Elena Torres read from her latest book Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature, in a conversation with Dr Jeffrey Stevenson Murer, Director of the Centre for Art and Politics with conversational and musical contributions from Michael Alpert. Dr Anna Elena Torres is an assistant … Read more

Oqlanmagan – The Unexonerated – Film screening and Q&A session

In the 1990s, Uzbekistan’s first president Islam Karimov arrested tens of thousands of practising Muslims, imams, and citizens engaged in Islamic study groups, forcing them to sign pre-written confessions that led to decades in prison on terrorism and treason charges. Following Karimov’s death in 2016, his successor, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, acknowledged for the first time the … Read more

Maré from the Inside: Race, Gender and Utopia in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas

Maré from the Inside: Race, Gender and Utopia in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas

Maré from the Inside: Race, Gender & Utopia in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas Maré from the Inside was an interactive multi-media exhibit developed by artists, activists, and academics from Complexo da Maré, a group of 16 contiguous favelas (informal and marginalised neighbourhoods) in Rio de Janeiro. The exhibit’s photographs, films, and texts presented Maré and … Read more

‘All. Rights. Matter.’ // Centre for Art and Politics Seminar

Thursday 21 September 20234:00pm to 5:30pm School II, St Salvator’s Quad, School II “All. Rights. Matter.“: “Leilah Babiyre made and exhibited the installation ‘I care about you’ (2016) during the ARTWORK AT KAMPALA Exhibition hosted at Makerere University in 2016. She used this work to publicly declare that she was gay (something that costed her … Read more