The Centre for Art and Politics
Enhancing Contributions to Cultural Understanding
On Friday January 30th, the Centres for Art & Politics and the Study of Global Postsocialisms (GloPost), with the generous support of the Alex Danchev Fund, hosted the Toronto-based Ukrainian music group, Daughters of Donbas in School III, St Salvador’s Quad. Their tour—entitled “Songs of Stolen Children”—directly addresses the Russian war crimes of abducting young people … Read more
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
Tuesday, 18 November 2025 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm Wardlaw Museum, Learning Loft The Centre for Art and Politics (CAP) offered an unusual workshop in animation, dedicated to the legends of the seas. With invited stop-motion animation artist Viktoriia Ivanova, this event explored the seaside to collect stories and wake up the memories of other … Read more
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
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
Path to Insurrection is a visual journey by award winning, street photographer Chris Suspect, whose work follows the destabilising political situation in the U.S. that culminated in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on 6 January 2021. Based in Washington, D.C., Suspect witnessed the many events and more than four years of protest that transformed … Read more
Anna Torres and Michael Alpert Horizons Blosom 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 will read from her latest book Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature, in a conversation with Dr Jeffrey Stevenson Murer, … Read more
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
2024 marks 10 years since the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine. In recognition of this dark anniversary, join us for a programme of cultural events that reflect on Ukraine’s cultural and environmental heritage and celebrate its activist cultures. The programme is kindly supported by the Centre for Global (Post-)socialisms and the Centre for Art and … Read more
Dr Anna Elena Torres will 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 professor at the University of Chicago … Read more