The Centre for Art and Politics
Enhancing Contributions to Cultural Understanding
On Tuesday, October 13, the Centre hosted Lenka Lichtenberg to perform songs from her award winning albums Thieves of Dreams and Silent Tears: the Last Yiddish Tango and other songs written during the Holocaust. Silent Tears: the Last Yiddish Tango is a concert program based on testimonies of women from Poland who survived the Holocaust. … Read more
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
10-25 September 2026, open Wednesdays-Sundays, 12:00-17:00Generator Projects, Dundee, 25/26 Mid Wynd Industrial Estate, Dundee, DD1 4JG The Centre for Contemporary Art and the Centre of Art & Politics and are thrilled to host Everything for Everybody. This exhibit unites works by contemporary artists exploring the politics and practices of archiving – Katya Buchatska, Lia Dostlieva, … Read more
On the 11th of May 2026, GloPost and the Centre for Art and Politics were delighted to host a roundtable which brought together Ieva Gudaitytė (University of Oslo), Di Yehorova (Independent Scholar), Vlada Vazheyevskyy, and Kateryna Volochniuk (St Andrews) for a critical conversation on modes of knowledge transfer and the limits of representation when engaging with … Read more
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