When: Wednesday 15 November, 7.30-8.30PM
Where: Primary, 33 Seely Road, Nottingham, NG7 1NU
Booking: Free, limited spaces available. Please book here.
Join Jade and Roo’s Slow Reading Group where we read together, out loud and slowly, and discuss topics such as care, reciprocity, complaint, community, and culture. Our reading material will be taken from texts and books that inspired the making of Roo’s exhibition, Courses for Dis-Course(s), currently showing at Primary and previously presented at GLOAM.
During our sessions, we will be reading Stuart Hall’s 1991 essay ‘Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities’, excerpts by Sara Ahmed from Living a Feminist Life, Complaint!, and The Promise of Happiness, as well as Jasleen Kaur’s Be like Teflon. No specialized knowledge or expertise is required for slow reading, just an interest in reading with others.
We will provide copies of the texts on the day of the event.
Courtesy of Roo Dhissou, Image by Sancha.
In Courses for Dis-Course(s), artist Roo Dhissou conjures up a space, for dining, eating, cooking and gathering that manifest in a sort of kitchen, dining room, café, restaurant, chill space. The project includes a series of exhibitions and dining events for British South Asian artists that will take place at GLOAM in Sheffield and Primary in Nottingham. Roo wants to explore who gets a seat at the table, the politics of orthodoxies, the art space, the home, the kitchen and the gallery by presenting a new body of sculptural, functional and architectural works that employ a variety of British Asian visual languages, culinary traditions and materiality.
Langar Thalis inlaid with gut health tips, Cha stations, posh tea sets, Manjis, Rugs, Yoga Mats, seed charts, tablecloths embroidered with political and theoretical texts, as well as Spotify playlists made during the course of the project will fill the spaces. Questioning how hosting through conviviality, cooking, eating together and conversation can create complex spaces for complaint, lament, bonding, stickiness, nuance, and the opportunity to be both comfortable and discomforted in our differences, similarities and oppositions.
Courses for Dis-course(s) is a programme created by Roo Dhissou in partnership with GLOAM and part of Primary’s Nourishment programme, a long-term project that delves into food justice, nourishment, growing and sustainable food systems. Together along with the artist, GLOAM and Primary are working on a new form of artist-institution relationships that nurture equity and reciprocity. This project is supported by Arts Council England.
Artist Bio:
Roo Dhissou is an artist and doctoral researcher who works with communities, diasporas and her own histories. Using socially engaged practice, craft, cooking, performance and installation she explores how communal and individual identities are formed.
Access:
This event will take place in our Reading Room and ground floor gallery space which has full level access from our new main entrance on Seely Road.
Please email admin@weareprimary.org or call 0115 924 4493 with any access inquiries.