Join GLOAM Gallery in Sheffield city centre for artist Roo Dhissou’s Courses for Dis-course(s) this July.
Courses for Dis-course(s) will be a space for dining, eating, cooking and gathering in the gallery. The project takes the form of a kitchen, dining room, cafe, restaurant and chill space. It includes a series of exhibitions and dinners for British South Asian artists in both Sheffield and Nottingham. Roo wants to explore who gets a seat at the table. The project looks into the politics of orthodoxies, the art space, the home, the kitchen and the gallery.
Roo presents new sculptural, functional and architectural works in the gallery. Together they use a variety of British Asian visual languages, culinary traditions and materials. Filling the space will be 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. Spotify playlists made during the course of the project.
The installation questions how hosting through conviviality, cooking, eating together and conversation can create complex spaces. Spaces for complaint, lament, bonding, stickiness, nuance. And the opportunity to be both comfortable and discomforted in our differences, similarities and oppositions.
As well as opening to visitors, the installation will come to life with public events. A publication and podcast will document conversations and other outcomes.
Courses for Dis-course(s) is created by Roo Dhissou in partnership with GLOAM and Primary in Nottingham. It's part of Primary’s Nourishment project on food justice, nourishment, growing and sustainable food systems. Curated by GLOAM co-director Victoria Emily Sharples.
Exhibition open Saturdays and Sundays, 12–4pm.
Public events:
Afternoon launch
1 July, 12–4pm – all welcome
This exhibition will also include a mix of public and closed events and activity.
British South Asian women and non-binary artists can also also to join in the dinners by 20 June – find out more.
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