Contemporary Art Practice Speakers Programme at DJCAD: Jo Longhurst

Join our friends at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) for an in-conversation event with We Contain Multitudes artist Jo Longhurst and Dan Brown, DCA’s new Head of Exhibitions, at the University of Dundee.

They will discuss Longhurst’s contribution to the exhibition within the context of her wider practice, with a particular focus on disability, lived experience, and the politics of how bodies—especially disabled and marginalised bodies—have been framed, controlled, and reclaimed.

Taking place at the D'Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre, University of Dundee.

Booking via Eventbrite: here

About the artist 

Jo Longhurst's multidisciplinary practice interrogates the politics of looking and being seen, gently probing how cultural ideas of Perfection shape personal and national identities.

Longhurst’s work explores the entangled relationships between human, animal, and ecological worlds. Her current project, Crip, centres on the resilient bindweed—an often-unwelcome wildflower—as a critical metaphor for examining cultural attitudes toward disability, care, and empathy, and for imagining more inclusive, sustainable, and equitable ways of living.

She has participated in numerous international exhibitions, including at Studio Voltaire, London; Kunsthaus Göttingen; Kelvin Hall Ballroom, Glasgow; Perth Concert Hall; Mostyn, Llandudno: Museum Folkwang, Essen; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich; Aperture, New York; Titanic Belfast; National Media Museum, Bradford; and dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel.