Climate and Community Justice through Food with GramOunce
Made in the Middle
Courses for Dis-Course(s)The Podcast and Publication
Material Matters- Bloomberg New Contemporaries
- Manji, Charpai, Daybed x Greenwich & Docklands International Festival
Don’t play with your food - Jalebi Press
- Hospital Rooms x Sandwell CAMHS
- Rhythm with Osman Yousefzada Aftercare with Liverpool Biennial
- Comrades (Midlands) with Outside In x EXPLORERS project
2023 ++ - Courses for Dis-Course(s)
- Quisse of the Komagata Maru
- Khao, peyo, aish karo, but don’t hurt anyone’s heart
- Care Work ft Desi and Disabled
- But what if I gave myself an ounce of the care I show for others?
2022 ++ - DIY Disability
- (Astral Village) slooooowwwww with Sahjan Kooner
- Nangal Pend-ing/ DarkVillage.stl with Sahjan Kooner
- Daybed Charpai Manji Very Modern Stylish
- breathe, spirit and life 呼吸、靈魂與生命 with Katherine Ka Yi Liu
- Searching for Sangat with Artlicks
2019 - 2021 ++
Diva BLEEP!- Rankin x Water Aid
- at Niru Ratnam with Jan Agha
- Joya: arte + ecología / AiR
- As round as the Son with Sharonjit Sutton
Khadi with Bharti Parmar - Cold Comfort and Cultural Identity
- The Encyclopaedia of Cultural Dysphoria
- Nangal Khera
- Coordinates - curating beyond the crisis
- The Anthropology of the Self
- Cooking in Crisis
- Ghar
- The art world Birmingham as seen by Franny
- Panj Din
- Cha Wali
- Everything, Everywhere all at once
- Pittu Garam and other stories
About
©2024 Roo Dhissou and Jalebi Press. Please ask for permission when referencing my writing because it may contain original references to my PhD, or using my images as they may belong to one of my many photographer friends.
Courses for Dis-Course(s).
Primary, Nottingham - October 6th - December 9th 2023, Image credit Reece Straw.
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GLOAM, Sheffield, - 1st July - 29th July 2023, Image credit Sancha. Find out more here.
GLOAM, Sheffield, - 1st July - 29th July 2023, Image credit Sancha. Find out more here.
In Courses for Dis-Course(s), artist Roo Dhissou conjures up a space for dining, eating, cooking and gathering that manifests 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. The installation will be used by visitors and animated with additional public events. A publication and podcast were produced documenting conversations and other outcomes.
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.
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. The installation will be used by visitors and animated with additional public events. A publication and podcast were produced documenting conversations and other outcomes.
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.
Install images by Reece Straw