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Bahar Noorizadeh: The Debtor’s Portal

Cooper Gallery invites you to The Debtor’s Portal, the largest solo exhibition to date in the UK by Iranian-Canadian artist, writer and filmmaker Bahar Noorizadeh, co-curated with The Otolith Collective.

Internationally recognised for a practice that fuses science fiction, political theory, experimental film, and collaborative performance, Noorizadeh examines the infrastructures of finance, urban life, and digital technology to open new imaginaries for collective and post-capitalist futures.

Interrogating the entangled relationships between art, capitalism, imagination and collective futures the exhibition revolves around two moving image installations. Teslaism: Economics at the End of the End of the Future (2022) revels in the aesthetics of a third-person musical racing game following an anxious CEO-DJ Elon Musk and his self-driving car/lover and life coach, as they speed toward a shareholder meeting in a post-gamified and hyper-financialised urban dystopia. Free to Choose (2023), a filmic opera narrated by the Nobel economist Milton Friedman, envisions the credit banking system as a time-travel machine set in future Hong Kong.

The events series, Weird Economies x Scotland co-curated with the artist, explores forms of agency in culture production and the changing models of being a creative practitioner in a world witnessing a resurgence of fascist capitalism.

Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 12–5pm.

Information published by Leisure and Culture Dundee.

Free.

Cooper Gallery

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