About this Event
TECHNO, RESISTANCE & CULTURE - Provocations, Lessons and Challenges from Detroit's underground.
CONVERSATION + DJ SET + FILM SCREENING In response to Bahar Noorizadeh's The Debtor's Portal.
đź“… 31 MARCH 2026
⏰ 18:30 - 20:30
đź“Ť Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, Perth Road Dundee.
Overview
Initiated and programmed by Cooper Gallery's Student Curatorial Team, you are invited to step into an evening that traces the pulse of techno back to its radical roots. Join us at Cooper Gallery for an electrifying evening exploring the radical history and global influence of Detroit techno. Featuring a session between SCT member Claire Marion Black in conversation with LUX LUCIS DJ, this event unpacks how underground sound became a force of resistance, imagination, and cultural transformation.
Following the conversation, a live set by LUX LUCIS DJ and special guest VENDITRON will transform Cooper Gallery into a pseudo-nightclub -stripped back and bass forward-sonically exploring samples from Berlin and Detroit's underground techno culture.
We are delighted and proud to announce that this event will be supported by and broadcast live on JAM radio, Dundee's own Independent University Radio station.
Follow JAM and listen along live at https://www.mixcloud.com/jamradio/
Line Up
• In-Conversation on the politics, pedagogy and lineage of techno
• DJ set tracing Detroit’s sonic club culture
• A film screening of Bahar Noorizadeh’s Free to Choose, probing debt, speculative futures, and collective possibility.
FREE and open to all. Book your tickets for calendar reminders and event updates.
Refreshments will be provided.
We will be operating a voluntary donation-based payment system on the night in support of the speakers participating.
About the exhibition
, is the largest solo exhibition to date in the UK by Iranian-Canadian artist, writer and filmmaker Bahar Noorizadeh, co-curated with The Otolith Collective and Interrogates the entangled relationships between art, capitalism, imagination and collective futures.
Access
Cooper Gallery is located to the right side of the DJCAD buildings on Perth Road. The entrance is via double doors which face onto a car park.
The gallery is on two floors. First floor has ramped access and disabled toilet.
Second floor is accessible via lift and for wheelchair access via a stairclimber. The exhibition and performance is on both the first and second floor of the gallery.
Please email in advance if you require lift or stairclimber access.
First floor is also accessible via 24 steps. Two flights of 12 steps with handrails are separated by a landing.
Exhibition videos are subtitled and captioned in English. Seating is provided and/or additional seating available, please ask an invigilator.
For all enquiries please email: [email protected]
Toilets
The ground floor has a wheelchair accessible toilet. The toilet is gender neutral.
Interpretation
Large print versions of the exhibition information handout are available, please ask our Guides. If you require alternative formats for material in exhibitions please email or ask our Guides.
Funding support
The Debtor's Portal exhibition is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland and with the kind support of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Centenary Trust. The Otolith Collective is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Cooper Gallery, 13 Perth Road, Dundee, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
