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Generator Projects (est. 1996) is a non-profit, artist-led gallery and project space in Dundee, Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿☀️
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We’re very excited to announce our long-awaited 30th Birthday Programme 🥳

#1996 brings a week of workshops and events towards a continually evolving exhibition, drawing on our three decades of archive.

In light of the recent blows to the Scottish Arts sector, developing our 30th Birthday programme has given us space to reflect on labour, institutional memory and the precarious running of an artist-run initiative.

Whether you’re new to Generator or ex-committee, friend of Generator or long-time visitor - we’d love to see you on any day of the week!

A detailed programme overview will follow shortly … Keep your eyes peeled 👀 let’s take this as an opportunity to come together and uplift artist-run organisations taken in Generator Projects by @generatorprojects

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Yesterday the UK Supreme Court handed down a ruling that has stated that sex is assigned at birth and immutable, regardless of reality exemplified by the widely documented lived experiences of trans and intersex people. This ruling is meant to excludes trans women from both recognition and protection under the law as women, and can be broadly applied to all transgender individuals. This is the latest in a series of moves to rapidly and efficiently erode the legally enshrined safety and validity of trans peoples that has existed for the past 15 years. Even with the protections offered to us by the 2010 equality act we still experience violence on a personal and institutional level as a result of being trans.

Generator Projects staunchly rejects this interpretation of the law and vehemently condemns the judges that unanimously made this ruling, their choice to exclude any trans people from speaking as part of the case & for their of intense moral or philosophical bankruptcy. This ruling will come with a body count.

The nature of the law is to represent the all peoples.
But the voices of trans people, particularly trans women, have been absent from all major forms of this public discourse. Whilst a small group funded by immense amounts of private wealth have been given the privilege of being heard, so we urge all other cultural institutions to actively platform and give space to trans people.

The ‘trans debate’ echoes a pattern of history similar to the ‘Jewish question’ - this ambiguity over the rights of a group to exist can only end in the public and later private erasure of that group. So we state that trans women are women unequivocally and without question. We ask everyone who is part of the wider generator community to continue listen to and speak up for our trans colleagues across the UK.

Generator will remain a site that is inclusive of trans people in every facet of our policy, programming & community.

In solidarity,

Persephone Russell
Co-Chair of Operational Committee
On Behalf of Generator Projects by @generatorprojects

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a year ago

Generator are proud signatories of the PACBI pledge. We will not work with, accept funding from or spend money with any organisations with ties to Israeli institutions until Palestine is free. 🕊️🇵🇸

For more information see:
@artworkersforpalestinescotland
@bdsnationalcommittee

For more resources follow the link in our bio

Image description in altext. The image is a colored pencil drawing that features both a drawing of a dove and text. At the centre, a purple and green dove is depicted flying freely. The text, written in capital green letters, states "SCOTTISH CULTURE STANDS UNITED, WE ENDORSE THE CALL FROM PACBI." The word "PACBI" appears in the center in large red letters. Below this, additional text in smaller green letters reads "THE PALESTINIAN CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL." The background is multicoloured and represents movement and the sky. The drawing conveys a sense of artisanal craftsmanship and is a declaration of support for a specified political cause. by @generatorprojects

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2 years ago

We’ve got your Friday Night sorted! Come join us from 6-10pm on Friday 9th October for a night of performances and engaging discussion from past committee members and friends of Generator.

The night will start with a panel discussion with past committee members to chat about their personal experience with Generator and how these inform the future of our beloved ARI ❤️‍🔥

Following this, there will be another panel discussion … with a twist … It’s a performance transcript that we stumbled upon in our archive. It’s clever, it’s quippy - don’t miss this one!

The night does not stop there - we have a plethora performance art done from @lewiscavinue, @dancingpegg, @moroccanstylechicken, @luisalcada_person and Mark Urban to finish Friday evening.

Can’t wait to catch youse there 😘

Our Birthday Week Schedule 🎈

One more event to announce … 🤩 taken in Generator Projects by @generatorprojects

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Our archive has been overflowing with excess posters and handouts for years, so we thought we’d do something about it! We’ve teamed up with the wonderful artist Matt Ledger (@mattpopppp) for an evening of collage transformation; turning the old into something new.

Drop in any time between 4pm - 9pm on Thursday 8th October and join us in getting little cuttings of paper all over the floor and glue on your fingers ✂️🖍️ You’ll also be welcome to pilfer as many of our excess posters as you like for your bedroom wall.

Free, all materials provided.
All ages welcome, but children must be accompanied by an adult.

See you there! x

Our Birthday Week Schedule 🎈

More birthday events to be announced very soon… 😉 taken in Generator Projects by @generatorprojects

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3-4pm: Workshop Begins, led by @lauramcsorley
4-5pm: Space for making at your own pace
5-6pm: Presentation Begins: Starting your own Initiatives with @elizabethannday, Q+A at the end
(Feel free to arrive in time for the workshop, or arrive at 5pm for just the presentation)

The Party as Radical Social Engagement
As part of Generator Projects’ 30th anniversary celebrations, this workshop reflects on the archive as a starting point for thinking critically about the party as a political form of community and exchange. Drawing on documentation of past Generator parties and gatherings, we will talk about what happens when artists make spaces for people to come together. What kinds of relationships, communities and forms of exchange can emerge through collective celebration?

How does the party disrupt everyday structures, create alternative forms of participation, and make space for pleasure, experimentation and collective agency? The disco ball will act as a point of departure for these discussions, a symbol of nightlife and celebration, we will use it as thinking object through which ideas of visibility, reflection, spectatorship, collectiveness and shared experience could be traced. The sparkle and fragmented reflections of a disco ball offer a way of thinking about the party not as a one-off event, but as a constellation of encounters, bodies and histories. Participants are invited to embellish small objects with mirror tile and shiny gems to create their own reflective objects. This process of making will sit alongside discussion of the archive, considering how objects can hold social histories, how celebration can function as a form of cultural practice, and how the traces of past gatherings might inform the ways we come together now. The workshop is an opportunity to look backwards through Generator’s archive while asking what the party might still make possible: as a space of connection, resistance, collective imagination and radical social engagement.

Our Birthday Week Schedule 🎈

More birthday events to be announced very soon … 😉 taken in Generator Projects by @generatorprojects

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3 days ago

NEXT UP FOR OUR 30TH BIRTHDAY WEEK: AN ARCHIVAL SNOOP! 🌟

Ever wondered what’s hiding in the Generator archive? Join us on Tuesday 6th of October, 6-9pm for a chance to explore three decades worth of Generator history through a curated selection of archive material.

It will be chance to have a rummage and discover some of the stories behind Generator - who knows what you’ll find 📚 If you’ve got your own memories, photos or materials from the past 30 years, we warmly invite you to bring them along and share them to our archive!

Come and have a snoop 🤓

Our Birthday Week Schedule 🎈

More birthday events to be announced very soon... 😉 taken in Generator Projects by @generatorprojects

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🎂 ANNOUNCING OUR FIRST EVENT FOR OUR 30TH BIRTHDAY! 🎉

We’re kicking off birthday week with a relaxed preview of our 30th birthday exhibition on Monday 5 October, 6–9pm.

Come along, have a wander and get a first look at the exhibition before the rest of our bustling birthday week gets underway 👀

See youse there x

Our Birthday Week Schedule 🎈

More birthday events to be announced very soon… 😉 taken in Generator Projects by @generatorprojects

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Tomorrow, Friday 25 September, artist Adrian Pepe will discuss his practice and the work he made for Everything for Everybody @generatorprojects with @gerschultzj and @monotown for our closing event, 14:00-16:00. All welcome!

Adrian Pepe is a Honduran fibre artist based in Lebanon. His artistic practice is an ongoing investigation into process and material. Through his work, he interweaves nature and culture to create objects as tools to enable an open discourse on materiality, our morphing cultural landscape, and the present condition. Pepe’s work is rooted in textiles, spanning site-specific installations to durational performances. By directly engaging with the sentient providers of raw materials — whether plant or animal — Pepe forges relational ties that manifest in objects and events imbued with artistry, sweat, perspiration, mythology, and symbolism; transforming acts of making into speculative, embodied rituals that test and extend our understanding of material agency, ecological intimacy, and the poetics of labor.

Supported by the St Andrews Centre for Art and Politics, the St Andrews Centre for Contemporary Art, and the Centre for Global (Post)socialisms, Southeast, Central, and East European Studies.

All images courtesy and copyright Adrian Pepe. taken in Generator Projects by @generatorprojects

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JOIN THE ASSOCIATES

The associate committee is an exciting opportunity for artists and anyone interested in what we do at Generator Projects to get involved! You can learn and gain experience in exhibition-making, help out with installing exciting new artworks, and assist in our archive. As well as this, we have paid opportunities for tasks such as invigilation and postering, and run associate-exclusive events for you to meet other creatively-inclined folks and have fun. It’s free, doesn’t require any regular time commitment, and no experience in art or arts organising is needed either. Just fill out our associates membership form linked on our website!

GARDEN FURNITURE PAINT PARTY

⭐Associates⭐ Come and help us revamp our outdoor space! We will be hosting an event on Saturday 26th September from 1pm, for everyone to come along and paint our garden furniture🌸. This will be a fun, relaxed opportunity to meet new people, get creative and make some new designs of your choosing that will be displayed outside our exhibition space🌈. This exclusive event is free to attend as long as you’re signed up to be an associate via our membership form. No booking required, just show up (and bring some old clothes if you can!). See you there ✨ taken in Generator Projects by @generatorprojects

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We are excited to announce the closing event of Everything for Everybody with fibre artist @adrian_pepe, who will be in conversation with collaborator Dr Jessica Gerschultz and Professor Victoria Donovan from the curatorial team. Friday 25 September 2026, 14:00-16:00 @generatorprojects - all welcome.

This conversation event will explore Adrian’s practice, including the work he made for the first iteration of Everything for Everybody @dniproccc entitled Unfolding the Body.

Adrian Pepe is a Honduran fiber artist based in Lebanon. His artistic practice is an ongoing investigation into process and material. Through his work, he interweaves nature and culture to create objects as tools to enable an open discourse on materiality, our morphing cultural landscape, and the present condition. Pepe’s work is rooted in textiles, spanning site-specific installations to durational performances. By directly engaging with the sentient providers of raw materials — whether plant or animal — Pepe forges relational ties that manifest in objects and events imbued with artistry, sweat, perspiration, mythology, and symbolism; transforming acts of making into speculative, embodied rituals that test and extend our understanding of material agency, ecological intimacy, and the poetics of labor.

Jessica Gerschultz is a Lecturer of Contemporary Art History (Asia, Middle East, North Africa) in the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews. Her research examines modern and contemporary fiber art, artistic engagement with craft-based mediums, and feminist art histories. She was an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow for the writing of her book Decorative Arts of the Tunisian École: Fabrications of Modernism, Gender, and Power (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019). Her current project Fiber Art Constellations traces artistic exchanges across the Arab world, Africa, and Eastern Europe, particularly Poland, to offer a feminist history of 20th century tapestry.

Supported by the St Andrews Centre for Art and Politics, the St Andrews Centre for Contemporary Art, and the Centre for Global (Post)socialisms, Southeast, Central, and East European Studies. taken in Generator Projects by @generatorprojects

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Final Hour Log – Handala
⏰Sunday 27 September 2026, 12-3.30pm
📍Generator Projects, Dundee

⛵Witness the last hour of the humanitarian vessel Handala, before interception by Israel in international waters on July 26, 2025.

This is a free-entry, drop in screening of one film from the evening Gaza Transmits programme, showing on a loop. Drop in throughout the afternoon.

👋🪡 📚It’s also a relaxed opportunity to meet local organisers, take part in our collective embroidery project, sewing in solidarity with Palestinian health-workers, and take some time out to read zines, books and other texts relating to Palestinian history and resistance.

🎬About the film by @firas.shehade

Final Hour Log – Handala reconstructs the last hour of the humanitarian vessel Handala, launched by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) and named after the iconic figure created by Palestinian artist Naji al-Ali in the late 1960s. Handala, a barefoot refugee child with his back turned to the viewer, symbolizes Palestinian resistance, exile, and the right of return.

The vessel was intercepted by the Israeli navy in international waters on July 26, 2025. It was sailing to break Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza, imposed since 2007. The crew faced surveillance, electronic jamming, intimidation, forcible boarding, and abduction.

Composed primarily of livestreamed footage, the film documents a civilian act of solidarity and defiance, preserving what was meant to be erased. An act of witness and rupture against the enforced silence, an act to break the siege on Gaza.

🙌 Thank you to @generatorprojects and @dundeechangemakers for making this event possible.

➡️Generator Projects is just off Perth Road at Mid Wynd Industrial Estate.

📺Gaza Transmits is part of @falastinfilmfest in Dundee & North East Fife from 24-27 September. Celebrate Palestinian cinema and culture in a programme of films, talks, workshops and performance co-curated by @artsworkersforpalestinedundee. taken in Generator Projects by @generatorprojects

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