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Dash Macdonald

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Dash Macdonald

Position

Senior Lecturer in Design

Department

Design

Email

D.Macdonald (@gold.ac.uk)

Dash is an artist and educator who works collaboratively, exploring the process of making as a mode of politic

Dash is a founding member of Post Workers Theatre, an artist collective formed in 2018 with Nicholas Mortimer and Demitrios Kargotis. PWT study and update historic workers’ theatre and forms of creative resistance to address inequalities in the contemporary labour market and wider society. Through collective writing, performing, costume and stage production, the collective sets up opportunities for workers and communities to discuss and challenge their conditions and imagine them otherwise.

Since 2008 Dash has worked with Demitrios Kargotis in the design action group Dash N’ Dem. Their wide ranging participatory projects use co-creation and collective enquiry as a public forum to discuss social injustice and present alternatives to dominant narratives. DN’D exhibit and produce public commissions internationally, working across diverse media and modes of communication to discuss critical questions with communities in an open and accessible way.

Academic qualifications

  • MA Design Products, Royal College of Art 2008

Teaching and supervision

Publications and research outputs

Show/Exhibition

  • Animal Guising and the Kentish Hooden Horse Mortimer, Nicholas ; Macdonald, Dash ; and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2023. Animal Guising and the Kentish Hooden Horse. In: "Animal Guising and the Kentish Hooden Horse", Maidstone Museum, United Kingdom, 8 February - 17 June 2023.
  • Alternative Friends Ward, Matt ; Loizeau, Jimmy ; Macdonald, Dash ; and Auger, James. 2019. Alternative Friends. In: "Reconstrained Futures @ BIO26, 26th Biennial of Design", Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  • Protesteroo Mortimer, Nicholas ; Macdonald, Dash ; and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2019. Protesteroo. In: "Protesteroo", Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom, March - May 2019.

Conference or Workshop Item

  • Birdie Danse Macabre Mortimer, Nicholas ; Macdonald, Dash ; and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2024. 'Birdie Danse Macabre'. In: Birdie Danse Macabre. IASPIS, Sweden 3 February 2024.
  • Shadow Monsters of Modernity Mortimer, Nicholas ; Macdonald, Dash ; and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2022. 'Shadow Monsters of Modernity'. In: Shadow Monsters of Modernity. Arts Academy, University of Split, Croatia 24-26 November 2022.
  • Autohoodening Mortimer, Nicholas ; Macdonald, Dash ; and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2019. 'Autohoodening'. In: Autohoodening. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom May - December 2019.

Book Section

  • What is Autohoodening? Frost, James; Kargotis, Demitrios; Macdonald, Dash ; and Mortimer, Nicholas . 2023. What is Autohoodening? In: James Frost, ed. Animal Guising and the Kentish Hooden Horse. Birchington: Ozaru Books, pp. 71-79. ISBN 9781915174062

Performance

  • Bexley Responder: A Living Newspaper Mortimer, Nicholas ; Macdonald, Dash ; and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2025. Bexley Responder: A Living Newspaper. In: "Bexley Responder: A Living Newspaper", Bexley Broadway Shopping Centre, United Kingdom, August - December 2025.
  • The Ballad of Renoviction Mortimer, Nicholas ; Macdonald, Dash ; Kargotis, Demitrios; and Dalhqvist, Sebastian. 2024. The Ballad of Renoviction. In: "The Ballad of Renoviction", Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus, Sweden, 14 September 2024.
  • Rave of the Ritualesque Mortimer, Nicholas ; Macdonald, Dash ; and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2023. Rave of the Ritualesque. In: "Rave of the Ritualesque: Hospitalityscape", Klub Kotac, Croatia, 22-27 May 2023.

Project