Dash Macdonald
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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
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.
Ward, Matt; Loizeau, Jimmy; Macdonald, Dash and Auger, James. 2019. Alternative Friends. In: "Reconstrained Futures @ BIO26, 26th Biennial of Design", Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Mortimer, Nicholas; Macdonald, Dash and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2019. Protesteroo. In: "Protesteroo", Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom, March - May 2019.
Conference or Workshop Item
Mortimer, Nicholas; Macdonald, Dash and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2024. 'Birdie Danse Macabre'. In: Birdie Danse Macabre. IASPIS, Sweden 3 February 2024.
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.
Mortimer, Nicholas; Macdonald, Dash and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2019. 'Autohoodening'. In: Autohoodening. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom May - December 2019.
Book Section
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
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.
Mortimer, Nicholas; Macdonald, Dash and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2022. Slade Green Goes Marching On!. In: "Slade Green Goes Marching On!", Slade Green, United Kingdom, April 2022 - June 2023.
Mortimer, Nicholas; Macdonald, Dash and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2021. Autohoodening: The Rise of Captain Swing. In: "Autohoodening: The Rise of Captain Swing", Lulea Arts and Crafts International Bienalle, Sweden, October 2022 - January 2023.
Project
Mortimer, Nicholas; Macdonald, Dash and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2018 - Present Post Workers Theatre.