Social Engagement

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A new GBP£1.8m scheme aims to support socially isolated people

16 OCT 18

The collaborative practice, led by Helen Walker and Harun Morrison, uses community networks and humour to tackle serious social issues

BY Ellen Mara De Wachter | 14 JUN 18

Post-Grenfell, mid-Windrush and pre-Brexit, a day-long forum in London invited artists and organizations to re-imagine the communities we live in

BY Isobel Harbison | 29 MAY 18

The award-winning dancer and choreographer reveals plans to fund a water-treatment facility in the Congolese city of Kisangani

BY Sean O'Toole | 23 NOV 16

A report from the residency and conference asking how art and artists should engage in places of political or economic instability

BY Chloe Stead | 06 OCT 16

A report from the culmination of Suzanne Lacy’s 18-month project at Brierfield Mill, Lancashire

BY Laura Robertson | 05 OCT 16

A report from the inaugural ‘Thinking at the Edge of the World’ conference, held on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard

BY Harry Thorne | 29 JUN 16

Reflections on the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale

BY Carson Chan | 17 JUN 16

How the crisis in Greece is prompting young Athens-based artists to find new spaces for communal reflection

BY James Bridle | 11 JUN 16

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

BY Sonja Hornung | 10 DEC 15

The provocative works of the Japanese collective Chim↑Pom

21 OCT 15

Cooperation and dissent in Koki Tanaka’s precarious tasks

BY Andrew Maerkle | 21 AUG 15

Sam Thorne discusses activism, collaboration and the uses of absurdity with Ahmet Öğüt

BY Sam Thorne | 21 AUG 15

The complicated idea of ‘home’

BY Dan Fox | 27 APR 15

How artists and photographers in Japan have responded to the disasters of 3 March 2011

BY Christy Lange | 22 SEP 14

Holly Bynoe, Charles Campbell, Amanda Coulson, John Cox, Annalee Davis and Caryl Ivrisse-Crochemar on the role of contemporary art in the Caribbean

BY Dan Fox | 20 MAR 14

For this regular series, artist Michaela Meise discusses her affinity to architect Ferdinand Kramer

BY Pablo Larios | 26 FEB 14

Bik Van der Pol: artists as undercover agents

BY Nick Aikens | 13 OCT 13

Film as social experiment, and learning how to communicate without speaking

BY Kirsty Bell | 11 JAN 13

How do artists respond to current events?

BY Lynne Tillman | 01 NOV 12