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Engaged practice
Socially-engaged is a term for an approach to visual arts practice where people and social or environmental contexts and artists' artistic and aesthetic concerns are brought together for mutual examination, exchange and experimentation.
Contexts include include education, healthcare, community programmes and business.
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Features
All the fun of the fair
Organised by artists in east London,'Roman Road Revel' was a village fête with a difference. Lucy Wilson reports on this and other artists-led projects that appropriate traditional community fairs and festivals. Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine September 2003
Artists Don't Bite
Art at the Centre is an award scheme from Arts Council England, South East that seeks to involve artists from the outset of regeneration projects across the region. As part of this scheme, Maidstone Borough Council looked to develop an Artists' Quarter in the heart of the town to promote the area's wealth of creative talent. Here video-media artist Margherita Gramegna and consultants FrancisKnight talk about their involvement in this process and the resulting work, Artists Don't Bite. Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine December 2008
Battle of Orgreave
Contemporary re-enactment, art event or memorial? David Butler gives an insider account of Jeremy Deller's ambitious Artangel Times commission. Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine September 2001
Space campaigns and living work
Lars Bang Larsen's discussion of visual art extends beyond new sites and contexts to ask questions of how art meets the idealogical spaces of politics and mass media – and how behaviour has become aesthetic. Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine March 2003
Taking control
Lucy Wilson talks to Anna Best about her unconventional Year of the Artist residency working with staff at a-n The Artists Information Company. Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine September 2001
The Whitworth Social
Andrea Hawkins, Head of Public Engagement at Manchester's Whitworth Art Gallery and artist Lucienne Cole talk about an innovative approach to publicly-engaged art. Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine February 2009
To give is to receive
Becky Shaw describes how she negotiated the difference between the expectations of her work and the reality of her practice when she received a prestigious international art prize. Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine March 2003
What business are you in?
Lucy Kimbell explores some of the ways that artists are immersing themselves in business culture. Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine January 2002
You're such a lovely audience
Abigail Reynolds talks to two artists who "negotiate the treacherous waters" of audience participation in event-based work. Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine September 2001
Artist's toolkits
The artist's fees toolkit
This toolkit takes artists step-by-step through a process to calculate an individual daily rate and prepare quotes for freelance work. Read on…
Artist's toolkit, a-n.co.uk December 2004
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