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Community engagement
HTML version of Community engagement in which Catherine Wilson explores the myriad ways artists can engage with specific communities via residencies, collaborations, cross-cultural projects and research.
A term that pervades contemporary art discourse is ‘context.’ Artists and arts practitioners negotiate their way in a professional and interdisciplinary domain of knowledge that is intensely cognisant of the consequences of geographic, cultural, political and social loci on both representations and methodologies of engagement with individuals, communities and societies. Context not only provides the frame of reference that informs artistic collaboration or intervention, but may equally be the very subject of investigation and concern. Despite being beleaguered in the past by ideas of the artist as an alternative remedy of social problems, the multi-faceted area of collaborative practice that is ‘engaged with communities’ is being identified as a cogent territory for renegotiation. Comprising six new commissioned articles, this a-n Collections reviews a selection of diverse artist-led and commissioned projects, all characterised by forms of collaboration with communities or social groups, and undertaken by UK-based and international artists over the past ten years. Four of the projects have occurred since 2006. In contrast to simplistic clichés that have...
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