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Community engagement
Edited by Catherine Wilson, Community engagement explores the myriad ways artists can engage with specific communities via residencies, collaborations, cross-cultural projects and research. Alongside Wilson's introductory text are interviews with artists Gayle Chong Kwan, Guyan Porter, Mauricio Dias and Walter Riedweg, Rachel Grant and David Blandy.
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a-n Collections September 2008
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Central Asian Project
Kathy Rae Huffan describes Central Asian Project, a programme of residencies and cultural exchange between artists from the UK and Kazakhstan that took place between 2006-08. Read on…
Publication in html, a-n Collections September 2008
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. Read on…
Publication in html, a-n Collections September 2008
Dias & Riedweg: Border zones and poetic encounters
Catherine Wilson addresses three collaborative projects by Rio de Janeiro-based Mauricio Dias and Walter Riedweg who develop works with communities and social groups often on the edges of mainstream society. Read on…
Publication in html, a-n Collections September 2008
Gayle Chong Kwan: Underground exchanges
Charles Danby explores how Gayle Chong Kwan developed avenues of exchange centred on relationships with food through a community-based residency facilitated by Platform for Art. Read on…
Publication in html, a-n Collections September 2008
Guyan Porter residency
Kai-Oi Jay Yung speaks to Guyan Porter about his residency at Chandrasevana Creation Centre in Sri Lanka. Read on…
Publication in html, a-n Collections September 2008
Rachel Grant and Stoke-on-Trent
Charlie Levine on Rachel Grants' relationship to her home town and how she explored notions of community following an award from Longhouse, an organisation in the West Midlands that supports research projects by artists focusing mainly on the public realm. Read on…
Publication in html, a-n Collections September 2008
Risking Radio Nights
Rachel Lois Clapham discusses David Blandy's Artangel commissioned project Radio Nights that aimed to uncover aspects of nocturnal London that would otherwise be invisible to regular city dwellers. Read on…
Publication in html, a-n Collections September 2008
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