Social Engagement

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reflections on the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale

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

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

The provocative works of the Japanese collective Chim↑Pom

Cooperation and dissent in Koki Tanaka’s precarious tasks

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

The complicated idea of ‘home’

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

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

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

Bik Van der Pol: artists as undercover agents

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

How do artists respond to current events?