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Take A Part are delighted to present the fourth biennial symposium Social Making: Socially Engaged Practice Now and Next – Grounding and Spatial Justice , taking place on 21st and 22nd of July 2022 at Arts University Plymouth.
Social Making aims to bring together artists, curators, community members, commissioners, policy makers, audiences, researchers and anyone with an interest in social practice in the arts. For Take A Part, social practice is collaborative and puts people at the heart of the artwork, and it is this spirit that we bring to our symposium. Each iteration of the symposium has been different but we always strive to move to a more active engagement with our delegates rather than the traditional conference experienc
In the wake of the pandemic, Brexit, climate breakdown, armed conflict, and of rising far-right nationalism, we consider the state of ‘groundlessness’ and its effects on social practice. In artist Hito Steyerl’s 2011 essay In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective, she discusses the present moment’s prevailing condition as a state of groundlessness. Foundational political and economic beliefs and systems have been thrown up in the air, leaving little, if any, stable ground. Throughout Socia
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