Rethinking Engagement Workshop

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Asante, Barby and Khalaf, Amal. 2021. 'Rethinking Engagement Workshop'. In: Doing the Work: Rethinking Engagement. Contemporary Arts Society, United Kingdom 6 July 2021. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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Official URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4gP3wsmbTY&list=P...

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A workshop and talk by Barby Asante and Serpentine Civic Projects Curator and Director of Programmes at Cubitt Gallery Amal Khalaf for arts professionals who work in gallery education and communities.

"The workshop focused on the practices and ethics of ‘engagement’ in art museums and galleries, and how anti-racist and decolonial approaches can be embedded in them. Questions for discussion included: How can an art museum’s public/audience/community ‘engagement’ practices be expanded to also account for its relationships with, for example, minoritised artists, external collaborators and its own staff? How can extractive or exploitative ‘engagement’ practices be reshaped and reconceived as equitable, co-productive and reciprocal? How can an ethics of care be embedded in ‘engagement’ practices? What does an anti-racist or decolonial approach to ‘engagement’ involve? How can approaches to ‘engagement’ expand beyond engagement with people, to engagement with issues, ethics and power relations?" (UAL Decolonising Institute and Contemporary Arts Society)

This workshop was co-convened by the UAL Decolonising Arts Institute and The Contemporary Arts Society.

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