The Future is Social (symposium)

The Future Is Social Symposium addressed recent debates about the politics, aesthetics and quality of contemporary art made through collaboration and participation. Interrogating the core conditions of socially-engaged arts practice this symposium addressed the dynamics of social sculpture, authorship, the gift economy and the nature and status of the document. Speakers included Paul Goodwin, Zoë Shearman, Viv Reiss and David Cross.

This event concluded the two-week experimental residency between artist Sonia Boyce and post-graduate students across Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges of Art (University of the Arts London) and also featured films and performances made during this residency.

Sonia Boyce emerged as an artist in the 1980s as one of the key figures in the burgeoning black British art scene. Since the 1990s she has been bringing people together to make improvised artworks.

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