How can academics and artists work together to offer new perspectives on urgent contemporary issues?
Arts in Society is a partnership between Somerset House Studios and King’s College London which pairs Studios residents with King’s researchers. As artists team up with academics, the collaborations aim to bring new perspectives on urgent contemporary social issues. Over the course of 2017, six Studios residents researched subjects as diverse as sexual consent, migration, the politics of black queer sound, and food porn, which will inform the work being developed in residence at Somerset House.
Studios recipients of the 2017 awards are: Burton Nitta; Deborah Pearson; Evan Ifekoya; Imran Perretta; Phoebe Davies and Makerversity member Anne Frobeen.
The culmination of these collaborations can be seen in a series of short films.
Migrant Agency and the Moving Image
Imran Perretta, Dr. Leonie Ansems de Vries and Signe Sofie Hansen explore the ongoing “refugee crisis”, through a three week research trip to the recently dissolved camps of Calais and Dunkirk.