ViS
Collaborations between artists, and between artists and the public are now commonplace. Our group looks critically at collaborative practices and unpacks terms such as collaboration, participation, and ‘the public sphere’.
Who are we? A group of artists who work in the public arena. The group was formed in 2008. We meet in Central London, although the group includes members from other parts of the country.
What do we do? We discuss work by writers from different disciplines, e.g. Miwon Kwon and Gilles Deleuze, and invite speakers to the group: in 2010 Dave Beech, Martin Wooster and Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre gave talks to ViS.
Experimental, performative and group activities are a regular part of our meetings, as is discussion and development of each person’s work.
Group members have worked together on projects beyond the group: for example, in 2010 two of us took part in the Latin American Cultural Week, organised and curated by another member.
We have made links with other groups through networking events, such as the OVADA and ARTWASH initiative to bring together artist groups from the South East.
[...] VIS (Visual into Social) is a group of artists who work in the public arena, and run their own programme of informal talks by artists and writers. I was invited to come to talk to them about my work, in particular about my current practice-based research on the artist as a neighbour. [...]