Collaboration, Community, and Public Work

Print Out is an annual, student-led event, coinciding with the summer degree show. This year’s edition focuses on artworks produced or shared outside traditional studio and gallery contexts, and particularly those practices that engage with or occur within the broader community.

RCA Print invites artists and collectives Anna Barham, Peter Liversidge, Yara + Davina, and Donna Travis and Wayne Crichlow of Future Hackney, to each discuss a particular project in relation to the theme. Relevant to print’s roots in public flows of information, newspapers, banners, signage, these artists intercept communication formats as a way of representing and engaging communities. This event will consider the importance of shared public narratives sited within community contexts, as well as public participation in the production of the work, itself.

Further discussion will explore the experience and necessity of alternative practices for artists against the background of Covid working conditions. In a pandemic world, the traditional viewing format of the gallery has become precarious and the importance of interaction in the local and everyday has become more apparent.

Presentation and discussion will be followed by audience Q&A.