A New Necessity. The First Tyne International.
"A New Necessity" sets out to examine the possibility and necessity for art to acknowledge its social meaning without being reduced to simple propaganda or Community Arts. The exhibition speculates on what the new agenda for artists, art and administrators could be. This speculation includes the process of exhibition making itself because too often the questions stop at how and why art is made without addressing how and why art is mediated through an exhibitions, even though is clear these are crucial determinants in our reading of artists' work.