Work with the ‘invisible materials‘
Through the integration of the aesthetic and the political, an imaginative space is created in which we can engage with the re-shaping and transforming of our lives and our society, and explore ways to develop a more humane, participatory and ecologically viable society.
This expanded workspace where we work with “the invisible materials” available to us all – “speech, discussion, thought” [Beuys], “values, attitudes, questions and habits of thinking” [Sacks] – where the personal and social imagination moves and weaves, is a creative workspace accessible to all.
Social Sculpture Arenas and the ‘connective practice’ processes enables an experience of this creative agency as an individual and a collective.
Copyright Shelley Sacks, Exchange Values.
In 2018, 22 years after the first forum in UK [1996], Exchange Values on the Table was at the Frans Hals Museum, Netherlands for 6 months. The image shows one of 18 social sculpture organised processes and assemblies in the Exchange Values ‘social sculpture arena’ when Exchange Values on the Table was part of an international exhibition in the Frans Hals Museum/De Hallen about the global food trade and colonialism.
