Agnes Denes and Artists on The Frontline: A Panel on Art's Role in Community Healing

Part of Artists on the Frontline - Global Artists Response Fund Launch, Anna Somers Cocks, Founder Editor, The Art Newspaper, chairs this panel to highlight artists working on the frontlines of the current crisis and discuss how the pandemic might change the art-world systems and values of the past decades.

I am talking with Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, Co-Founder, UK Black Pride; and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Director, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin. 

This talk, as well as all of those from Healing Arts London week can be found on The Art Newspaper YouTube channel.

The panel also marks the launch of several projects being supported by The Future is Unwritten Artists Response Fund - the panel of which I sit on - including in Iraq, in partnership with Community Jameel, documenting and sustaining traditional cultural practices to address mental health needs among the Yazidi and Marsh Arab communities, and on the Navajo Nation in Arizona.

At the close of the week’s events, Agnes Denes’s flag, The Future is Fragile, Handle with Care, will be raised on the masthead above Tate Britain to commemorate the launch of The Future is Unwritten Artists’ Response Fund.