Art with social purpose?

This week on CW, Jan Bowman argues against government interference in ‘homemade’ art, and the use of the arts to encourage active citizenship. In London theatre, Miriam Gillinson reviews Naomi Wallace’s And I and Silence, commissioned by Clean Break, which uses theatre to address issues to do with women in the criminal justice system. And Andrew Haydon reports from Berlin, on Verrücktes Blut, a German play uncharacteristically ‘about’ Turkish youth and multiculturalism.

Meanwhile, Fedrica Ancona reviews Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s and María Pagés’ dance piece Dunas at Sadler’s Wells, and Sarah Strang and Rosemary Amadi offer two different perspectives on the Wellcome Collection exhibition, Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life.

20 May 2011