
Rory Pilgrim, RAFTS, Barking and Dagenham Youth Dance, Production Still, 2021
Radio Ballads
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The special project curated by Serpentine takes its name from a very revolutionary series of eight radio plays broadcast on the BBC between 1957-64. Focusing on workers’ experiences and struggles through a combination of song, music, sound effects and the voices of communities, each ballad presented the life in the UK at a time of rapid growth and change. Building on this rich history, Radio Ballads aims at creating new contemporary ballads that, by examining a changing society, highlight how artistic collaboration can create spaces to reflect on, and process, experiences of mental health, domestic abuse, terminal illness, grief, care, healing, inequalities.
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The project is part of the 24th International Exhibition Inequalities.
Radio Ballads was curated and produced by Amal Khalaf, Elizabeth Graham and Layla Gatens. The exhibition at Triennale Milano is co-curated with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Natalia Grabowska and Damiano Gullì, curator for Contemporary Art and Public Program, Triennale Milano
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