The artist worked with Southwark Council’s Visual And Performing Arts (VAPA) Young Women’s Group to chart the nature of these relationships and the languages that have formed around these technologies. The exhibition comprised a series of films, choreographed in the gallery space as an installation: a set of dialogues featuring the young people in front of as well as behind the camera.
“I was particularly interested in the type of conversations that are generated amongst groups of young people. I wanted to explore their inter-connected micro-communities, and that boundary between the public and the private that is bridged online and through personal mobile phones. It’s fascinating to me that young people’s communities can reach geographically and culturally distant areas through the use of new technology, and how this can challenge traditional notions of the concept of ‘community’.” Sonia Boyce
Network was the fifth commissioned exhibition in Peckham Platform’s previous venue (then Peckham Space) on Peckham Square.
This video by Gordon Beswick documents the artist’s talk during which artist Sonia Boyce discussed Network with writer and critic Bonnie Greer, alongside members of Southwark Council’s Visual and Performing Arts Young Women’s Group.
