Stephen Willats: Concerning Our Present Way Of Living

English conceptual artist Stephen Willats (b.1943) pioneered socially interactive and community engaged art in the 1960s and 70s. This archive display focuses on his exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1979 and includes Sorting Out Other People’s Lives (1978), a work made with residents of the Ocean housing estate in Tower Hamlets in which Willats explores the intersection between community and home life through recordings and photographs.

The exhibition is the first to revisit Willats’ socially engaged projects and includes material from the artist’s own archive and documents from the Whitechapel Gallery, alongside works from Tate, The Museum of London and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art.