"YOUNG BLACKMAN began just as the financial crisis was happening. Ed [Young] has mentioned his irritation at the period of stagnation that happened after YOUNG BLACKMAN ended. I think this generation of artists and cultural workers needed their own financial crisis and that ended up being the pandemic."
– Khanya Mashabela 

Invited practitioners joined curator Khanya Mashabela in a roundtable conversation centred on artist-led project spaces and collaborative exhibition-making. The engagement formed part of Mashabela’s wider research project, Social, and took place in the Gallery during Common, extending the exhibition’s reflections on collective action and shared resources. Matthew Blackman and Ed Young (YOUNG BLACKMAN), Carol Khaas and Lebo Kekanna (FEDE), and Mitchell Gilbert Messina (Under Projects) contributed to the conversation.