"A lot of people at the Kimberly Hotel would say 'This isn’t art, it’s rubbish,' and I’d say more people have probably looked at Kendell Geers’ broken windows than have looked at most artworks in South Africa. Many people who were walking by YOUNG BLACKMAN at night would stop and look in. Many of them must have thought 'that must mean something…this must be meaningful in some way.' It may have gotten a lot of people angry, but a lot of people engaged with it."
– Matthew Blackman

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.