RADIO BALLADS
- Serpentine Civic Projects and K.Verlagis are delighted to present a new publication: Radio Ballads: New Songs for Change.
- The new book accompanies a presentation of the project at the 24th Triennale Milano International Exhibition (13 May – 9 November 2025).
In 2022, Serpentine and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham partnered to present Radio Ballads, an exhibition showcasing a ground-breaking project that embedded artists within core social care services and community settings across the borough. Over three years, four artists, Helen Cammock (Turner Prize winner 2019), Rory Pilgrim (Prix de Rome 2020), Ilona Sagar (Stanley Picker Fellow 2021, Saastamoinen Foundation 2022) and Sonia Boyce (Golden Lion Laureate at the Venice Biennale in 2022) worked with social workers, carers, organisers and communities to produce four new films and bodies of research, facilitated through the council’s New Town Culture programme. The pioneering, collaborative artworks shared stories about labour and care, exploring who cares for who, and in what way. Radio Ballads built on legacies of projects like the Artist Placement Group.
