Can art really make a difference?

Thursday, 5 April 2018 - 6:00pm to 6:30pm

That's the question Joanna Mendelssohn, former art critic and curator, asks as she contemplates Ai Weiwei's installation 'The Law of the Journey', a work that echoes and underscores the on-going global plight of refugees. This week on Communication Mixdown we follow Joanna as she traces the history of how some art forms and practices communicate with and about times of crisis and upheaval.