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Can Art Change the World?

The Cultural Frontline: where arts and news collide.

As this year鈥檚 Turner Prize exhibition prepares to open its doors, The Cultural Frontline considers how international artists are using their work to provoke discussion and challenge existing ideas.

Activist artists Tania Bruguera and Maria Alyokhina reflect on how actions and performance can make an impact where work in a gallery can鈥檛.

Also in the programme, Ghanaian artist Serge Attukwei Clottey discusses his work highlighting the detrimental impact of the yellow cans used to store water all over Africa, curator Cheryl Haines explains the impact of Ai Wei Wei鈥檚 installation At Large which occupied Alcatraz last year and Palestinian artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme reveal how their work replaces clich茅d images of their region with complex film and sound tapestries.

With Tina Daheley.

(Photo: works by Ai Wei Wei displayed on Alcatraz Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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Sun 25 Sep 2016 04:32GMT

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  • Sat 24 Sep 2016 08:32GMT
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  • Sun 25 Sep 2016 04:32GMT

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