My current curatorial research centres on artists who seek active civic engagement and/or participation in the realisation of their work, and the diverse forms that these interventions take. I am currently researching the work of Platform, Critical Art Ensemble, David Sherry, Hewitt & Jordon, Josh On, the exhibition ‘Risk: Creative Action in Political Culture’ curated by Ele Carpenter, and the project Your Machines, coordinated by Simon Yuill. On a broader scale I aim, through my curatorial practice, to explore the potential for shifting the use of the word ‘community’ in relation to audiences and participants. While current funding structures, and indeed many institutions, immediately want to tie art practice beyond the gallery into a form of social responsibility and structured community engagement, I would like to explore how curators and artists might start to question and unravel how notions of ‘community’ (without the political and bureaucratic red tape) can be broadened.