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Author: François Matarasso

I'm a community artist, writer and researcher, working in Europe. My latest book, 'A Restless Art' (London 2019), is about the history, theory and practice of participatory art.
1 January 2021 For itself / Thinking

Because I am involved in humankind

A little over 30 years ago—in May 1989 to be exact—the Communist authorities in Hungary began to dismantle the barbed

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22 November 2020 This changes everything

Silence

We know each other but there is nobody here to translate for us. We’ve talked before. Now we pretend to

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10 November 2020 Essays / Experiences / Research / Thinking

Reflecting on culture and development

For the past 18 month or so, I have been working with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

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30 October 2020 Community arts / Regular Marvels / Thinking / This changes everything

Art and love

Last night, in an effort to arrest a rapidly-rising Covid-19 infection rate, France returned to a strict lockdown. Until at

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15 October 2020 Thinking

How the internet saved a community opera

It began with open workshops in community halls across County Durham, from ancient places sheltered in mountain valleys to younger

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13 October 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

Let’s create a thousand little Works Progress Administrations

Why not to set aside 1%, 5% even 10% of the new cash to get artists – the people who create the work but who were ineligible for the Cultural Recovery Fund – working again? What’s to prevent each organisation in receipt of new funding from setting up their own Works Progress Administration to help the creative workforce?

7 October 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

9 Fables of the Reconstruction

The existential crisis now facing artists, performers, technicians, educators and many other freelance workers in the cultural industries has been

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6 October 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

8 Where to now?

This post is the last of a series of conversations I held with Arlene Goldbard about public employment programmes and

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5 October 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

7 What made public service employment successful – or not?

This post is part of a series of conversations I held with Arlene Goldbard about public employment programmes and the

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4 October 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

6 The UK in the 1980s: MSC and the Community Programme

This post is part of a series of conversations I held with Arlene Goldbard about public employment programmes and the

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François Matarasso

François Matarasso

I'm a community artist, writer and researcher, working in Europe. My latest book, 'A Restless Art' (London 2019), is about the history, theory and practice of participatory art.

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