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Category: Essays

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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23 May 2020 Essays / Thinking / This changes everything

My good companions

At midnight on 27 March 2020, Bob Dylan (or his office) used Twitter to announce the release of a song

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10 June 2017 Essays / Thinking

Georgina Barney – An Artist on Farming

Georgina Barney is captivated by farming, in theory, art and practice. Today she publishes GB Farming: An Island Journey, a book

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5 September 2016 Essays / Talks

Making nothing happen: art and civil society in troubled times

This is the text of a talk given on 3 September 2016 in Berlin at an event to mark the fifth

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3 March 2016 Essays / Thinking

Both Sides of the Coin

Both Sides of the Coin: The Distinctive Value of Art in Health Care A text commissioned by artsandhealth.ie, an Irish arts

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24 April 2014 Essays

Whose line is it, anyway?

One lovely evening this summer, I stood waiting in the lobby of the Market Theatre in the Herefordshire town of

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5 January 2014 Essays / Thinking

Friendly Interest

For much of the British media, 2014 began with a panic about the opening of the UK’s borders to people

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18 November 2013 Essays / Evaluation

Quality in community art (MCV7)

The McMaster Review Fashions sometimes change quickly in the arts, and in arts policy too. In July 2007, the then

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28 June 2013 Essays

Late flowering

Art and wellbeing in old age [This is the English text of a chapter I contributed to a book on

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31 January 2013 Essays

‘All in this together’

The de-politicisation of community art in Britain, 1970-2011 The term ‘community art’ came into use in Britain at the beginning

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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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