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27 February 2021 For itself / Talks

Mohan Rana: Cartographer of the Space Between

A few months ago, I had a call from Mohan Rana. His calls tend to come out of the blue:

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14 February 2021 Thinking / This changes everything

Rehearsals for retirement

The days grow longer for smaller prizes I feel a stranger to all surprises You can have them I don’t

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10 February 2021 Thinking / This changes everything

Notes for What Next UK

Here are the notes I prepared to speak at this morning’s meeting of What’s Next UK Preliminary No criticism: this

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2 February 2021 This changes everything

Rehearsing and performing co-created music remotely: Can you help?

The lockdowns and physical distancing measures introduced to contain the spread of Covid 19 have had a devastating impact on

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30 January 2021 Thinking / This changes everything

Into the digital world: Pandemic Responses #2

In March 2020, unable to use their theatres, concert halls, galleries and museums, cultural organisations went online like a buffalo stampede. The mood in those early days seemed to be excited and febrile, characteristic of how people respond in a crisis.

24 January 2021 Thinking / This changes everything

How arts and cultural institutions have responded to the pandemic #1

Surviving to do what? The Covid 19 pandemic and the public health measures imposed to limit infections have been devastating

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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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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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