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Category: For itself

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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9 July 2020 For itself / Thinking

Memory becomes history.

Can there be anything left to say about the Shoah? Surely every story has been heard, every angle covered, every

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5 July 2020 For itself / Thinking

Glacial advances

The dreadful killing of George Floyd has further consciousness of Black Lives Matter as an idea, a movement and an

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7 June 2020 For itself / Thinking / This changes everything

Thinking about white privilege

My father, Robert, was born in Salonica (Thessaloniki, in Northern Greece) in 1927. His father, Isaac, was a doctor, while

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8 May 2020 For itself / Thinking

Talking Until Nightfall

‘I have confidence in life, which I love. I have confidence in my own body, far more intelligent than us

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27 April 2020 For itself / This changes everything

Worn-out shoes

In the autumn of 1945, in the broken months after the end of the Second World War, Natalia Ginzburg was

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31 March 2020 For itself / Thinking / This changes everything

Invisible city

The window in front of my desk looks onto a bank with a hedge of hazel, ash and hawthorn. At

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14 March 2020 For itself / Thinking

This changes everything

Sometimes, change is extraordinarily sudden. The first case of coronavirus appeared in China on 19 November 2019. It reached Italy

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7 February 2020 For itself / Thinking

The continuing validity of community development

In preparation for a visit to meet Northern Heartlands in County Durham, I’ve been reading about their community projects and artists’ residencies,

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31 January 2020 For itself / Thinking

My European home

What a sad day. Not just for me, but for millions of people across this complicated continent – British people who

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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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