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Category: For itself

19 June 2022 Experiences / For itself / Thinking

Building with humanism

It has been a quiet joy to spend so much time in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s facilities in the past

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30 May 2022 For itself

What matters

“And then this: do not depend on the hope of results. […] You may have to face the fact that

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15 May 2022 Community arts / For itself / Thinking

Friendship and the community artist

When I talk about community art practice with younger or less experienced artists, I often warn against offering friendship to

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12 May 2022 For itself

Leaving the Tower of Babel

I wander through Twitter’s alleyways like a refugee from another land. It’s vivid, disorientating, and full of drama; shouting behind

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25 April 2022 For itself

If you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need

Elections simplify. The complex realities of millions of lives, events and forces are channelled into simple choices. In France that

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18 April 2022 For itself

Asking better questions

‘Why don’t you consider what the author is trying to do, instead of criticising him for not meeting your expectations?’

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6 April 2022 For itself / Old Words / Thinking

Let’s start by valuing what’s already there

Last night, Arlene Goldbard and I recorded the next episode of our blog, ‘A Culture of Possibility’. Our guest was Lucy Wright, an

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31 March 2022 For itself / Thinking

Time to leave? (I’m getting grumpy.)

After 40 years working in the cultural sector, I have reached the point of being all but unemployable, except perhaps

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27 March 2022 For itself / Thinking

Light in the darkness

Last Friday evening, in the Liceu audience in Barcelona, I listened to a single cellist play a mournful melody from

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13 March 2022 For itself

The story, not the storyteller

Yesterday, I wrote a short post on the physical effects of grief, only to set it aside. I’ve written little

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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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