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6 January 2015 Experiences

Power, promises and participatory arts

Circuit is a four year programme, led by Tate and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, that aims to connect young people

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29 September 2014 Experiences / Talks

Another Angle of Vision

The last days of September in Orkney: weather fine and sunlit mirrors in Scapa Flow and Hoy Sound. The sky

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8 August 2014 Thinking

The darkness, in this twittering world

The revolution in information and communication technology has given us 24 hour news, social networking and instant access to the

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28 July 2014 Experiences / Thinking

Great art everywhere

A baking July afternoon in Lincolnshire. Everything feels flattened under the heat: sheep, crops, fields. The houses I pass are

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28 May 2014 For itself

On the value of not putting things into words

It’s uncomfortable for a writer to admit, but sometimes words fail us. They seem to have done so both before

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21 April 2014 Experiences / Thinking

Remembering not to forget

Forgotten empire The almost complete absence of imperialism and particularly of colonialism from British public discourse has always struck me

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17 April 2014 Thinking

Status anxiety

This is an anxious time for the 700-odd organisations who get regular funding from Arts Council England, and for those who

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2 March 2014 Thinking

Naked emperors

‘I want to change, but not if it means changing,’ a patient once said to me in complete innocence. This

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28 February 2014 Experiences / Thinking

Streetwise in Seville

There was a spontaneous peal of applause in the Teatro Central at the end of this film yesterday, where I

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26 February 2014 Experiences

Artists did this

At Seville Cathedral today,  my breath was taken away by the power of a building designed, made and decorated by

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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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