community art – François Matarasso

The function and purposes of art

A few days ago, I happened to see a media article from a senior cultural figure in which they wrote

Over past year or two, I’ve had a series of conversations with people about books they’ve been working on. Some

In January 2021, for the first time in my life, I wrote a long, detailed outline for a community art

I have a lot of conversations with, or about, young artists—people rather new to participatory work, even if they have

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

Last night, in an effort to arrest a rapidly-rising Covid-19 infection rate, France returned to a strict lockdown. Until at

When I began working in community arts, at the beginning of the 1980s, I was taught to consider the risks

‘This week, faith leaders, unions and others called for 2020 to be the “decade of reconciliation and reconnection”. Creating cultural

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

You see them sometimes, late at night, cleaning offices for people they never meet; or unloading vans from empty bus