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25 July 2015 Experiences

Dancing about migration

It’s been said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. I’ve never been convinced. Human beings are not

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22 March 2015 Experiences / Talks

Theatre and community

It’s been a while since I last added anything here, partly because I’ve been meeting artists whose work is supported

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20 January 2015 For itself / Thinking

A Masterclass in Participatory Art

I was thinking about you guys yesterday. I’ve been here three times before and I think I understand a little

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11 July 2014 Experiences / For itself

Art across borders

Migranland It is in the nature of artistic work to reach beyond the boundaries of language, culture and context. You

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7 February 2014 Asides / Thinking

Beyond control

 I want the heart, I want the soul, I want control right now Badlands (1978) Bruce Springsteen ‘Shackled and Drawn’ During

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12 January 2014 For itself

Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog after the War

One of the Internet’s delights is the chance of finding, and sharing, art. I’ve always loved the elegiac tone of Paul

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20 October 2013 Experiences / Thinking

Art, religion and meaning

Last night’s piano recital in a Sheffield church highlighted once again the permeable boundaries between art and religion. The performance—which

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4 August 2013 Experiences / Thinking

Life is precious, not safe

It’s a widely held idea that art is dangerous—or at least challenging. It threatens established thinking, especially the complacency of

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13 July 2013 Experiences / Thinking

A question of evaluation (MCV5)

It ain’t what you do it’s the way that you do it It had been a wonderful performance, the culmination

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3 July 2013 Thinking

Art’s alternative economies

It’s been hard to escape the Glastonbury Festival in the past couple of weeks and clearly many people had no

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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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