practice – François Matarasso

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

‘We all began with the best of intentions, and then ran slap into reality. Very quickly, it was evident that

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

It was my younger son, who’s a digital native, who persuaded me it was a bad idea. I’d been watching

‘I don’t care if you call my work journalism or art or whatever; whatever you want to call it is

For much of the British media, 2014 began with a panic about the opening of the UK’s borders to people

The McMaster Review Fashions sometimes change quickly in the arts, and in arts policy too. In July 2007, the then

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

Mik Godley, the artist with whom I worked on Winter Fires, is threatened with redundancy from his part-time teaching post

The de-politicisation of community art in Britain, 1970-2011 The term ‘community art’ came into use in Britain at the beginning