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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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24 March 2014 Evaluation

The value of everyday evaluation

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

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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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25 February 2014 Thinking

Why I don’t tweet

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

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29 January 2014 Experiences / Research

How to be an artist

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

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5 January 2014 Essays / Thinking

Friendly Interest

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

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18 November 2013 Essays / Evaluation

Quality in community art (MCV7)

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

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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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21 May 2013 Asides / Thinking

Artists teaching art

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

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31 January 2013 Essays

‘All in this together’

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

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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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