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Tag: Scotland

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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13 September 2014 Experiences / Research

The Pinning Stones

Portraits from The Pinning Stones by Ray Smith On Thursday, the residents of Scotland decide whether to leave the United Kingdom

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18 March 2014 Thinking

Cui bloody bono?

The speech of women There is a paradox, acknowledged by the speaker herself, in a woman giving a lecture about

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6 October 2013 Experiences / Thinking

An artist out of time

I was driving home through the Scottish Borders—like Debatable Lands everywhere, this lovely region is used to strangers—when I passed

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10 June 2013 Thinking

Art’s liberating deniability

Monk: An intellectual ventriloquist: that’s an oxymoron. Nina: What’s an oxymoron? Monk: Well if you don’t know, why did I

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1 November 2012 Thinking

Dementia Friendly Arts

Dementia seems to be replacing cancer as the unmentionable disease. Until quite recently, people were reluctant even to use the

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23 January 2012 Research

Stories and Fables: Culture in Orkney

Download the report Stories and Fables – Culture in Orkney 2012 Orkney is an archipelago set in the wild seas of the

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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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