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3 April 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

Call home

Do you know Bill Forsyth’s film Local Hero? It dates from 1983 and centres on a remote Scottish community whose

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8 November 2015 Thinking

The parliament of invisible people

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

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22 July 2014 Thinking

‘When will I be loved?’

I’ve been made blue, I’ve been lied to When will I be loved? I’ve been turned down, I’ve been pushed

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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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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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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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4 November 2013 Thinking

Truth, lies and drawing ink

Documentary filmmakers have an obvious problem with everything that happened before the invention of photography. How do you make a

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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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27 July 2013 Thinking

A culture of received ideas

Last night was the opening of Bill Ming’s exhibition at New Art Exchange in Nottingham, his first substantial solo show

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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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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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