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
Tag: ways of knowing
Owning your language
This week has been spent at arts conferences and training days in different parts of the country. Each was rich
A match in the darkness
‘A satisfactory philosophy of ignorance’ I’d never heard of Richard Feynman when I picked up a book of his in
Art across borders
Migranland It is in the nature of artistic work to reach beyond the boundaries of language, culture and context. You
On the value of not putting things into words
It’s uncomfortable for a writer to admit, but sometimes words fail us. They seem to have done so both before
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
What has art ever done for science?
There’s a good post under this title at the Wellcome Trust blog—thanks Chris Fremantle—describing some of the ways that art
Regular Marvels, in Theory (RMT)
Originally posted on Regular Marvels:
One reason for creating Regular Marvels is to look for better ways of writing about people’s experience…
‘There’s no insurance against life’
Dementia has become the fate worse than death that haunts the imagination of Western societies. It is the price we
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
François Matarasso 