Feeling at home
The democratic urgency of dialogue in a diverse world Notes for a speech at the Nordic Dialogues conference, in Oslo
Rummaging in the archives
This site began in the summer of 2015, as I started work on the book it was intended to support.
The invisible participants
This is quite something. The European Commission has developed a tool to monitor and assess the performance of ‘Cultural and
None of this is easy
A couple of days ago, I gave a lecture about art in criminal justice contexts. It’s not a field in
Anne Peaker Memorial Lecture
Tomorrow evening at the Young Vic Theatre in London, I will give the 10th Annual Anne Peaker Memorial lecture, on
Contemporary European dance and the Commons
Originally posted on ramsayburt:
I made this video for my keynote panel paper for Plenary I, Reservoirs of Movement: Common…
It’s Fun Palaces weekend
When I was a young and earnest community artist, I bridled at the word fun. The art we made wasn’t
Who are you writing for?
Reading yet another account of a community outreach project undertaken by an arts organisation, I could feel my heart sinking
‘Trans nature is diverse’ – a theatre project in Uruguay
Jussi Lehtonen, whose community work at the National Theatre of Finland features in A Restless Art, got in touch to
Looking back at Bath Arts Workshop
In the course of working on A Restless Art, I’ve met many people from what I think of as the
What participatory art does not need
After 50 years of creative invention and achievement, participatory art does not need discovering. It does not need the condescension
