Skip to content
A Restless Art

A Restless Art

How participation won, and why it matters

  • A Restless Art in 10 minutes
  • The book
    • Order a print copy
    • Download a digital copy
    • Welcome words
    • Acknowledgements
    • Photography credits
    • Bibliography
  • Case studies
    • Fun Palaces
    • The Portland Inn Project
      • O Portland Inn Projeto – Um caso de estudo de arte participativa
    • ‘Men & Girls Dance’, Fevered Sleep
      • ‘Men & Girls Dance’, Um caso de estudo de arte participativa
    • Movimento de Expressão Fotográfica
      • Movimento de Expressão Fotográfica – Um caso de estudo de arte participativa
    • ‘We’re here because we’re here’
      • ‘We’re here because we’re here’ – Um caso de estudo de arte participativa
    • ‘Bed’, Entelechy Arts
      • ‘Bed’, Entelechy Arts – Um caso de estudo de arte participativa
    • Welfare State International
      • Welfare State International – Um caso de estudo de arte participativa
    • Festival de Música de Setúbal
      • Festival de Música de Setúbal – um caso de estudo de arte participativa
  • Projects
    • ‘L’Ego do Meu Bairro’ Olho.te
    • Project links
    • The Cabbage Field Opera (Lithuania)
    • Valleys Kids (Wales)
    • ‘I am the Museum’ (Bosnia Herzegovina)
    • El Colegio del Cuerpo (Colombia)
    • Multistory (UK)
    • Restoke (UK)
    • Streetwise Opera
    • Toinen Koti (Finnish National Theatre)
    • Dotrščina Virtual Museum (Croatia)
    • Geração SOMA, Vo’Arte (Portugal)
    • A Bao A Qu (Spain)
    • The Lawnmowers Independent Theatre Company (UK)
    • Banlieues Bleues (France)
    • Mahatat for contemporary art (Egypt)
  • Resources
    • Community art in Britain
    • Community art in Ireland
    • Community art in Portugal
    • Community art in the Netherlands
    • Links
      • Arts education
      • Circus
      • Combined art
      • Dance
      • Literature
      • Music
      • Neighbourhood projects
      • Networks
      • New media
      • Other art forms
      • Theatre
      • Visual art
    • Reports and research
      • Guides and handbooks
      • Reflexive practice
      • Online journals
    • Community and participatory art beyond Europe
  • About
    • François Matarasso
    • Contact me
August 23, 2016 A Restless Art

What art does

Posted by François Matarasso

Young people's dance project from the Living Heritage programme in Bulgaria, 2004

•

(Oresh dance project from the Living Heritage programme, Bulgaria, 2004)

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook

Like this:

Like Loading...

Related

Post navigation

Previous Post

Time in participatory and community art

Next Post

The difference between teaching and learning: Participatory art and the skills agenda

Blogroll

  • Parliament of Dreams
  • Regular Marvels
My Tweets

Latest posts

  • Clinging on in a tsunami: the arts and mental health
  • Remote residencies: a paid opportunity for community artists in England
  • An open letter about community art
  • Making community art in a time of coronavirus
  • A satisfactory philosophy of ignorance

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 2,692 other followers

Blog Stats

  • 156,470 hits

I'm a community artist and writer based in the UK

Archives

Categories

Category Cloud

A Restless Art Book extracts Case studies Cultural democracy Dance Education England Ethics Europe Film First Generation Ideas Ireland Lithuania Music Opera Photography Portugal Projects Reflexive practice Research Scotland Second generation Spain Theatre Third generation Visual art Wales Where do you stand? Writing

Categories

  • A Restless Art
  • Applied art
  • Architecture
  • Art and older people
  • Art and young people
  • Art forms
  • Art in criminal justice
  • Arts and mental health
  • Book extracts
  • Bosnia Herzegovina
  • Case studies
  • Circus
  • Comics
  • Craft
  • Croatia
  • Cultural democracy
  • cultural diversity
  • Czech Republic
  • Dance
  • Democratisation of culture
  • Disability art
  • Education
  • Egypt
  • England
  • Ethics
  • Europe
  • Film
  • First Generation
  • France
  • Funding
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Guest contributions
  • History
  • Hungary
  • Ideas
  • India
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Lithuania
  • Malta
  • Morocco
  • Music
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Northern Ireland
  • Norway
  • Opera
  • Philippines
  • Photography
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Professional artists
  • Projects
  • Quotes
  • Reflexive practice
  • Research
  • Romania
  • Scotland
  • Second generation
  • Skills
  • social change
  • Sound art
  • Spain
  • Theatre
  • Third generation
  • Traditional art
  • Tunisia
  • Uruguay
  • USA
  • Visual art
  • Wales
  • Where do you stand?
  • Writing

Tags

Activism Arlene Goldbard artistic quality Art practice Arts and disability Arts and older people Arts Council England Art work with people Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation community Community art Community arts Community music Community theatre Cultural democracy Education ethics European cultural policy Fun Palaces memory Participatory art Portugal social change socially engaged practice Spain Theatre Theatre for social change The Lawnmowers young people

Blog Stats

  • 156,470 hits

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 2,692 other followers

Follow A Restless Art on WordPress.com
Blog at WordPress.com.
Cancel
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
%d bloggers like this: