François Matarasso

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  • Innocence and experience: John Fox’s songs

    Regular readers (thank you for your interest) will know my admiration and affection for John Fox, Sue Gill and the extended family of Welfare State International. Their work caught my imagination 40 years ago, and remains a source of inspiration, perhaps because of its differences with my own. If you haven’t come across them, you…

  • Blinkered by my privilege

    For decades, longer even, cultural policy in Europe has been imagined as a conflict between two ideas. The first is that everyone should have access to the greatest achievements of art and culture. The second agrees, but says that everyone should also be able to contribute to culture’s creation and evolution. In the language of…

  • Some thoughts on podcasting

    In January, I began an experiment in podcasting, following an invitation from Owen Kelly and Sophie Hope, who host an excellent and varied podcast under the banner Meanwhile In An Abandoned Warehouse (no, I don’t know either, but it’s a nicely evocative name). They’d interviewed Arlene Goldbard, an American artist-activist and good friend of mine in a…

  • Safari park lions

    BBC Radio has just broadcast a programme entitled ‘Everyone is an Artist’. It’s part of Archive on 4, a series that uses the BBC’s unparalleled historic recordings to reflect on the past and how we see it today. This episode, presented by Cambridge University art historian James Fox and inspired by a Turner Prize shortlist…

  • What do you expect?

    Many professional artists believe that working with non-professionals leads to an unavoidable decline in quality. That conviction is so integral to how they think about art that they don’t always realise that they do hold it. I’ve known people who would deny it absolutely, who’d be offended at the very suggestion, and yet who work…

  • A Culture of Possibility Podcast #11: Meeting the Moment with Jan Cohen-Cruz and Rad Pereira 

    A guest post from Arlene Goldbard This post is to introduce you to the 11th episode of François Matarasso’s and my monthly podcast, “A Culture of Possibility.” It will be available on 19 November 2021. You can find it and all episodes at iTunes along with miaaw.net’s other podcasts by Owen Kelly, Sophie Hope, and many guests, focusing…