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Trusting the process, again
In January 2021, for the first time in my life, I wrote a long, detailed outline for a community art workshop. It was the first session in new project I’d entitled ‘Wish You Were Here’ and it was also my first attempt at doing creative work online. I was living on a mountain in rural…
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Learning the right lessons
Ten days ago, at home in France, I watched a live stream of a performance happening in Portugal. Nós. Vocês. Toda a gente. (Us. You Guys. Everyone.) was the first sight of the opera being co-created by inmates and staff at Leiria Youth Prison, with their families and the professional musicians and educators of SAMP. People…
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Using digital technology in co-creation workshops
The clue’s in the name: participatory art happens when people get to participate. The closure of cinemas, theatres and music venues is a very visible effect of the pandemic. The suspension of community art and co-creation workshops has received little attention, but it has affected many of the most vulnerable people in society. For some,…
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‘Wish You Were Here’ – coming summer 2021
There’s no moment quite like this. So much of community art is in the journey, the being-together, listening, learning and discovering—and all that is full of wonders too, but it is made meaningful when art comes into being from that shared process: its product, validation and marker. Art that goes out into the world, to…
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Going on about ethics
In the past 20 years, as participation has come in from the margins, both the artworld and academia have written a lot about art practice with people. I’ve read little of that steadily-accumulating library, partly due to barriers of access, cost and language, but also because it rarely nourishes my thinking. Some of it is…
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François Matarasso 