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  • 4. Spotting ethical challenges

    Welcome to Arlene Goldbard’s virtual residency on ‘A Restless Art’, in which she shares her ideas about the values and ethics of participatory arts practice. Between 18 and 22 May 2020, Arlene is publishing guest posts from a text she prepared for artists and students, Each one is short, practical and grounded, drawing on practice…

  • 3. What are your values and commitments?

    Welcome to Arlene Goldbard’s virtual residency on ‘A Restless Art’, in which she shares her ideas about the values and ethics of participatory arts practice. Between 18 and 22 May 2020, Arlene is publishing guest posts from a text she prepared for artists and students, Each one is short, practical and grounded, drawing on practice…

  • 2. Self-knowledge: who are you and what do you want?

    Welcome to Arlene Goldbard’s virtual residency on ‘A Restless Art’, in which she shares her ideas about the values and ethics of participatory arts practice. Between 18 and 22 May 2020, Arlene is publishing guest posts from a text she prepared for artists and students, Each one is short, practical and grounded, drawing on practice…

  • 1. Values and Ethics of Participatory Arts Practice

    Welcome to Arlene Goldbard’s virtual residency on ‘A Restless Art’, in which she will share her thinking about the values and ethics of participatory arts practice. Between 18 and 22 May 2020, she’ll publish guest posts from a short text she prepared for artists and students, Each one is short, practical and grounded, drawing on…

  • A virtual residency by Arlene Goldbard

    Arlene Goldbard is an artist and activist who has dedicated her life to social justice and cultural democracy in the USA. She has written important books on community art and taught widely on the subject. A co-founder of the (entirely unofficial) US Department of Art and Culture, she acted as its Chief Policy Wonk for…

  • The privatisation of risk

    When I began working in community arts, at the beginning of the 1980s, I was taught to consider the risks of using chemicals, fireworks and sharp tools, and to do so safely. As my experience grew, I understood the more subtle and less easily-managed human risks to which people might expose themselves by taking part,…