François Matarasso

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  • Remembering the 1980s

    The Museum of Unrest is the latest project of John Phillips who was one of the founders on Paddington Printshop, a pioneering community print facility set up in the 1970s as part of the first wave of the community arts movement. It’s a fascinating online and real-world project that continues the thinking of those early…

  • Learning from the past, again

    The publication of Talking Until Nightfall in 2020 made it easier for me to acknowledge how being the child of a Shoah survivor has influenced my thinking. In truth, my heritage and my work are inseparable. It is because of my father’s experience during the war, and how it shaped my own youth, that I…

  • A return to speaking

    This month I have two conference speeches to give. It will be the first time in more than two years that I’ve spoken in this way and I’m doing so with some ambivalence. I accepted both invitations because they seemed more important than my personal reservations. So this week, I will talk to people involved…

  • Introducing A Selfless Art: My New Creative Journey

    In a world that is changing fast, and in many ways for the worse, I feel the need to change too. Readers of this site will know that I have been fumbling for some time with new ideas about co-creation I’ve called ‘A Selfless Art’. I saw it as a companion to ‘A Restless Art’.…

  • New beginnings

    Autumn has always seemed a time of new beginnings for me, probably because of the coincidence of the start of the school year with my birthday. In France, it’s called la rentrée, the return or coming home even, as habitual duties are resumed after the long summer holidays. I like the sense of possibility offered…

  • What will survive of us

    Yesterday evening I sat in the village church for a concert of mostly Baroque music – Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi, Rameau among others, arranged for piano, ,trumpet and soprano. The composers had been contemporaries in their day, and sit together well, although their lives were different in many ways. It struck me that they are now…