François Matarasso

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  • Let’s talk about money

    In the past ten days, I have visited two exceptional community art projects: ACERT in Tondela (Portugal) and Cork Community Art Link in Ireland. ACERT has been making art with people since the 1970s, and Art Link since the 1990s. They have much in common—visionary leadership, an original aesthetic, strong principles and committed local support.…

  • Now available: ‘Uma Arte Irrequieta’

    Download Uma Arte Irrequieta, Reflexões sobre o triunfo e importância da prática participativa It is not an accident that A Restless Art is appearing in two languages (and I hope others in due course). At a basic level, it is a commitment to recognising that a single language, even one with the beauty and suppleness…

  • Uma Arte Irequietta

    The Portuguese edition of A Restless Art will be published by the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian this week, with events in Porto (8 May) and Lisbon (9 May). The book has been translated with sensitivity and dedication by Isabel Lucena, who has brought her exceptional knowledge of participatory art in Portugal and the UK to the…

  • Searching for light in the participatory museum

    For the past three months, I’ve been following a Museums Association initiative called Partnerships with Purpose. It builds on 10 years of research and development work supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, from Whose Cake is it Anyway? (in 2011) to a programme called Our Museum (2012-2015). Partnerships with Purpose aims to turn the knowledge about working with communities…

  • Lying fallow

    Someone asked me yesterday what I was doing now that the book was finished. ‘Resting,’ I replied, and then, since we’d met in a work situation, I went on, ‘Resting my mind.’ It was an unconscious clarification, but an accurate one. Without intending or even realising it, I have let go of ideas that have…

  • ‘Cidade’, Terratreme

    The Portuguese edition of A Restless Art will be published on 9 May 2019, and we are making final corrections before the book goes to print. This edition includes six Portuguese projects not in the English edition: here is one of them. The late-20th century transformation in how culture is produced, distributed and valued opened new…