Photography – A Restless Art

‘Have I got to go somewhere?’

‘Care in the Community’ was a flagship policy of the third Thatcher government at the end of the 1980s. It

Participatory art projects can fail for the same reasons that all projects. The bigger causes – inexperience, incompetence, lack of imagination,

Participatory art is normally spoken about in terms of how people are changed by being involved. There are problems (at

Bealtaine must be one of the happiest arts festivals I know. Founded in 1995, it involves thousands of older people

Is participatory art essentially about artists creating work from the raw material of other people’s life experience? That seems to

Integrate life and work and friendship. Don’t tie yourself to institutions. Live cheaply and you’ll remain free. And then, do

Two or three years ago, I began to hear about some of the participatory arts projects happening in Portugal and