Anne Peaker Memorial Lecture
Tomorrow evening at the Young Vic Theatre in London, I will give the 10th Annual Anne Peaker Memorial lecture, on
Category: Visual art
‘Here we found a space to think’
When I argued – as I still do – that people benefit from participating in art, it is because of its potential for learning, emancipation and empowerment. Experience changes us. Powerful experiences, such as those that come from creating art with other people, can change us deeply. But that change is something we do for ourselves: it is not done to us
Work in progress
In the heart of midwinter, people in Kaunas shared their community opera as a work in progress, a 40 minute celebration of
A brief observation on aerosols
Sometimes you miss the obvious thing, even when you’ve been looking at it for years. Yesterday, as I walked along
‘It’s given us permission to play, to take part, to engage.’
‘A Fun Palace is not a fete. It’s not about coming along and having a lovely time. It’s not audience
‘Just our imagination’
Bridget Lambert has spent the summer painting a tribute to Dolores O’Riordan with children in rural Limerick. The singer, who
The complexities of socially-engaged art practice
‘What are our motives? How do we make sure this isn’t just about us as artists and what we want?
Curtain
When we met on Friday morning, there was a cheerful determination to get on with what was still to be
Things get tough
Well. Today was a challenging day. First of all, I had to dance, or at least move in roughly the
Finding our voice
The last post was about trusting the process. I didn’t expect things to happen so quickly, but a morning’s work
