Who is changed by participatory art?
‘I think people with learning difficulties have had quite a bad deal in life and I think this is finally
A project about participatory art by François Matarasso
‘I think people with learning difficulties have had quite a bad deal in life and I think this is finally
More insights from the past: the London Community Video Archive is a fantastic showcase of the work being made in the
Community is such a complicated word because it points towards a profound yet contested aspect of human experience. Most people
‘Care in the Community’ was a flagship policy of the third Thatcher government at the end of the 1980s. It
Rural touring is not a participatory art, but it is participatory culture. Why the distinction? Because in rural touring participation
This text and its photographs are taken from ‘Where We Dream: West Bromwich Operatic Society and the Fine Art
‘We simply want to say we’re all human beings, and we really mean it, when we think: This could
Theatre changes people. Mostly, it does so in small ways by rearranging our mental furniture, hanging around for a bit
Almost imperceptibly participatory art is becoming an ordinary dimension of social programmes. It has happened quietly over two or three
Farnham is a handsome market town in Surrey, an ancient place with a castle, Roman roads and hill forts. It