Ideas – A Restless Art

Access ≠ Democracy

When I began in community art, the photocopier was new technology. In the printshop where I was an apprentice, we

An article by Emanuela Barbiroglio published in Horizon, The EU Research and Innovation Magazine,10 August 2022 A prison opera and digital

Early in 2020, Irish National Opera (INO) began work on an unusual community project—a new VR opera, co-created with people from three

TL;DR? No. In the 1980s, when the first generation of community artists had been around for long enough to feel

It was the end of a long day. We’d run out of time and the guards needed to get us

In the dusty hall of a disused prison workshop, 30 people shuffle into a big circle. Silence falls. They draw

“And then this: do not depend on the hope of results. […] You may have to face the fact that

Evaluation has become a dominant preoccupation in participatory art in the past generation. It’s a fascinating field, and I’ve played

When I talk about community art practice with younger or less experienced artists, I often warn against offering friendship to

In the new episode of ‘A Culture of Possibility’, Arlene and I spoke with two old friends, David Slater and