Restless Research: Confessions of a Confused Community Art Scholar
If you’ve read some of the material published on this site, I hope you’ll understand why I describe participatory
Category: Ethics
On volunteering: who gets paid (cont.)
A few days ago, I wrote a post about who does, could or should get paid for their time in
Who gets paid – and why?
Like a lot of freelance artists, what I get paid ranges from a lot to nothing, according to the commissioner’s
‘‘I didn’t realise I had so much to say until we began this conversation.’
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Between light and dark
People are standing on the wooded slopes of Dotrščina park, their faces turned up towards the late September sunshine. Some
Need to know – the artist’s privacy
The last post, which asked what an artist needs to know about the people they’re working with, drew lots of
‘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
Art outside the art world
In A Native Hill (1968) the American poet Wendell Berry writes about his decision to root his art where he
In unstable times, we need a restless art.
Why describe participation as a ‘restless’ art? My original reason was simply that the practice of professional artists involving others in
Men & Girls Dance – Successful risk-taking in participatory art
‘That’s a bad idea.’ It was months ago and I don’t remember now who told me about a proposed dance project
