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
Category: Ethics
‘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
What is the point?
Community artists are often accused of instrumentalising art. We can be said to instrumentalise something when we use it to
The restless purposes of community art
‘In the Netherlands, community art is predominantly result-oriented, whereas, until recently, in English-speaking countries the focus was on participation and
An unspoken contract
‘For me It’s an inquiry into an aspect of life that I don’t know about [that] I’m curious about it.
