Reflexive practice – Thinking about participatory art

What’s in a name?

When I began thinking about this project, several years ago, I was determined to avoid the marshlands of jargon. Participatory

‘What are our motives? How do we make sure this isn’t just about us as artists and what we want?

When we met on Friday morning, there was a cheerful determination to get on with what was still to be

Well. Today was a challenging day. First of all, I had to dance, or at least move in roughly the

The last post was about trusting the process. I didn’t expect things to happen so quickly, but a morning’s work

This is often the trickiest stage of a workshop – somewhere towards the end of the first half. The novelty

The Cabbage Field is part of a former barracks in Šančiai, a suburb of Kaunas (Lithuania). The site was established by

Neither community arts practice nor its results are always good. Most art is, by definition, average—and that is good enough.

Jussi Lehtonen, Finnish National Theatre Introduction The Finnish National Theatre in Helsinki is involved in a range of work with

At a conference in Sydney last week, I was able to catch up a little on current thinking in arts