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Category: Where do you stand?

May 15, 2022 Reflexive practice / Where do you stand?

Friendship and the community artist

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

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November 28, 2021 A Restless Art / First Generation / Second generation / Third generation / Visual art / Where do you stand?

Safari park lions

BBC Radio has just broadcast a programme entitled ‘Everyone is an Artist’. It’s part of Archive on 4, a series

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November 21, 2021 A Restless Art / Ethics / Reflexive practice / Where do you stand?

What do you expect?

Many professional artists believe that working with non-professionals leads to an unavoidable decline in quality. That conviction is so integral

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September 5, 2021 Intentions / Ireland / Opera / Reflexive practice / Third generation / Where do you stand?

The difference between a professional and a non-professional artist – Part 3

In the previous post, I outlined a range of resources that professional artists can draw on in their work, including

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September 4, 2021 Intentions / Ireland / Professional artists / Where do you stand?

The difference between a professional and a non-professional artist – Part 2

What does ‘professional’ mean? Like many words, professional has changed its meaning over the course of history, adapting itself to society’s evolving

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September 11, 2020 Where do you stand?

Speak your truth

It’s unusual nowadays to hear anyone in the arts speak against cultural participation. The directors of museums, galleries, orchestras and theatres –

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July 15, 2020 A Restless Art / Ethics / social change / Where do you stand?

Art for social change – or social justice?

In 1990s Britain the term community art began to be replaced by participatory arts, which many people hoped didn’t carry ‘the baggage of

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June 2, 2020 Where do you stand?

Witnessing as resistance

Community art performance by Olho.Te, (Madeira) In A Restless Art I describe participatory art – the vast field that has spread from

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June 1, 2020 A Restless Art / First Generation / Reflexive practice / Where do you stand?

The Roots of War: Continuing a conversation with Arlene Goldbard

A couple of weeks ago, I published a text on the ethics of participatory art by Arlene Goldbard on A

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November 5, 2019 A Restless Art / Ethics / Where do you stand?

Instrumentalisation: a convenient mask

For as long as I can remember, the accusation of instrumentalising art has been flung at community artists, as a

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