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Continue reading →: Why are there so few books about community art?
There are very few books about community art in Britain, despite its 50 year history. The key texts are: 1978, Artists and People by Su Braden 1984, Community, Art and the State: Storming the Citadels by Owen Kelly 1995, Art with People, edited by Malcolm Dickson To them can be added two recent books:…
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Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on
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Continue reading →: Keep your eyes on the prize, hold onIn A Restless Art (the book, not the blog) I argue that participation has become normalised in cultural policy and the art world. I try to show how profound that change has been over the last 50 years, and to explain how it marks the closure of a rift in…
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Czech Republic, Ethics, Europe, France, Germany, Romania, Spain, Theatre, Third generation, Where do you stand?, Writing
Who gets paid – and why?
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Continue reading →: 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 resources, what I’ve been asked to do, and my own wish to do it. So my choices about what work to take on hover between interest and need, but at…
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Continue reading →: ‘‘I didn’t realise I had so much to say until we began this conversation.’
Click here to download this case study in English (PDF 22MB) Clique aqui para descarregar este caso de estudo em português (PDF 15MB) What do you see? I don’t remember now who told me about a proposed dance project involving men and girls, but I do remember my reaction: that’s…
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A Restless Art, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, Europe, France, Hungary, Norway, Research, Romania, Spain
Be SpectACTive!
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Continue reading →: Be SpectACTive!Be SpectACTive! describes itself as ‘a European project based on audience development, involving some of the most innovative European organizations working on active spectatorship in contemporary performing arts.’ The project includes theatres, festivals foundations, universities and research institutes in the Czech Republic, Croatia, France, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Spain and the UK.…
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Continue reading →: The complexities of socially-engaged art practice
‘What are our motives? How do we make sure this isn’t just about us as artists and what we want? When am I being a neighbour and when am I being an artist?’ Anna Francis Selling the post-industrial city Stoke-on-Trent is a federation of six English towns that grew up…
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Continue reading →: ‘Just watch, and listen, and take in their story.’
Don’t feel guilty. Don’t feel sorry. Don’t look away. Just watch, and listen, and take in their story. This Is Not For You Since its emergence as an artistic and political movement in the 1980s, disability arts has been concerned with recognition—the right of people to be seen, heard and…
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‘It’s not a fixed or ready-made thing’
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Continue reading →: ‘It’s not a fixed or ready-made thing’Multistory is a small art organisation based in Sandwell, an urban borough west of Birmingham that was once a cradle of the industrial revolution. Today it is a multicultural patchwork of towns, hardworking and proud but which also has substantial economic and social problems. Multistory was established in 2006, but…