Co-creation as if people mattered
A Restless Art describes the history, theory and practice of community art. Published in 2019, the book is free to download, along with case studies and other resources.
A Selfless Art is a companion to that book, a rebalancing, more personal and reflective; it is in its early stages.
Elsewhere on this site you can find the books in the Regular Marvels series, reports, essays, and other writing. There are also documents on the early history of the community arts movement.
My other work includes a European project on opera co-creation, publications on culture and international development and community heritage. My podcast with Arlene Goldbard is here.
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One of the most read pages on this site is A (very short) history of the British community arts movement. Perhaps it comes up if you search for the history of…
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Veuillez faire défiler vers le bas pour lire le texte en français. Claire Angelini is a French artist whose work is preoccupied with the troubling presence of the past in the…
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Academic publishing takes time, but life moves more quickly. Yesterday, I received a copy of a book of articles from a conference about music mediation to I spoke at in…
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This post was first published on A Selfless Art; you can subscribe there for updates on my thinking and the book. For a writer (or an artist of any kind)…
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The concept of human capabilities – as elaborated in the writings of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum – is central to the new direction that A Selfless Art represents for me. It…
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There’s a new post on A Selfless Art today, reflecting on two different talks I gave this month: please follow the link to read it and subscribe to get updates…
François Matarasso 