Traction – A Restless Art

‘Cabaret de la Gata’ – Traction takes off

As the pandemic recedes—or perhaps becomes normalised—it is becoming hard to recall the strangeness of those lockdown months, and the

For decades, longer even, cultural policy in Europe has been imagined as a conflict between two ideas. The first is

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

This photograph of the artists working on Irish National Opera’s Out of the Ordinary project was taken on 20 August 2021, at

In October, I wrote about a community opera being created in County Durham that had been stopped just weeks before

Intellectual property rights have rarely been an issue during my life in community art. The projects I’ve worked consciously rejected

In February, I participated in the kick-off meeting of TRACTION, a Horizon 2020 project researching how digital technology can support