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24 March 2023 Uncategorized

Principles of co-creation

This site will be closing shortly, with all my work concentrated on a single website http://www.arestlessart.com. New posts will be published

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1 January 2023 Uncategorized

More carpenters than jackasses

In this part of Northern Europe, midwinter skies are often bright and clear. The low sun floods in like stage

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9 August 2022 Uncategorized

Virtual Realities, Part One

If you invite people to co-create a Virtual Reality opera no one has the first idea what you have in mind. 

23 June 2022 Traction / Uncategorized

‘Write this down’

It was the end of a long day. We’d run out of time and the guards needed to get us

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16 June 2022 opera / Traction / Uncategorized

Building Capabilities: Rethinking the social value of culture

Today will see the third performance of O Tempo (Somos Nós) , “Time (It’s Us), this time at the Gulbenkian Concert

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6 April 2022 Regular Marvels I / Uncategorized / Where we dream

Start by valuing what’s already there

Last night, Arlene Goldbard and I recorded the next episode of our blog, ‘A Culture of Possibility’. Our guest was

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20 March 2022 Traction / Uncategorized

Reflecting on ‘El Cabaret de la Gata’

A long journey needs resting points It is a surprise, in my sixties, to find myself working on opera, as

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17 March 2022 Traction / Uncategorized

‘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

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29 December 2021 Uncategorized

Life interrupted

Some personal news on my other site:  

5 October 2021 Traction / Uncategorized

Between Beckett and Homer: excellence in co-creation

There are moments in every good community art project when you watch, suspended between wonder and terror, as it takes

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I’m a community artist, writer and researcher, working mostly in Europe. My latest book, 'A Restless Art', describes the history, theory and practice of participatory art.

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