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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 June 2022 Traction

The meaning of risk in community art

Three days ago, anticipating the first performance of the Leiria prison opera, I wrote that I didn’t expect to see

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24 November 2012 Winter fires

Mik Godley’s portraits of older artists

Here are Mik Godley’s final portraits, which are reproduced in Winter Fires. They start with photographs I made, in discussion with the

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16 November 2012 Winter fires

The second book is (nearly) here

Winter Fires is printed, and copies are on their way to London for the launch on 27 November. The work

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12 November 2012 Winter fires

An immodest proposal

In 1729, Jonathan Swift published A Modest Proposal, his brutal satire of English policy in Ireland; in it, he proposed

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4 November 2012 Winter fires

First words (from ‘Winter Fires’)

A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Aristotle, 335 BCE When Edward Said died

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23 October 2012 Regular marvels

The journey is not the record of the journey

‘What form do these projects take?’ It was one of several questions that came up after my talk at Banlieues

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22 October 2012 Regular marvels

Talking it over

This evening I’ll be speaking about Regular Marvels in Lyon (France), for my old friends at Banlieues d’Europe. It will

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29 September 2012 Winter fires

‘Winter Fires’ publication date

Winter Fires, Art and Agency in Old Age will be published by Baring Foundation on 27 November 2012 and will be

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12 September 2012 Winter fires

Frightening ourselves silly

It is not easy to resist the frightening stories of old age that dominate contemporary culture. Even when programme makers

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6 September 2012 Bread and Salt

Living in language

Mohan Rana is an Indian poet who has lived in Britain for over 20 years, but always writing in Hindi

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15 August 2012 Winter fires

Nothing about us, without us

The draft text of Winter Fires should be complete by the end of August. Everyone who has contributed to it

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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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