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Tag: representation

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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5 September 2021 Traction / Uncategorized

The difference between a professional and a non-professional artist – Part 2

What does ‘professional’ mean? Like many words, professional has changed its meaning over the course of history, adapting itself to society’s evolving

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19 June 2014 The Light Ships

A painful edge to oral history

The Light Ships is proving to be a revelation. An exploration of the church’s place in a community’s artistic life,

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24 May 2014 Regular marvels

Authorship and authenticity

 In 1841, a young father and musician was kidnapped in Washington DC, shipped in chains to New Orleans and sold

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5 January 2014 Regular Marvels in Theory

Richard Sennett

Philosophy Bites is a podcast that has been produced since 2007 by David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton. In the spirit

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19 November 2013 Regular marvels

Lying for truth

The Bush Theatre invited me to give a talk tonight in their RADAR Festival of new writing. It was a

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4 November 2013 Regular Marvels in Theory / Winter fires

Bringing one’s self into the lab

An ethnographer’s perspective on drawing A few weeks after the publication of Winter Fires, I was contacted by the editor

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18 July 2013 Bread and Salt

Bread and Salt Launch in Utrecht

A few photos from the launch of Bread and Salt/Brood en Zout at De Stadsschouwburg Utrecht on 21 June 2013, all taken

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17 July 2013 Bread and Salt

A Swiss perspective on art and migration

«For a Swiss, I am a Japanese and for a Japanese I am a Swiss or rather a gaijin.» Pro

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