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Tag: representation

24 January 2013 Winter fires

‘When will we get rid of you?’

Elder Abuse in Kyrgyzstan There is an extraordinary series of photographs in the latest issue of Anthropology and Ageing Quarterly

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17 January 2013 Bread and Salt

Three European myths about diversity

Myth # 1: The tradition of European democracy One of the comforting myths of European society is that it is

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4 January 2013 Bread and Salt

Do. Or do not.

I was sitting in a darkened auditorium. It was a modern cinema and the chairs were big and plush and

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27 November 2012 Winter fires

Winter Fires: Book now available

Winter Fires: Art and agency in old age is published today. Old age haunts the human imagination. Nowadays, it also

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23 March 2012 Winter fires

Ways of being an old painter

At the National Portrait Gallery, in London, there is a photograph of two painters by David Dawson. Lucian Freud stands

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16 March 2012 Where we dream

Why write about people’s life in the arts?

Where we Dream is now with the designer. Before it went, I asked a few friends who work in the arts

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12 March 2012 Winter fires

Representing people

Work on the portraits for Winter Fires continues, alongside the meetings and conversations with older artists. The aim is to produce a

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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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