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Tag: ways of knowing

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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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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25 October 2014 Regular marvels / Regular Marvels in Theory / Uncategorized

An antidote for visual satiety

  In a world saturated with pictures, the work of artists is very vulnerable and very important –vulnerable because it

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5 June 2014 A Wider Horizon

Rosie Redzia

Words last time: pictures today. Rosie Redzia, the wonderful artist with whom I’m working on ‘A Wider Horizon’, has been

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3 June 2014 Regular marvels

Speaking in tongues

Words captivated me first: then stories. As a small child, I didn’t always follow the story or care if I

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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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30 April 2014 From My Life

Music as an adventure playground

Originally posted on Parliament of Dreams:
Music: What is it good for? In the 1970s, at a time when we were less…

17 April 2014 From My Life

Misguided visionaries and rigid minds

From My Life is the most ambitious Regular Marvel so far, and it is already testing some aspects of the

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19 March 2014 Regular Marvels in Theory

Testing the rules

Human beings exist in language. Words and people change each other constantly. The meaning of words shifts as they slip

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2 March 2014 From My Life

Restless meanings

Classical music is as important as photography in Terence Davies’ elegiac film about the people and city of Liverpool in

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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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