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Podcast: New Books in Art
Episode: François Matarasso, "A Restless Art: How Participation Won, and Why it Matters" (CGF, 2019)
Description: It is almost twenty years since contemporary art took a ‘participation turn’. Now, just about every museum or theatre company has a participation or engagement department. It is nothing short of orthodoxy that one of art’s core roles is to reach out to audiences beyond art institutions - and paradoxically it is often art institutions that mandate this function. How can we reconcile the somewhat forgotten history - and ongoing practice - of the community arts with the recent rise of participatory art, social practice, or outreach and engagement?François Matarasso speaks to Pierre d'Alancaisez about h...