Considering the Network of Heritage and Historical Value in Archaeology and Art

This article is an interview at the completion of the NEARCH project (New Scenarios For A Community-Involved Archaeology). Funded by the European Commission, NEARCH brought together artists and archaeologists to explore various dimensions of public participation in contemporary archaeology and bring to the field, which is strongly influenced by economic and social developments in society, new ways of working and collaborating. In this article the processes of collaboration are discussed from the point of view of the two collaborating artists (Martin Westwood and Joey Bryniarska) and two of the archaeologists they worked with over four years (Jean Yves Breuil, an archaeologist and researcher at INRAP, France, and Anita Synnestvedt, a researcher in heritage and archaeology at the department of Historical Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden).