Community, Residency & Workshops
Art (noun): a skill acquired by experience, study, or observation
Artworks (noun): an artistic production Merriam Webster
Artwork only exists when there is someone to see it.
Art is the relationship between artwork and the person who experiences it.
My work today is based upon community interactions.
• With my collaborators, I seek to inspire feelings, thought processes and observations in people I meet by exchanging with them, working on the creative process and provoking dialog. By means of the common project, I hope to share a glimpse of other people’s ways of seeing.
In 2008, as a commercially successful artist, I decided to change direction. I wanted to work with the community – in particular I wanted to work within schools. To me, school is a place where time may be easily framed - a place to meet individuals within groups, to explore together. As I don’t teach art, I don’t go to residencies to just do what teachers want. I go for the challenge (experience), the joyful devotion of creation, and for sharing, in order to transform moments of our lives into delight and discovery.
My way of working with communities centers around sharing experiences: "meeting, seeing, reading, creating, writing, speaking and listening" This is what I value the most in my creation. Artwork as a process leading to art. I transmit my artwork process by introducing my work, especially
Combat : Manual for daily survival (Combat in progress 2008) which is a participative work. I do that through video, writing, creating and by being present - listening, observing, creating, discussions in groups and individual exchange. Sometimes it is like a game, sometimes it is experimental, as that is a big part of my work.
• In the process, I give a value to community empowerment, valuing the individual in their art as well as their importance in the community.
• Teachers participate in this creative process too. In a recent residency, I was very pleased when the teachers told me they would be able to use what we had done, in the future with other children. I like to work out how I can share my joy of creation with others.
In residencies, I develop my personal work with local staff, teachers and students of every age. The project tends to expand as we consider the surrounding context and think of different possibilities. When we form excellent creative relationships, we can go a long way together. In recent years, I have been collaborating on my personal works with a team of people I have known for many years, including a writer and a musician, with others joining us periodically according to the needs of the project. We are currently preoccupied with creating a performance piece that we began during a residency in the summer of 2021. This will include elements of narrative text, music and movement as well as visual aspects.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
Artworks (noun): an artistic production Merriam Webster
Artwork only exists when there is someone to see it.
Art is the relationship between artwork and the person who experiences it.
My work today is based upon community interactions.
• With my collaborators, I seek to inspire feelings, thought processes and observations in people I meet by exchanging with them, working on the creative process and provoking dialog. By means of the common project, I hope to share a glimpse of other people’s ways of seeing.
In 2008, as a commercially successful artist, I decided to change direction. I wanted to work with the community – in particular I wanted to work within schools. To me, school is a place where time may be easily framed - a place to meet individuals within groups, to explore together. As I don’t teach art, I don’t go to residencies to just do what teachers want. I go for the challenge (experience), the joyful devotion of creation, and for sharing, in order to transform moments of our lives into delight and discovery.
My way of working with communities centers around sharing experiences: "meeting, seeing, reading, creating, writing, speaking and listening" This is what I value the most in my creation. Artwork as a process leading to art. I transmit my artwork process by introducing my work, especially
Combat : Manual for daily survival (Combat in progress 2008) which is a participative work. I do that through video, writing, creating and by being present - listening, observing, creating, discussions in groups and individual exchange. Sometimes it is like a game, sometimes it is experimental, as that is a big part of my work.
• In the process, I give a value to community empowerment, valuing the individual in their art as well as their importance in the community.
• Teachers participate in this creative process too. In a recent residency, I was very pleased when the teachers told me they would be able to use what we had done, in the future with other children. I like to work out how I can share my joy of creation with others.
In residencies, I develop my personal work with local staff, teachers and students of every age. The project tends to expand as we consider the surrounding context and think of different possibilities. When we form excellent creative relationships, we can go a long way together. In recent years, I have been collaborating on my personal works with a team of people I have known for many years, including a writer and a musician, with others joining us periodically according to the needs of the project. We are currently preoccupied with creating a performance piece that we began during a residency in the summer of 2021. This will include elements of narrative text, music and movement as well as visual aspects.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.