KIJK — Drawings from 26 November 2017

I haven't written much on this blog and the number of things I should write grows exponentially. So I just start posting instead of waiting for when I have enough time to organise everything decently.

So "KIJK" ("LOOK") project still exists, more than that, it evolves. Now there's a team of four people who keep it running, it has changed location, now it takes place in "Het Badhuis", the cafeteria of Museum Dr. Guislain. It is really cozy there, the atmosphere is warm... and there are even people who keep coming back and bring new people. (Basically, two and something years ago when I started, that was my dream that it would be something like this. There was some disappointment on the way, I seriously wanted to stop at some point — now I can admit it — but the crisis is behind and, well, it seems that there is a community forming on.) 

The next goal is to kind of justify all the effort and the existence of the project and its team and its participants by publishing a book with drawings and testimonials.

Here are the drawings from the yesterday's session. 

ON|RUST

"ON|RUST" ("UN|REST" in Dutch) is a photo series developed by JW Fotografen in the frame of the project "Is it creative? Yes. Is it art?" 

Here is the first image of the series.

Organic Liberation

"Organic Liberation" is one of the groups originated in the project "Is it creative? Yes. Is it art?" We have four sessions behind the back and there are a few more to go. 

Here you can see the creations produced in all the four sessions.

Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

Session 4

KIJK! - Drawings from 15 April

And more drawings. Thanks everyone for coming! And Peter Stanssens for helping with the organisation and the two cakes :) 

More info: https://wiazemsky.eu/kijk/

KIJK! — drawings from 8 April

What you see is what you draw. I brought the dog to the session, and — who would guess! — half of the drawings feature a dog.

More info: https://wiazemsky.eu/kijk

KIJK! - Drawings from 1 April

I organized this session, and I had then a very particular feeling... I didn't do it for two weeks but I didn't have to feel guilty for not organizing the event, it was there with Peter. I felt much calmer and rested and excited. And there were quite a few people who came and I had a feeling that it starts to become a community. 

More info about the project: https://wiazemsky.eu/kijk/

KIJK! - Drawings from 25 March

This was the second session with Peter Stanssens and without me :)

More info about the project: https://wiazemsky.eu/kijk/.

KIJK! - Drawings from 18 March

This was a big day for the project. The first time that it happened without me, with the help of Peter Stanssens to whom my warmest and biggest thanks. It is so great to work on such a project together with other people.

Every Saturday in psychiatric center Guislain: drawings, films, and pastry. Welcome :)

More info about the project: https://wiazemsky.eu/kijk/.

Kijk! - Drawings from 11 March

New drawings!

More info about the project: More info about the project: https://wiazemsky.eu/kijk/.

The sound research — session # 3

This time we were practicing with magazines. We wrote down about 20 tasks for the players and placed them in a specific order. Each player was supposed to follow the order of the tasks in his/her own tempo. 

The sound research — session # 2

In the second 'sound research' session, we began with listening to Olivier Messiaen and Goldberg variations on Bach. Bit per bit we started exploring what kind of sounds can one make with die KUNSTZEITUNG.

Later, we thought of a few 'tasks' we can 'answer to' using the newspaper sounds. For instance, 'slower', 'faster', 'happy', 'dramatic', 'tick a page for 10 times'. The tasks were written on paper cards and the conductor was showing us them to direct us. And here's what we got.

JW fotografen

Then we had a session about long exposure and flash light. And painting with light. 

JW fotografen

More macro pictures, from the outside :)

JW fotografen

More pictures from last week. The theme was "macro photography". 

Happy happy women day

I had a workshop today in Bloemekenswijk, Ghent, as a part of a festivity for the Women's day. It was an introduction to my project "Is it creative? Yes. Is it art?" 

I must say, it was really, really, really highly enjoyable. It was really interesting to talk about what is art, and what's the threshold, and about the art market. It was also wonderful that everyone found her own style. 

Thank you, ladies! There are still 5 places to inscribe for the workshop. It will happen in the buurt centrum Bloemekenswijk on Wednesday morning, starting next week for 10 times. I will post an update with the program very soon. Don't hesitate to write me if you have any questions!

JW fotografen

For the project "Is it creative? Yes. Is it art?" I also started to work with a group JW fotografen. 

During the first session, we were working on silhouette photography. Here are some examples of what we have made.