Den Draad — a social-artistic project

A cooperation between student-artists of KASK Ghent and artists of Kunstwerkplaats De Zandberg Harelbeke.
It began with 300 km of woven string.
The artists unfolded and followed it. They came together. For several weeks they tested each other, lived together, ate together, told jokes, exchanged their opinions about people, politics, mass-media and art.

Guiding each other in multiple ways: teaching in a two-way traffic, instead of the typical one-way.
Artists who both speak their own language, in search of a common understanding. They could be both complementary:
see the other in its disablement, but look further than that. Building a solid body included of legs and arms. A connection between the regular art-world and outsider-art.
Our society is formed by different groups and has its form by them. It doesn't exist without them. If they weren’t included, the whole loses its shape and meaning.

The project resulted in a first exhibition in de Brielpoort in Deinze: an installation with sculptures and silkscreen prints. In april 2009 the project was shown at the AZ Sint Lukas Gent.

Look at the pictures to see the work process. All artworks in the pictures are made by the artists from Kunstwerkplaats De Zandberg. Photos were taken by Pieter and myself. The last 4 pictures are made by Jan Goeman.

Artists:

Julia Beckx • Rudy Callant • Kenny Callens • Tony Coopman • Joachim Coucke • Frédéric Deschamps • Lia Hes • Pieter Jansegers • Lindsy Mervilde • Saskia Packu • Philippe Persoons • Ine Vacquier