artists in context

the system

Artists in context has been created for young artists between 18 and 25 year old, and who are involved in the European Voluntary Service . It allows the participating artists to discover new territories, to live unique experiences, and to develop new forms of artistic commitment.

Thus, artists leave their habits and the contemporary art’s usual places, to be part of an unexpected location and then, to be in contact with new publics. Hospitals, jails, underprivileged suburbs, isolated countries, urban socially stricken zones, are some of the places enriching inventions and new artistic processes, which demand creativity and true human relations.

Within the last ten years, this programme has enabled more than 200 emerging artists to build their projects based on human, social, and economical contexts, thanks to fourteen cultural organisations’ support. The projects the artists of the first three programmes have done are compiled in the Pépinières’ book : Parcours d’artistes / Artists experiences.

Otto Snoek

6 Artists in context programes:

AIC¹ 1998
AIC² 1999
AIC³ 2001-2002
AIC⁴ 2002-2004
AIC⁵ 2004-2005
AIC⁶ 2005-2006