OUTSIDER ART, ARTIST COLLECTIVES AND ACTIVISM

From the ancient sculpture workshops of the Classical Antiquity to the recent Documenta 15: artist collectives have always played an important role in art history. From shared ownership to a shared ideology: collectives can bring change on various levels and in various places. How do artist collectives use art to fight for human rights? What makes them so extraordinary in the art world? And can the concept of an artist collective also apply to outsider art studios?

The Museum Dr. Guislain will host the 2024 annual conference and general assembly of the European Outsider Art Association (EOA). Welcome in Ghent!

PROGRAMME

Two-days visits through Belgium
Thursday 23 and Saturday 25 May 2024

OUTSIDER ART TOUR

23 May 2024

8:30 – 9:00 | We meet at the main entrance of the Museum Dr. Guislain (car park Jozef Guislainstraat 43). The bus leaves at 9:00.

Please be on time. If you have trouble finding us? Contact us on +32 471 68 47 39.

10:15 | LaM - Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

12:30 | Kunstwerkplaats De Zandberg (+ lunch), Harelbeke, Belgium

15:00 | La Pommeraie and Fondation Paul Duhem, Quevaucamps, Belgium

± 19:00 | Back in Ghent

25 May 2024

7:30 – 8:00 | We meet at the main entrance of the Museum Dr. Guislain (car park Jozef Guislainstraat 43). The bus leaves at 8:00.

Please be on time. If you have trouble finding us? Contact us on +32 471 68 47 39.

9u30 | Art et marges museum, Brussels, Belgium

12:00 | Trinkhall museum (+ lunch), Liège, Belgium

14:30 | Créahm, Liège, Belgium

16:15 | Museum of Flint – Tower of Eben Ezer (+ sandwiches), Bassenge, Belgium

± 20:15 | Back in Ghent

International Conference
Friday 24 May 2024

9:00 | Coffee and registration

9:30 | Welcome and Introduction

Welcome by Yoon Hee Lamot, curator Museum Dr. Guislain

Welcome by Lien Van de Velde, director Cultuur Gent

Introduction by Thomas Röske, director Prinzhorn Collection, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany: Collective Outsider Art?

9:55 | Bart Marius, artistic director Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium: Collective heritage: the museum as common

10:30 | Break

10:50 | Art studios and artist collectives

Luc Vandierendonck, director Wit.h, Kortrijk, Belgium: Sottobosco

Kate Adams, artistic director & CEO of Project Art Works, Hastings, UK: Personalising Environments for Creative Freedom and Purpose: sometimes art happens in the process

Monika Jagfeld, director open art museum, St. Gallen, Switzerland: lumbung brut

11:50 | Panel discussion and performance

Panel discussion: Can the concept of an artist collective also apply to studio work?

Moderator: Thomas Röske, director Prinzhorn Collection, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany

Panellists: Michiel de Jaeger (production collaborator Créahm, Liège, Belgium) / Carl Havelange (artistic director Trinkhall museum, Liège, Belgium) / Marc Steene (director Outside In, Chichester, UK)

Performance by Vincent Obert de Thieusies, JP De Brabander and Dirk Bryssinck of Villa Voortman, Ghent Belgium

12:50 | Lunch

14:00 | Psychiatry and artist collectives

Monika Perenyei, Psychiatric Art Collection of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary: Dreampalaces: emotionally safe spaces and their filmic representation in the work of the Hungarian-American psychiatrist Irene Jakab in the1970s

Dirk Bryssinck, Villa Voortman, Ghent, Belgium: Villa Voortman: a meeting place in the city of Ghent

Lucinda Ra, Ghent, Belgium: studio visit

15:00 | Break

15:20 | Artistic Collectives and Activism in Latin America, in collaboration with the University of Cologne (Marileen La Haije and Bieke Willem)

Marileen La Haije, researcher, Cologne, Germany: Minding Arts: Arts-based Practices of Mental Health and Human Rights Activism in Latin America

Sofía Lanusse, director Outsider Art Fair New York, USA: Art on the margins of the system in Argentina (online)

Beatriz Liebe & Verónica Rodríguez, El Otro Festival, Rosario, Argentina & L’Altre, Barcelona, Spain: The Other Festivals. An ibero-american dialogue about Performing Arts and Mental Health (online)

Alfredo Olivera, Radio La Colifata, Paris/Buenos Aires, France/Argentina: Happening "colifato"

Florencia Rodríguez Giles, artistic collective Club de Artes y Ocios (CAOs), La Plata, Argentina: Artistic Health (online)

Santiago Barugel: Hospital Tobar García, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Magic circles

Larisa Zmud: Belleza y Felicidad Fiorito, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Food Tables: Community luxury, flavor, dreams, and desires (online)

17:15 | Visit of the exhibitions Off-Comics and Ikigai

19:00 | Dinner (EOA members & speakers only)

21:30 – 23:30 | EOA party

General Assembly
Sunday 26 May 2024

10:00 | Coffee

10:30 – 12:00 | EOA General Assembly (members only)

Ticket price Total Package (23-26 May): 130 euros

The ticket price includes:

• Two-days visits through Belgium: entrance fees and lunch included

• International Conference: coffee, lunch and dinner (dinner exclusively for EOA members) included

• General Assembly

The European Outsider Art Association (EOA) operates as an umbrella organisation devoted to the promotion of art and artists outside the mainstream art world.

With the support of