Podcast #8: Re-creation Reinaerde

In the eighth episode of the podcast What's that doing here? Esther Didden and co-host Kamiel Verschuren spoke with visual artists Sjaak Langenberg and Rosé de Beer, and with filmmaker Floor Hofman. They also spoke with Nanda Lippens of Reinaerde.

Sjaak Langenberg and Rosé de Beer have been working with care organization Reinaerde for years. Together with the artists and designers they invite, including Floor Hofman, they make new connections between De Heygraeff in Woudenberg - where people live with severe mental and physical disabilities - and the recreational environment. They will then develop installations, workshops, performances, prototypes and interventions in the outdoor space.

This involves using residual materials from the organization and the environment of De Heygraeff as much as possible. Thus, care for people, materials and nature come together at ONEn place. What can art accomplish in such an environment that cannot be accomplished from within the health care system? And what is it like to work as an artist with this target group?

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At www.bkinformatie.nl/podcast In addition to listening to the podcasts, you can also respond to the statements we formulate for each episode. The statement accompanying the podcast with Langenberg and De Beer:

For better and more complete care, the healthcare industry greatly benefits from collaboration with artists.

About the podcast

Under the title What's that doing here? BK-information brings a ten-part podcast series about artists and the social issues they deal with. In each episode, philosopher and expert on art in public space Esther Didden and a co-host discuss artists who realize their work within a social context. A context in which very different criteria apply than within the "usual" art discourse. Why do they work within that context and what does it bring to their artistry? What criteria do they have to deal with? And what does it bring to society? What does an artist add when he or she sits at a conference table?

You can also listen to the podcast via:
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Podcast #9

The next podcast will appear on November 3, at the same time as the next BK Information. In it we will talk with artist Elke Uitentuis. She is committed to helping people who are undocumented and we will talk about her artist collective We sell reality. Uitenhuis describes this collective as a socially contrary label set up by refugees in collaboration with artists. Together they make products that express a disappointing Europe, a failing asylum policy, survival, and the impossibility of building a new life somewhere else. But it's also about pride, love and strength. We Sell Reality makes the reality of vulnerable survivors visible, seductive and saleable.

What is that doing here? is made possible in part by the Mondrian Fund and the Pictoright Fund.