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ArtWorksAndMore was founded by the visual artists Antoon Versteegde and Sylvia Dekker. From 1984 onward, they developed and supervised interactive group projects as community art, continuously pushing back frontiers between the creative artist and the general public, and frequently breaching the dividing line between imagination and reality. It is notably the active participation of the public through which these events offer a unique opportunity to build a bridge between the visual arts and its spectators. These events bring about a permanent change in the perception of one's own surroundings, so it turns out, because the participants are actively involved (for the first time, in many cases) in the creation of a work of art. They do so by creating, with combined efforts, a life-size temporary installation made of bamboo.
At first, the participants individually build their own piece of work, which will be part of the entire group project only afterwards. In this way, they work as individual creators within a planned art project from the outset, without being aware of this. None of them can anticipate the result of the project, which is still unknown. At this stage, it is not the achievement or the presentation of the artistic project to be created which is the object in view, but human contact, with mutual trust and inspiration as an important factor.
By now, ArtWorksAndMore has grown into an organization for various creative work forms. Its objective is to actively involve participants in creative processes, thus stimulating their vision and perception of new forms of communication. Art as a source of inspiration shows how organized creativity can contribute to a colorful and tolerant society.