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ReportIPIP-project - Een Hoofd Vol Haar

30 November 2017 @ 6pm.

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INDEX

IPIP - In Public In Particular 3

IPIP - Partners 4The In Situ3 - studio

Schedule 5

Audience development 6Children 6Teenagers 6Ethnic Minorities 7Elderly people 8Projecting the mission of IPIP 8Extending the target audience 9The Redheads and Gingers 9Volunteers 10Organizations, Ngo partners 11Guest lecturers 12Guest students 12Targeting user groups and low threshold access 13

General overview 16

Student Artworks 17

The community 31Cultural taboos

Observations 32The audience

The City of Antwerp 33The Steering team

The Schools 34Academy and ConservatoireUniversity College & Departmental staff

Communication 35LanguagePublicityNewspaper articles

Time management 37Rehearsals – extra rewards Streets – Route and venue

Staged Events, Sound and music 38Photographers and videographers Learning curve Educational value

General conclusions 39Antwerp – A Multicultural CityExtra thanks

Student Research texts 40

References 41

Technical report - Een Hoofd Vol Haar 2017 42

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Report - IPIP-project - Een Hoofd Vol Haar – 30 November 2017 @ 6pm.

The artist’s practice, and his behaviour, as producer determines the relations that will be struck up with his work. In other words, what he produces first and foremost is relations between people and the world, by way of aesthetic objects. (Nicolas Bourriaud 2002:43)

The Een Hoofd Vol Haar became our main IPIP project for 2017. The project was an ‘art happening’ at the Permeke Library situated between Dambruggestraat and the De Coninckplein in Antwerp North.

Map - location (BiB = Library) with the Godiva’s -route. Poster for the event.

IPIP - In Public In Particular In Public, In Particular (IPIP) aims to develop and promote participatory art methods and situation spe-cific art among European audiences. The main tools to reach these aims are audience research, public workshops and international street happenings which are carried through by artists and art students in close cooperation with street actors and the public of four European streets.Each partner has chosen a specific street in their city and will focus on the people, services, history and phenomena of those streets. Small enterprises, public offices, libraries and NGOs located by the selected streets are invited to cooperative workshops in order to plan, implement and estimate situation specific artworks with the artists and art students. This way they provide special knowledge about the streets and contribute to the content of the artworks whilst they also learn about artistic processes and practices and the beneficial possibilities of art.During IPIP the participating artists and art students are provided with multiprofessional workshop pe-riods. Special attention is given to applying inspiring digital marketing methods to promote situation specific art and participatory art for general public and international audiences. Audiences outside the project areas are invited and encouraged to participate in the project activities through social media.http://ipip-project.eu

The IPIP project is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

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IPIP - Partners & their chosen streets

Arts Academy, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Turku, Finland - street: Linnankatu

Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, AP University College, Antwerp, Belgium - street: Dambruggestraat

National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland - street: Thomas Street

Faculty of Graphic Arts, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia - street: Teslina Ulica

The In Situ3 - studio of the Academy proposed an indoor happening with a short outdoor intervention at the Permeke library. Our proposal was embraced by the Antwerp-North district City council who once again welcomed the idea of incorporating artistic mediation into their annual Northern lights neighbour-hood party. The venue was selected because it is an active node in multi-cultural area, which is generally known as a ‘problematic’ neighbourhood. It is situated on the reputed De Coninckplein and also has an entrance on Dambruggestraat, which oddly houses nine barbershops/hair-salons and an extraordinary amount in the adjacent streets.

Hair has strong site specific, socio-political and cultural connotations, especially in this region of the city (amongst others - Belgian, various African nationalities, Moslem, Indian, Chinese, Palestinian and Je-wish). The topic offered the students a wide conceptual scope. It turned out to be versatile as well as remarkably educational - (please refer to the attached list of research articles given to students during the May and October workshops). Shonisane Netshia, a guest lecturer from South Africa, compiled an appropriate PowerPoint on the politics of hair, which was shown on the library monitors during the two-week run of the exhibition (please refer to the IPIP website, http://ipip-project.eu).

Artist & Lecturer Shonisani Netshia

More than 400 people actively participated in the event during the opening night and many more viewers and patrons of the library attended the exhibition during the ensuing two weeks. For a second time the multi-ethnic region and their underestimated identity conveyed a positive message IPIP, the City coun-cil and the Academy staff and students managed to provide a cultural platform where several levels of education, identities, genders and age groups interacted and appreciated each other’s innovative contri-butions. In this regard we consider our interactive Een Hoofd vol haar of 2017 a great success.

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Schedule:

• 2 May 2016: starting date• 30 November 2017: Thursday evening, Final date• 10 February 2017: launch: meeting in the library with Geert Gielis (cultural antenna of the district

Antwerp-North) and Bart Van Merode (production manager) to discuss our proposal of a ‘hair happening’ rather than a parade.

• 2 May - 11 May 2017: preparatory period / concept workshop (see previous report).• 20th of May 2017: meeting with the Conservatoire to talk about their participation. • End of June 2017: announcement and explanation of the project in the Library newspaper.• 20 - 30 June 2017: meetings with the other departments of the AP University College: Health and

Wellness, Management & Communication, Teacher Training, Theatre Costume and Jewellery. • First week of October2017: additional info meetings with the other studios of the Academy and a

renewed drive to visit and convince hair-salons and barbershops to participate.• 12 October: logistic arrangement with the city council, the printing of posters, police permission for

the horse to appear in a public space.• 20 October: photo shoot - Portraits of the local citizens at the Elegast social club.• 26 October: deadline for the artistic proposals from students. • 12 November: distribution of flyers as a follow-up after verbal invitations to barbers and hairstylists.• 14 November: meeting with young composers at the conservatory.• 15, 16 November: meeting with professional journalists, TV interviews and video shoots for the

newsreel (Youtube - https://atv.be/programmas/stadsreportage-%E2%80%98een-hoofd-vol-haar-kunst-en-kappers-in-2060-antwerpen-52347).

• 3 October till 30 November 2017 - preparatory period / execution time: from the, several meetings with art students in all invited studios.

• 30 November: Een Hoofd Vol Haar

Een Hoofd Vol Haar - opening night.

Proposal meeting: Eva & Marleen (Library), Bart, Barbara, Kris (AP) and Bruno (library, who made the photograph).

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Audience development • Children - Minah Park (Masters Art student) specifically included them in her neighbourhood portrait when the children visited the library for books or to use the computers. During the main event, early in the evening, many of the young audience came back to see their photograph in the artwork, the catwalk parade of ethnic head-dresses, listen to the music and see the art. There was also an interactive artwork designed for children encouraging them to use paintbrushes made from different hair textures.

Students of the Verbist Academy (Hairstylists) and their friends.

• Teenagers - Several of the students as well as models from the three hairstyling schools were teenagers. In addition, migrant teenagers from the area visit the library regularly for social interaction and internet access. They were given invitation leaflets and many came back and viewed the exhibition with friends on the night and later during the week.

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• Ethnic Minorities were visited and invited during the weeks before the event. This was fol-lowed up by the distribution of leaflets in Flemish, French and English to barbershops and hair salons. Multicultural personalities were specifically targeted for the community portrait. Everyone received their portraits from the art student (Minah Park) by e mail afterwards. This was an important gesture to make immigrants and marginalised persons feel welcome in Antwerp.

Photoshoot, visual effect - merging images of different portraits and part of the portrait of the neighbourhood.

Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen

Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen

Een hoofd

Stories, art and hair extensionsin 2060 Antwerp

vol haar

‘A head full of hair’ explores identity, personality and cre-ativity in different cultures. The 30th of November a social art-happening is coming to your neighbourhood. Join us at Permeke library for perfor-mances, expo, art & festivities. Entrance is free, no reservation.

We invite you to wair the typical hairpower of your roots.

‘Une tête pleine de cheveux’ explore l’identité, la personnalité et la créativité dans différentes cultures. Le 30 novembre, un événement d’art social arrive dans votre quartier. Rejoignez-nous à la bibliothèque de Permeke pour les représentations, exposition, art et une fête. L’entrée est gratuite, pas de réservation.

Nous vous invitons dans la coiffure typique de vos racines.

‘Een hoofd vol haar’ onderzoekt identiteit, persoonlijkheid en creativiteit in verschillende culturen. Op 30 november komt een sociaal en artistiek evenement naar uw buurt. Kom naar de bibliotheek Permeke voor voorstellingen, expo, kunst en een buurtfeest. Toegang is gratis, geen reservatie.

Wij nodigen u uit om in een typische haardracht te komen van uw roots.

Foto: Stefan Vanthuyne. v.u. Pascale De Groote - Lange Nieuwstraat 101, 200 Antwerpen. Gelieve deze flyer niet op de openbare weg te gooien.

Recto Verso flyers that were distributed.

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• Elderly people were informed about the event by the library and through their social club in the vicinity. They were excited about getting free haircuts, an entertaining night out and receiving their portraits after the event. They became active participants thanks to their haircut! In other words: there was a thin line between spectators and participants. Most of us were both that night!

• Projecting the mission of IPIP into the public space – the library provided a captive audience of spectators – the catwalk and varied music programme attracted an additional amount of unexpected viewers. By including the other studios from the academy and including a visiting student group, we managed to increase our ‘non habit’ participants and viewers and publicise our IPIP agenda.

Artist Subin Son - making the design (derived from hair partings) for the catwalk.

Barber Glen, from Suriname, and Martha, a senior citizen from Antwerp, having her haircut.

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• Extending the target audience - The library is a popular meeting place for migrants. When one attracts the interest of children, the parents become involved too. In addition, the jewellery studio of the Academy created a variety of colourful ethnic and contemporary hair adornments. The Chinese community together with visiting Chinese students from Shenzhen University, created cultural head-dresses and costumes for the catwalk. These ‘conversation pieces’ attracted many subsequent viewers as they were exhibited on the catwalk and in showcases in the library for the following two weeks.

Guests students from Shenzhen University.

Artworks from the Jewellery studio.

• Volunteers - Redheads and Gingers artwork of Erasmus student, Erin Redmond, from NCAD, was based on co-operation with volunteers on Facebook, some of them were also in her entourage when she performed as our red-haired Lady Godiva.

Artist - Godiva - Erasmus student Erin Redmond.

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More volunteers – were included in the photographic neighbourhood portrait the week before. Moto-rised wheelchair volunteers participated in the lady Godiva’s entourage.

Motorised wheelchairs: Pierre with friend.

Volunteers also confronted their own prejudices and bought the tomato soup garnished with hair, vo-lunteers from Dambruggestraat provided hair from their shower drains for an artwork by Pablo Peneda Ballester. Another artwork by Quintin Stimm included hair and dust supplied by the neighbourhood’s vacuum cleaners. Large bags of hair-cuttings were collected from supportive salons and barbershops in the area for the performance by Jackson Shallcross-Platt (visit the video on IPIP website).

Artist Jackson Shallcross-Platt - A lifetime of hair (Performance).

Pierre, Adam (bagpipes) and Godiva on the streets.

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• Organizations, Ngo partners – City council, library, The Flemish opera, Elegast - neighbour-hood social club, Professional wig makers, Tanja Showpaarden, Hairstylists, Barbershops, Encora school for newcomers to Antwerp, St. Maria secondary school, Verbist Academy, Adult education art groups, Opera singers, Piano player, Belgriego ensemble, Young composers, Bagpipe player, Sax horn quartet and a Jazz + feest band.

Artists: Maria and Stella Markatakou and their Belgriego ensemble.

Barbers Philip and Glen with local participants and Verbist Academy (Hairdressing school).

Music program:‘Una voce poco fa’, Lísa Marý Viðarsdóttir, sopraan‘Se il mio nome’, Guðmundur Davíðsson, tenor ‘Largo al factotum’, Jóhann Óðinsson, bariton‘A qual colpo’, Lísa Marý Viðarsdóttir, Jóhann Óðinsson, Guðmundur DavíðssonAäron Wajnberg, pianoJasper De Roeck (bas), Tom Lambrecht (drums), Harrison Steingueldoir (piano), Lennert Baerts (sax) and Fien Desmet (vocals).Tanja Schowpaarden (centre photograph).

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• Guest lecturers – Our May programme, included five guest lecturers involved in public art. Ersi Varveri, Adrien Tirtiaux, Bart Lodewijks, Kai Lossgott and Bram Van Meervelde.

Artist: Bart Lodewijks - public artwork, drawings on the wall and celing of a clubhouse in Ronse.

Artist: Bram Van Meervelde - marching in Athens.

Artist: Kai LossgottIn the street performance interventions and videos of Kai Lossgott, the minute, jumbled and discarded fragments of urban life suddenly attract attention through slow and careful re-arrangement. The artist is fascinated by the shifting value placed on the same objects over time, in their journey from a super-market shelf to the chaos of the dump, back to the order of the anthropological museum display. As a human being and consumer, born in Europe, raised in South Africa, enquiring into the world as an Afro-descendent practitioner, Lossgott is ultimately concerned with knowledge itself. He wants to know how our inherited world-view may be reshaped when we realise through shifting contexts that we are not looking at the universe, it is looking at us.

Guest lecturer Gareth Kennedy (NCAD) and audience.Guest artist Kai Lossgott performing in public.

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Artist: Cil Buscher - A crown, made of hair referring to chemotherapy and hair loss.

• Guest students - DKO KASK Antwerpen (adult education): Cleo Foole, Cil Busher, Jan Wittoeck, Jyoti Van Acker, Laurent Kosten, Maya Van Treeck, Lando Riské, Walter Van Damme, Marie Van Lancker.

• Targeting user groups and low threshold access

Our project was an ideal tool to help migrant citizens to integrate into their new environment and feel part of it.

Anyone who visited the library, wanted a free haircut or new style and who enjoys a good vibe, music (catering for various tastes), an art exhibition, fashion parade, fun and a party.

• Increasing knowledge - Providing visual and aural literacy in the public sphere by merging performance art, exhibitions, classical and experimental music compositions, combined with the perfor-ming hair stylists. Many visitors of the diverse neighbourhood had never been to art exhibitions or music concerts before this event. The Red hair project and the bejewelled headdresses were informative. A number of the student’s artworks addressed issues and prejudices regarding gender. Children using the paintbrushes learned about mark-making with different hair textures.

Wig-making workshop.

Workshop with guest Lecturer Eddy Demeyer. New encounters in the library, for students from Theatre Costume Design and students from the Verbist Academy.

The November workshops on wig making attracted participants and viewers, guest lecturers from Adult Education assisted their students to install artworks, the PowerPoint about African hair as a political issue featured on three of the monitors in the library and all In Situ3 students received copies.

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Screening the PowerPoint about political control and hair created an awareness about racism.

The display of ethnic head-dresses by the jewellery students were clearly labelled with details about their geographical origins and related customs.

Collaborating with different art forms - Art, music, performance, fashion, jewellery and hairstylists taken out of their usual context attracted a seasoned as well as novice audience.

Challenging stereotypes - Having a concert in the library, allowing haircutting and eccentric styling in an unfamiliar space, four Lady Godiva’s, from divergent ethnic groups, on horseback inside a library is certainly unconventional.

4 Godiva’s: Sandy from Nigeria, Hilly from Indonesia, Erin from Ierland and Leila from Algiers.

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• Taking events to new and unexpected spaces to enlarge the audience - All the above il-lustrates this aspect. The involvement differed, some people were engaged for months, others only on the day itself.

Ethnic headdresses created by the jewellery students of the Academy.Every piece had a description of its origin and customs.

Designers: Cioanca Adelina Ilinca, Anna Robertson, Eva Hofko, Gaëlle Van Durme, Gille Peeters, Helia Jafarazadeh, HsuanChun Huang, Jesper Kollau, Laura Nierinck, Lena D’Hoore, Lisa Van Camp, Miia Kota, Olha Timkova-Liakhovs-ka, Raphaël Dorot, Rungfa Jantanarat, Suzan Faili, Valerie Naumova, Ye Wang, Yu Fujiwara and Yuyeong Choi.

The Verbist Academy cutting & performing.

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General overview

The creative process was holistic, comprising hands-on research in the neighbourhood and effective audience participation. The project was certainly inter-generational and multicultural focussing on inclu-sivity and reciprocity. The well-known theorist on relational aesthetics, Bourriaud (2002:44) observes that contemporary art practice “produces space time elements and inter-human relations” and are able to “get people away from mass communication into a constructed conviviality and alternative sociabi-lity”. Een Hoofd Vol Haar certainly managed to implement these characteristics as can be seen on these unrehearsed in situ photographs and attached videos.

Viewers discussing artworks and the scene. Photographers - amateurs and professionals.

Godiva, Erin, mounting her horse at the Dambrugge-straat-entrance of the Permeke Library.

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192 portraits are in a grid of see-through two way mirrors. They are all wearing hair-like objects and a variety of facial expressions. Faces are reflected and merged in the mirror walls around each portrait which reinforces the sensation of being a community. These portraits were taken of the inhabitants of the 2060 district of Antwerp, where the Permeke library is located.

The artwork may reflect some physical and behavioral sameness, and also the humor of this behavior, which is based on artist’s social experience of uniformed hair in South Korea. This work is an ex-tension of the student’s previous research, however, this new work shows ‘the other side of the coin’ focusing on; democracy and diversity. It is art based on sociological changes within the Antwerp com-munity which consists of many ethnic minorities.

It speculates on how uniformity, rules and systems could restrict people, but on the other hand, such devices may also function as cohesion, protection and safety within a diverse community. The hair-like objects are in a medium that conveys the artist’s experience, and the individual experience and appea-rance of each viewer transforms the objects and gives new meaning to it. The theorist Roland Barthes (1984:10, 12) points out that “a photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning disassociation of consciousness from identity … to become the observed subject and the subject observing … ‘posing’ I instantaneously make another body for myself, I transform myself in advance into an image” the surrounding reflective surface material in this artwork magnifies this conviction because the portraits merge with one another.

Furthermore, this work relies totally on audience participation and is a relevant work for the IPIP pro-ject as it deals with “the interhuman sphere … and also re-examines the notion of creative authorship” (Bourriaud 2002: unpaginated).

Student Artworks

Artist Minah Park - A community portrait

Minah Park photografing a participant on the night of the event.

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Detail.

A community portrait Antwerpen 2060.

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Artists - Felix Rapp and Jan de Man - Spoiled Spoonfuls

For the low-low price of €2.99 Spoiled Spoonful’s serves up a boiling bowl of milky red tomato soup, straight from the can, politely garnished with a pretty little lock of hair. Whether you find your meal delectable, boring or repulsive, we here at Spoiled Spoonfuls G-U-A-R-A-N-T-E-E a full refund regar-dless of whether your meal has been eaten or not! We’re here in the library courtyard for one day only so come on down! Let US spoil YOU!

Spoiled Spoonfuls. Kiosk/Caravan selling tomato soup garnished with hair, inside the library.

Artist - Erin Redmond - The Red-Head Project

Red hair is the rarest naturally occurring hair colour in the world at just 2% of the population. Throug-hout history in different cultures this unique quality has been feared, coveted, ridiculed, envied and de-sired. Red-heads come in all shapes, sizes and shades, but through collecting responses from other red heads on Facebook, I have found that we share a common experience as a members of this community. As an often overlooked minority, it is important to encourage a sense of pride among red-heads and to overcome the negative connotations associated with this hair colour in the past and to embrace it as the distinct and beautiful characteristic that it is.

The collected testimonies were exhibited on lockers in the library to evoke school lockers – reminiscent of the site where most red-heads have experienced bullying because of their Otherness. As a celebration of our ‘gingerness’ I became the red-headed Godiva crossing De Coninckplein accompanied by a red-headed entourage from the neighbourhood to showcase our pride and appreciation of our unique hair colour.

The Red-Head Project.Exhibited on the lockers in the Per-meke Library.

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Artist Feng Li - Hybrid Identity

Natural hair colour can be black, blonde, brown, red, grey or white. When people are old, the colour of their hair turns grey or white. Melanin determines ones hair colour, and when melanin deteriorates or dies, the hair turns grey or white. This is called achromotrichia.

Hair, eyes and skin has great social significance for human beings. Particular hair types, eyes and skin colours are associated with different ethnic groups. However, only the hair colour of everyone will even-tually be changed.

Currently globalization and frequent migration causes shifts in the population. Therefore individual iden-tification and social group identity has become exceedingly important. With his mecanical-digital pendu-lum the artist, Feng Li, poses a question about the kind of probability grey-haired senior citizens would express if they could all be grouped together in a diversified community.

Hybrid Identity.

Art for children; hand-made paint brushes.

Artist Nicholas Hanson - Interactive Installation

Art for children; hand-made paint brushes from human hair. Children using and sharing the paintbru-shes and the scroll of paper, learned about mark-making with different hair textures and through this they hopefully develop an interest and an acceptance of various cultures as well.

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Artists Julia Dahee Hong and Evi Olde Rikkert - The Hair Salon Cape Collection

It’s your turnyou sit downa cape wrapped around youwater spraying on your hairyou discuss hairstyles andthe shape of your faceyou understand each otherhopefullyshe starts cuttingyou look in the mirror and sometimes your eyes meet her eyesand its awkward and niceyou look at yourself in the mirroryou now have time for …………

The Hair Salon Cape Collection consisted of conversation pieces. This collection features thirty black capes for hair cutting with inverted white texts on them. The texts only became readable once the client sat in front of the hairdressers’ mirrors. They allowed for potential dialogue between the client and the hairdresser and/or the client with her/himself.

The texts on the capes suggested a topic, theme, or question, which could be a starting point for an open ended conversation. Some of these texts were humorous and light hearted while others suggest more difficult and confrontational topics. These capes were simultaneously comforting and discomfor-ting, echoing the experience of getting a haircut: trusting a stranger to cut your hair, with a pair of sharp scissors. Note – the capes proved to be so popular that by the end of the evening they had all disappeared and we were unable to exhibit them in the rest of the show.

The Hair Salon Cape Collection - Canadian Julia is having her hair cut by Nigerian Sandy, from hair-salon ‘Devine Touch’, Dambruggestraat.

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Artist Quinten Stimm - Antwerp portraits

Behind the protective foil of these standardized canvases, the content of hair and refuse from Antwerp vacuum cleaners has been placed in the library as an intervention. By elevating the work of cleaning to a craft, this work of art wants to rethink the definition of Fine Arts within a contemporary context.

   Antwerp portraits - Medium - vacuum cleaner dust and hair from the Dambruggestraat and other street in Antwerp presented like books on the library shelves.

Artists Chun Kao Yi & Matteo Larosa - Transgender

Transgender - Photograph Matteo Larosa

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As we move deeper into the social media world, we perceive a particular strategy to visual biographical narrative in which only the ‘positive’ aspects of our lives are shared. Taking a more naïve stance; one can assume that this is only because we don’t want to bother the rest of the world with the not-so-pretty aspects of our intimacy. However a more critical approach would regard this tendency as a result of a cultural system (within society) of which we are nothing more than a part of the promotion material and publicity – products, which try to sell themselves as close to an ideal as our ability to ma-nipulate images can take us. This façade of ‘perfection’ leads us to a perception of reality that almost seems fictional, devoid of meaning, which only hides the general unhappiness that afflicts our lives.

In my work I try to comment on those aspects of intimacy that have remained ‘intimate’:The disposable, decaying self, that which is deemed as disgusting and shameful because it exposes us, forcing a confrontation with our idealized-always-young (productive, able) virtual self with our ageing and death sentenced selves (obsolescence). By using the hair and matter left behind in shower drains, at the above addresses, I try to reconnect to that simple intimacy that characterizes our non-virtual selves, a nakedness that accepts its ineffability and even finds a certain beauty in its defeat.

For my presentation I deliberately use glass sheets in order to make visible the invisible. It becomes an interface – comparable to looking at photos or paintings or even our own computer or television screens, which are a very potent tools for detachment and desensitisation. What remains on the other side of the glass becomes ‘harmless’ and thus approachable.

Artist Pablo Pineda - Dambruggestraat 313, Zetternamstraat 38, Handelstraat 39, Frans l’arbrelaan 71 en Kruishofstraat

Installation in the Library.

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Artist Emily Kelly - Untitled

This performative artwork involving the systematic epilation of a sculpture. The ritualistic removal of the thread was a metaphorical action about eliminating an inner life force and also captures the futile act of pulling hair out by the root. The performance was painful and personal for the artist; considering that all the threads/hairs were me-ticulously hand-stitched into the torso over a long time by the artist, before being plucked again during the performance.

           

Emily Kelly performing an epilation on her sculpture.

Listening to music of the composers + VJ-performance. (Audience on floor cushions in the library auditorium).

Young Composers - This is not a concert hall.

‘Alap Cyclical Evolution’ Sheila Sanfeli ‘Mets’, Marianna Lii‘On floors’, Vigdis Hans ‘Svierge’, Adam Clarke‘2 studies for Zemiata’ Michael Denis ‘Habitat of Dreams’, Saskia Venegas

Visual Jockey: Dawid Wojtalewijcz

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Inés Ballesteros performing at Een Hoofd Vol Haar.

Artist Inés Ballesteros - Undisciplined bodies

Undisciplined bodies consists of a collection of hairy accessories for places on the body where women are not supposed to have hair. They are meant to be worn proudly in everyday situations, like going to the super market, to a bar or eating in a restaurant. These features are meant to serve as devices for proclaiming the individual acceptance of the natural self and also to confront conventional expecta-tions. These hairy accessories break away from our assumptions that disciplining and controlling the body is the norm.

The beasts are out in the city. Hirsute women ready to break the rules of body policing are following a ritual of self-love.There is no place for the dictatorship of beauty standards amongst so much hair.

Power and Resistance - Video stills: the static quality of hair.

Artist Yang Liu - Power & Resistance.

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Joris De Hondt and Jesus Eloy performing at Een Hoofd Vol Haar. Performance and chalk drawing (6 hexagons, 10-1 suns).

Artist Joris De Hondt - Sqhxocbrd (V1)

PersonA is forced to the ground and shaved by personB and gets tattooed by personC in the public library of Antwerp during public eventX. (6 hexagons) (10-1 suns).

The project “Een Hoofd Vol Haar” was a vibrant effort to bring the multicultural population of the Dam-bruggestraat together through the common interest of hair dressing. Instead of offering comfort or entertainment, I wanted to engage more seriously in the act of hairdressing, used in many cultures as a social ritual, in particular as a rite of passage, such as coming of age. The action should destabilise the time and place of the institutional location of the public library.

Unannounced, I (PersonA) drew a sigil (a square in a hexagon in a circle with 3 bird legs) on the floor with chalk. PersonB, a person in plain clothes, emerged from the crowd and forced me to the floor on the drawn symbol and started shaving all of my hair off while I struggled for freedom. Once I was com-pletely shaven PersonC walked up to the symbol and started tattooing me with a needle and ink on the side of my head. I was held to the ground by PersonB. The tattoo, when finished after quite some time, resembled the sigil I first drew. For a while I just lay where they left me on the floor in a state of shock. I later gathered myself and started erasing the drawing. I collected the hairy remains and threw them in a trash bin.

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Artist Jackson Shallcross-Platt - A lifetime of hair

This artwork deals with captivating aspects pertaining to hair. Hair can be regarded as an element of beauty, but also as a source of waste. Multiple hues and textures of hair were collected from salons in the heterogeneous neighbourhood around Dambruggestraat, thus it also contained the ‘DNA of the district’. During the performance, Jackson’s body was submerged in hair and literally steeped in the precarious connections to beauty and waste. The quantity of hair in the container weighed 5.5 kg, which is approximately a lifetimes worth of hair growth of single person.In the artwork the identity of hair shifts, from beauty to decay and back, because art has associations with aesthetics as well. Finally Jackson cropped his own ponytail; adding his genes to the mixture of hair. He was particularly interested in observing where and when the shift between beauty and waste happens and our relationship as viewers to that shift.

Jackson Shallcross-Platt performing and some admirers.

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Artist Michela Dal Brollo - Study of electrostatic energy

The artist had an interactive performance in which she looked for objects that conduct electricity. This was for example structural architectural elements or clothing made from synthetic fibres and worn by people in the audience. Michaela rubbed her head/hair on these objects and with this action she trigge-red an electric circuit, which connects the electrostatic energy generated by her body to the surrounding elements.

Artist Saoirse Walsh - Untitled

It is common practice for those who identify as a woman, to pluck, shave, wax, or otherwise remove body hair from various parts of their bodies. Many girls start at the young age of 12 or 13 because we are taught in society that female body hair is unfeminine, unclean and unattractive. TV adverts, supermarket displays and boys have told us since we were kids that we need to shave it all off. Female body hair is so taboo that even in advertisements for women’s razors they are shaving non-hairy legs. Hair removal is a cultural norm introduced by patriarchal societies to control women’s bodies. The reality is that women have hair everywhere, face, neck, arms, armpits, nipples, stomach, pubic area and legs. We take a sharp blade to our legs and pull it against our skin, we apply chemicals to our body that burn away the hair, and we pour wax onto intimate areas and rip it away. We shave the entire body in order to conform to these beauty standards and gender roles.

Drawing of the movements to gain electrostatic energy.Michela and Ines performing in the Permeke Library.

Untitled - video stills.

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Artist Leendert Van Acoleyen - Peeping Tom

       Leendert Van Acoleyen performing as ’Peeping Tom’, inside his sculpture while the Godivas crossed De Conickplein. The construction was hanging on the facade at the front of the Permeke Library (and detail).

Artists Hélène Elst and Neal Leemput - Audio Story

Two researchers from the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp made an audio story about hair and identity. Viewers were invited to take a seat under the hairdryer and listen to their story.

Interactive audience participation in Permeke library.

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Chinese community & guests-students from Shenzhen University.

The neighbourhood has a big Chinese community. The artist Liu Yujie, Xie Zihui, Dong Sirui, Ma Xi-aohong, Huang Shuwen en Pan Jing Yi participated with embroideries created from hair, prints and peformances.

Ma Xiaohong, Laser-cut on the library door. Dong Sirui: drawing embroidered with hair as a preparatory process for the final work.

Artist Ivanna Bogenna - Pretty Pressure

The idea of hairlessness being sold as part of social and economic advancement still exists in some ways. It should be a matter of choice to keep or remove your body hair without facing social pressure, but that choice has been removed and we’ve normalised it.Hair isn’t ugly, but we ve taught ourselves it is.

Pretty Pressure - medium Hair and wax.

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The community

• Partners-participants-visitors-audience: more than 400 persons (multicultural and all generati-ons).• Initially it seemed difficult to get cooperation from the hair salons and barbershops. Some bar-bers eventually agreed to close early and also volunteered to ply their trade for free in the library from 18h00. Some Moroccan barbers surprised us by turning up at 21h30 (after they had closed their shops). It was perfect timing because it injected new life into the now dwindling audience. • Multicultural community, local citizen (barbershops and hair salons, visitors to the library, in-habitants from all the streets, refugees, men, women and children of all generations, local schools (all levels), people from other districts, people who knew about the happening via the media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, newspapers and television), disabled persons in wheelchairs, senior citizens and EN-CORA Language school for newcomers in Antwerp.• The blend of curious multi-cultural visitors, regular and novice viewers of art, music enthusiasts, various school learners and community members as well as hairstylists, formed a spontaneous demo-cracy. Effortlessly challenging the question of ‘creative authorship’; because the audience became actors within the artwork and formed a ‘gesamtkunstwerk’ titled Een Hoofd Vol Haar.

Cultural taboos

• It was tremendously rewarding to bring the diverse cultures together so frankly in this event. The harmonious bridging of cultural differences was tangible. We had offered a low-barrier platform where plenty of respect was shown for each other’s background and personalities. There were conversa-tions between people who would never have met, talked or laughed together in any other circumstances. Some persons who are normally embarrassed about their ‘atypical’ ethnicity and ‘wild’ hair admitted to showing it off and celebrating it at this fun occasion.

• Door to door canvassing was done and is good, but some students and even lecturers still found it rather difficult. We encountered numerous cultural and gender prohibitions, taboos, aversions and su-perstitions, concerning hairdressing premises, clients and their traditions and particular belief systems.

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Observations

• Timing and practical organisation results in different cultural concepts concerning scheduling commitment and promises not honoured. Setting up a project like this with many participants – volun-teers, especially from other cultures and countries, with multiple foreign languages and different inter-pretations about ‘tempo and timing’. Unfortunately this resulted in our opening act not being realised. • Exuberance was once again a defining characteristic of the event – occasionally bordering on slight chaos. Management skills and an unobtrusive watchful eye are essential.

The audience

• We need a lot of flexibility. • We agree with the theorist Papastergiadis (2016: 22-26) who proposes that “the South is a cre-ative counterpoint and critical partner to the North”.• Disabled groups: We invited people in motorised wheelchairs to take up important roles in the Godiva parade; their participation provided a lot of pleasure for the participants and audience and will be continued.• Managing the unpredictable/unreliable/no reward/human factor is tricky and needs expertise and tact.• Participation from certain departments from the Academy is improving.

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The Steering team

The heart & engine of the Een Hood Vol Haar at the Permeke library Geert Gielis - CityBart Van Merode - Project managerBruno Arnouts, Marleen en Ben - Permeke LibraryKris van ’t Hof - Art directorBarbara Voets - Publicity liasonCelia de Villiers - Facilitation between artists, art teachers, staff and the public, documentation, artist’s statements and reportsZena Van den Block, Emmanuel De Prycker and Stefan Van Tuyne - Photographs, videos

Artist - Composer Adam Clarke performing with bagpipes.

The City of Antwerp

Geert Gielis, with his enthusiasm and cooperation, played a crucial part in the realization of the project.

The councillor, Lieve Stallaert, of cultural and social matters, was very impressed by our engagement with the local community of Antwerp North and particularly happy with the collaboration between IPIP, AP and the city.

At an AP conference ‘Inspire’ about multi-culturism on 22 February at the Conservatoire some political parties mentioned and praised Een Hoofd Vol Haar as an excellent template for diminishing the distance between diverse cultures.

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The Schools:

Academy and ConservatoireFrom the beginning we saw the need to engage the Conservatoire because of the performative character of the project. This collaboration resulted in a great mix. Opera (the Barber of Sevilla), A Sax horn quartet (to accompany the ginger Godiva), a Bagpipe player Adam Clarke - to accompany a Godiva, Stella and Maria the Greek Mandolin playing twins (with hair braided together), Experimental music by composers Sheila Sanfeli Mets, Marianna Lii, Vigdis Hans Svierge, Adam Clarke, Michael Denis, Saskia Venegas, experienced whilst sitting or lying on cushions in the auditorium and watching a VJ by Dawid Wojtalewijcz. There was entertaining jazz music by Jasper De Roeck (bas), Tom Lambrecht (drums), Harrison Steingueldoir (piano), Lennert Baerts (sax) and Fien Desmet (vocals) for dancing.

The In Situ3-studio decided to open up this IPIP-project to other studios of the Academy. All ateliers were invited to participate. The jewellery department excelled - preparing ethnic head-dresses for parade on the ramp and the subsequent exhibition. Julia Ballardt, student from the Fashion Department, helped with the Godiva costumes, the Theatre Costume Department sent students to the wig-making workshop presented by Eddy Demeyer, a day before the opening.

More students from other ateliers also became motivated after repeated visits and encouragement by Kris. The communications students conducted some video interviews with staff and students involved in preparations for the event.

It seems like breaking into the curriculum is still a very difficult thing. When a project like this is embed-ded in a ‘cross over’ activity or a ‘student participation’ a lot more can happen. There is already more enthusiasm for the parade in 2018 because of the success of the last two events and some departments are coming forward with proposals.

University College & Departmental staff

• The potential has been acknowledged and appreciated by the top management Pascale De Groote (the General Director of AP). She has been pleased with the IPIP-projects and our unconventio-nal contributions. She has mentioned the projects during major public speeches in the past two years. Johan Pas (the Dean) and the City Council are looking forward to, and will support our future project for 2018.• The publicity department and some of the lecturers are ‘buying in’ to our projects. The par-ticipation and enthusiasm from the Conservatoire has increased to the extent that they have already made their own proposals for the Northern Lights parade in December 2018. • Technical assistance by the library staff, the city council and police was excellent.

Conservatoire students and the Sax horn quartet.

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Communication: • LanguageThe Dambruggestraat and the whole area of Antwerp-North is known for its multi-cultural community with many refugees. The latest figures (obtained from Atlas Civic integration centre in January 2018) states that there are 150 nationalities in Antwerp. Due to this the issue of language the barrier between ethnicities, traditions and customs is large! However, the topics of hair, art and music seemed to bridge the language obstacle. Newcomers in Antwerp learn to speak Flemish and our international students try to improve their English - not an ideal match, but this time around it worked!

• PublicityFacebook was good to pass on the ideas in an open sketchbook. But some people don’t use it, so it has limits. There was again (as for the parade in 2016) a page for proposals, ideas and inspiration. This can still be improved! A particular person(s) should be appointed to manage these aspects in future.Our students, nor our staff are not very active on Facebook and Twitter we still need to pay more at-tention to this aspect.• Prime Exposure for the Academy, IPIP, AP and the library and the City was realised.• Posters in prominent places like the city Library, and the Campus ‘Noorderplaats’ were displayed for more than a month. The library promoted the event with a display of appropriate books in their foyer (see image below).• 5,000 invitations were printed and distributed among the community of district 2060, barbers, hair stylists and patrons of the library and Universities in Antwerp.• Antwerp TV featured video interviews daily with Kris for a week before Een Hoofd Vol Haar. During every newsreel a strapline was continuously shown announcing the event. A second interview was recorded with participants and artworks and shown on TV at the end of the newsreel (afternoon and evening). Please refer to the video links mentioned above.• The Academy, the Een Hoofd Vol Haar on Instagram, Twitter and IPIP Facebook pages were con-stantly activated.• The IPIP Website was updated with photographs directly after the event and the report followed early in 2018, a little late, due to holidays and collection of data from all the parties involved. • Some newspapers and magazines published colour photographs and articles before and after the parade (selected examples below).• The Permeke library set up a display of appropriate books prior to the event to promote it.

The promotion display in the library prior to the event.

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20 GAZET VAN ANTWERPEN NIEUWS UIT UW STAD WOENSDAG 29 NOVEMBER 2017S

Kunst

b De noorderlichtparade, eenfeeërieke stoet die jaarlijks doorde straten van 2060 trekt, wordtdeze editie in een nieuw jasje ge-stoken. De Koninklijke Academievoor Schone Kunsten en hetKoninklijk Conservatorium, deinitiatiefnemers van het project,willen vernieuwen en organise-ren daarom nu een artistiek kap-salon voor de buurt, in en rond dePermeke-bibliotheek.

Samenhang creëren“Het initiatief is gelijkaardig. Het

doel blijft nog altijd om de buurtte verenigen en om samenhang tecreëren tussen de buurtbewo-ners, maar dat elk jaar opnieuwdoen met een parade is te eenzij-dig”, zegt Barbara Voets van deAcademie.

Elk jaar trekken de studenten debuurt in om een soort buurt-onderzoek te houden. Zij kiezenzelf een thema om rond te wer-ken. “Dit jaar zijn de kappers in debuurt de leidraad van het evene-ment. Antwerpen-Noord is een

PruikenDe studenten werken nu alle-

maal een eigen project uit. Ze kre-gen deze week ook een workshoprond pruiken maken. “Iedereenvoelt zich op zijn of haar manierbetrokken bij het thema haar. Nie-mand komt graag buiten met eenslecht kapsel. Haar schept ver-bondenheid en nieuwsgierig-heid.”

Verhaal onder haardrogerDonderdag komen alle projecten

samen. Bezoekers kunnen dandoorlopend de haren laten knip-pen op de tonen van een zingendekapper. Verder worden de crea-ties van de kunstenaars voorge-

steld op de catwalk en kunnen be-zoekers zich verder laten verras-sen door Lady Godiva, de Britselegende op haar paard. Twee on-derzoekers van het KoninklijkConservatorium Antwerpenmaakten een audioverhaal overhaar. Dat kan beluisterd wordenonder de haardroger. De heleavond zijn er ook live-optredensop het gratis buurtevent.

Volgend jaar, laat de Academieweten, zal er wel opnieuw eennoorderlichtparade door de stra-ten in de wijk trekken.

i Een hoofd vol haar, Permeke­bib, De Coninckplein, donderdag 30/11, 18­22u

In alle talen en voor elk soort kapsel kun je terechtbij de talrijke kappers inde wijk 2060. Die kappers

zijn nu de inspiratie voor Een hoofd vol haar, een artistiek project van studenten Kunst aan de Academie en het Conservatorium. Donderdag kan de buurt de resultaten bekijken.

Zingende kappers en opvallende kapsels tijdens artistiek project aan Permeke-bib

REBECCA VAN REMOORTERE

“Niemand komt graag buiten met een slecht kapsel”

De Zuid­Koreaanse Minah Park bereidt haar werk voor. Eerder deed ze al hetzelfde in de Verenigde Staten. FOTO'S KIONI PAPADOPOULOS, RR

multiculturele buurt waar ver-schillende nationaliteiten samen-leven. Die nationaliteiten leverenverschillende kappers. Bij elke

“Ik wil zo veel mogelijk roodharigen verzamelen”b De Ierse roodharige studente Conceptuele Kunst Erin Redmond roept andere roodharigen op om donderdag massaal af te zakken naar de Permeke­bibliotheek. Ze wil hen uitnodigen als eregasten. “Ik wil zo veel mogelijk roodharigen verzamelen, zodat we voor een keer geen minderheid, maar wel een meerderheid vormen.” Dat doet Erin niet zomaar. “Als roodharige werd ik vroeger als kind in Ierland heel erg gepest . Zo’n 10% van de kinderen daar was roodharig. Ik vond mijn haarkleur zo erg, dat ik vanaf mijn veertiende acht jaar lang mijn haar in andere kleuren geverfd heb om toch niet ros te moeten zijn. Ondertussen heb ik de klik gemaakt en weet ik dat ik trots mag zijn op mijn haarkleur. Net zoals iedereen trots zou moeten zijn op zijn of haar natuur­lijke kleur. Onlangs deed ik ook mee aan het project I Collect Gingers van de Zuid­Afrikaanse kunstenares Anthea Pockroy. Zij verzamelt al negen jaar lang portretten van roodharigen.” Erin Redmond zelf zal op donderdag tijdens Een hoofd vol haar deelnemen aan de streetperformance waarin ze als Lady Godiva te paard rond de Permeke­bibliotheek rijdt. (rvre)

“In Zuid­Korea heeft iedereen hetzelfde kapsel”b De Zuid­Koreaanse kunst­studente Minah Park maakte 192portretten van bewoners uit Ant­werpen­Noord. Ze portretteertde inwoners allemaal met eensoortgelijk kapsel. Die beeldenworden gebundeld in een grootwerk. “De gezichten krijgen be­wust hetzelfde kapsel. Ik ben op­gegroeid in Zuid­Korea. Opschool moesten alle meisjes eenkort kapsel hebben dat tot maxi­maal drie centimeter onder deoren was geknipt. Daar heb ikvaak om gehuild, want kort haarstond me niet. Daarom ben ikbeginnen na te denken over hoehaar een cultuur kan bepalen.Mijn werk reflecteert over fysie­

ke en gedragsmatige gelijkheid en dat is cultureel bepaald. In een wijk als Antwerpen­Noord zie ik een enorme variëteit aan kapsels en mensen in het algemeen, daar hou ik van. Toen ik nog in Zuid­Korea woonde, stelde ik mij Europa voor als een blanke plek, maar dat blijkt niet te kloppen. Iedereen is hier zo verschillend. Het is niet mogelijk om hetzelfde kapsel te hebben. Hier hebben mensen krullen, sluik haar, korte of lange kapsels in alle mogelijke kleuren.” Op donderdag maakt Minah nog een aantal portretten van buurtbewoners. Binnenkort reist ze opnieuw naar Zuid­Korea om haar werk te tonen. Eerder deed ze al een gelijkaardig project in de Verenigde Staten, waar ze ook kunst gestudeerd heeft. (rvre)

Minah Park portretteert buurtbewo­ners met een Zuid­Koreaans kapsel.

Studente Erin Redmond zoekt roodharigen. “Als kind werd ik gepest om mijn haarkleur, nu weet ik dat ik er trots op mag zijn.” FOTO DIRK KERSTENS

cultuur hoort een andere haar-tooi. De kapsalons in de buurtmaken een belangrijk deel uit vanhet sociaal weefsel”, aldus Voets.

Newspaper articles: Interviews with Minah Park and Erin Redmond.

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Time management:• Students and staff - Art directing is part of the practice, this includes the tactful management of people, not only technical skills management.• Students are learning that curating an exhibition or event also includes good time manage-ment.

Rehearsals – extra rewards: • Students need to check equipment and site beforehand.• Run through the scene in one’s mind beforehand from A-Z.• Student Credits: system to reward works, especially to engage the students from other studios.

Streets – Route and venue:• This IPIP-project of the In Situ3-studio was located in the Dambruggestraat but we connected with stylists and barbershops in many side streets. The four Godiva’s each circled the library on the hour every hour during the event between 18h00 - 21h00. The district community were well represen-ted and involved, becoming a truly democratic poly-cultural audience-actor group. We certainly met the aims of involving the multicultural community.

Godiva, Hilly, passing the front of the Library Permeke at 7 p.m.

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Language school ENCORA: their participation was great!

Staged Events, Sound and Music:

• Multi levels of stage productions and programmes worked well.• Food – Placement, distribution and quality of food can improve.• Cleaning – Library/AP – well organised.

Photographers and videographers:

• It was the job of journalism students - Perhaps more professional assistance next time?• The project with the Community and especially children by Min Park and her assistants.

Nicholas Hanson gave an extra dimension to the event and an opportunity to invite people.

Learning curve:

• Simplicity is the key because of the diverse community.• Students made good work within a low budget.• Minimal, effective concepts work best.• Having a strong theme and definite conceptual material was key to the hair event.• Keep an open mind – and pay attention to everyone who is interested in being involved.• Sometimes initial and even bizarre proposals can be developed into spectacular results.

Educational value:

The event provided training for students: • Art students – In Situ, jewellery, Fashion, Sculpture, Photography and guests from Shenzhen • Adult education• Conservatorium, Music• Teacher Training• Social sciences / work• Visual communication• Primary school children• The migrant community

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General conclusions:

Antwerp – A Multicultural City

Globalization has become irreversible. The extensive displacement of people and ‘diminishing’ distances have caused in neo-nomadic lifestyle trends, which have resulted in shifting ethno-scapes. Therefore, the main objective of this project was to mediate between artists and the diverse community of Antwerp. We intend to continue searching together with the audience and the city management to succeed in de-veloping a good life for inhabitants by creating a dialogue; reconfiguring and reconstructing the histories and inclusion of all its people.

Extra thanks to:

The Hair-dressers & Barbers (2060): Divine Touch, Glen, Kapsalon Mode, Barbershop Philip and JacobAcademie Verbist, for styling the Godiva’s and for the cutting & performance all nightThe Instituut Sint Maria Antwerpen & Encora Hair & Beauty for the cutting & performance all night

Geert Gielis & District of AntwerpenChristel Kumpen, Bruno Aernouts, Eva Naessens, Marleen Hufkens, Ben Bervoets, the staff & security of the city Library Permeke & the City of Antwerpen

Pascale De Groote, the Royal Conservatoire and the Royale Academy of Fine Arts, the Departments Journalism, Communication & management, Voeding- en dieetkunde, Graphic and digital media from AP HogeschoolAäron Wajnberg, Kato Lauwens and all the young artists and performersThe Studios Composition, Horns, Jewellery and In Situ3

Pain d’Anvers, ProspektaAntwerp TelevisionIPIP (In Public, In particular) and the Creative Europe Programme of the European UnionBarbara Voets, Marijke De Bie, Maïté Spraenjers, Celia de Villiers, Bart Van Merode, Kris van ‘t HofPhotographs Zena Van den Block, Emmanuel De Prycker and Stefan Van Tuyne and videographer Ma-yumi Mishida and audience.

Dong Sirui - The British Godiva meets the Chinese Godiva. The embroidery above was created on a silk cloak with the artist’s own hair.

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Student Research texts – Een Hoofd vol Haar (2 May – 11 May 2017)

• Behen M. (ed). 2015. Assessment of Hair Aluminum, Lead, and Mercury in a Sample of Autistic Egyptian Children: Environmental Risk Factors of Heavy Metals in Autism. Cairo:1Pediatrics Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 2National Institute of Standards, Giza, Egypt, 3Community Medicine Depart-ment, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.(Accessed on 15/04/2017).

• Bolzonella, D (ed). 2014. Hypertrichosis (Werewolf Syndrome). Excessive hair growth over and above the normal for the age, sex and race of an individual. https://www.dermnetnz.org/topics/hypertrichosis/ and https://www.hairtransplantmentor.com/what-is-hypertrichosis-2/ (accessed on 13/4/2017).

• Chokoago, N & Ohlert, J. 2017. What does hair have to do with self-acceptance? 5 African-German women on natural hair and cultural appropriation. This article was originally published by i-D Germany 2017. https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/a-badass-feminist-body-hair-manifesto (Accessed on 03/05/2017).

• Hypertrichosis (Werewolf Syndrome) is excessive hair growth over and above the normal for the age, sex and race of an individual, in contrast to hirsutism, which is excess hair growth in women following a male distribu-tion pattern. Hypertrichosis can develop all over the body or can be isolated to small patches. https://www.derm-netnz.org/topics/hypertrichosis/https://www.hairtransplantmentor.com/what-is-hypertrichosis-2/

• Gupta, A. Human Hair “Waste” and Its Utilization: Gaps and Possibilities. Journal of Waste Management, Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 498018. New Delhi: National https://www.hindawi.com/archive/2014/498018/ (ac-cessed on 19/04/2017).

• Netshia, S. The Power of Hair. PowerPoint lecture by a visiting South African academic.

• Papastergiadis, N. 2010. Spatial Aesthetics, Art, Place, and the Everyday. Insitiute of Network cultures. http://networkcultures.org/theoryondemand (accessed on 10/02/ 2016).

• Pergament, D. 1999. It’s Not Just Hair: Historical and Cultural Considerations for an Emerging Technology. Chicago-Kent Law Review Volume 75, Issue 1 Symposium on Legal Disputes over body tissue. Article 4. http://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cklawreview/vol75/iss1/4 (accessed on 18/04/2017).

• Rampton, B. (1999). Styling the other: Introduction. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 3/4, 421–427. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9481.00088

• Rothman, J. 2014. The Meaning of Culture. http://www.newyorker.com/books/joshua-rothman/meaning-culture (accessed on 19/04/2017).

• Thompson, C. 2009. Black Women and Identity: What’s hair got to do with it? Michigan Feminist studies, University of Michigan Library.https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mfsg (accessed on17/04/2017).

• van ‘t Hof, K. 2017. Mission Statement - Hairstyling and Extensions (Working Title), An intermezzo between the 2016 and 2018 Northern Lights parade.

• Wig making and stylinghttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780240813202000184

All the articles and the book by Papstergiadis, were distributed among the students during April and May and again (with new additions) in October 2017 to accommodate particular interests of students.

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References

Bourriaud, N. 2009. The radicant. New York: Lukas & Sternberg.

Bourriaud, Nicolas, Caroline Schneider and Jeanine Herman. 2002. Postproduction: Culture as Screen-play: How Art Reprograms the World. New York: Lukas & Sternberg.

Bourriaud, N. 2002. Relational aesthetics. Dijon: Les presses du reel.

Dallmeyr, F. 2009. Hermeneutics and inter-cultural dialog: linking theory and practice. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3402/egp.v2i1.1937.

Maximilian Mayer, Mariana Carpes and Ruth Knoblich (eds) Ethics and Global politics Vol2, No 1, 2009, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014pp.23-29 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). Accessed on 12/10/2017.

Papastergiadis, N. 2010. Spacial aesthetics, Art, Place and the everyday. Amsterdam: Institute of Net-work Cultures.

Papastergiadis, N. 2016. The cultures of the South as cosmos.The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics Vol 25, No 52 (2016) pp 6-27.

Rampton, B. 1999. Styling the other: Introduction. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 3/4, 421–427. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9481.00088 (accessed on 10/11/2017).

Torreggian, A, Goodacre, J, Bollo A, et al. 2017. Study on audience development. How to place audiences at the centre of cultural organisations. Brussels: Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture. Unit D2 — Creative Europe (Catalogue – Case studies European commission).

Lísa Marý Viðarsdóttir, soprano en Aäron Wajnberg, piano.

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Technical report - Een Hoofd Vol Haar 2017

Please give a numeric answer to the following data needed for the technical report of the Creative Europe:

1. Number of artists/creators that have been promoted by IPIP

22

2. Number of emerging artists/creators that have been promoted by IPIP

56

3. How many creative activities (f. ex. workshops) have been implemented?Please specify:

5 Preparatory workshops

4. How many performances have been implemented?Please specify:

21 At the evening happening

1. Lady Godiva x 4 mini parades with back piper- Sandy Devine, from Mi & Black Africa- Hilly Wagenar, from Azia accompanied by 6 dressed up students from the University of Shenzhen - Erin Redmond, Ginger hair from Ireland- Leila Boukhelif, from North Africa

2. Leendert Van Acoleyen: Peeping Tom3. Kris Van Dormael: Fight & scalping4. Emily Kelly: epilation of a torso5. Conservatoire: Opera songsfrom Il Barbiere di Seviglia Lísa Marý Viðarsdóttir, sopraan, Se il mio nome’

Guðmundur Davíðsson, tenor, Jóhann Óðinsson, bariton & Aäron Wajnberg, piano6. Jewellery department: Hair & extended Jewels7. Conservatoire: Sax horn quartet8. Minah Park: Photoshoot for portret of the neigborhoud9. Hair-dressing schools and hairdressers cutting hair of visitors dressed in capes (E. Olderikert & J. Hong):

- Salons: Devine Touch, Glen, Barbershop Philip, Jacob, Kapsalon Mode, - Verbist Academy- Encora- St. Lukas, with creations shown on the catwalk

10. Conservatoire: Elina en Stella Markatatou & Belgriego ensemble , Greek twins mandolin-violin-cello 11. Conservatoire: Experimental music with ‘This is not a concerthall’ in combination with video (Yang Liu) hair & balloon, about electro-static12. Inés Ballesteros - Undisciplined bodies, performance13. Felix Rapp 2 Jan De Man: ‘Spoiled spoonfulls’ food truck selling Hair in soap14. VJ Dawid Wojtalewicz with projections15. Jackson Shallcross-Platt - A lifetime of hair, performance16. Jazz band: Jasper De Roeck, Tom Lambrecht, Harrison Steingueldoir, Lennert Baerts and Fien Desmet17. Feng Li: ‘hybrid identity’, about achromotrichia an aging process of hair in a divers community18. Hélène Elst en Neal Leemput - ’Hair & Identity’, stories under 3 hairdryers, interactive installation19. Michela Dal Brollo; Study of electro-static energy, interactive performance20. Nicholas Hanson, painting with selfmade human hair-brushes, interactive installation21. Yang Liu - Power & Resistance, video

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5. How many exhibitions have been implemented?Please specify:

1 2-week show reflecting the Hair-happening of 30 November 2017

1. On the special designed/decorated catwalk (Subin Son) we showed the hair-head-sculpture-jewels based on diverse Ethnical backgrounds2. Minah Park - portrait of the neighbourhood (192 different faces from the district)3. Quinten Stimm – Antwerp portraits, installation of hair and dust4. Saoirse Walsh - video the ritual of shaving hair5. Erin Redmond - the Red Head Project, installation6. Chun Kao Yi & Matteo Larosa – Transgender, photograph7. 7 students from Evening Academy - installation and photographs8. Pablo Pineda Ballester - Dambruggestraat 313, Zetternamstraat 38, Handelstraat 39, Frans l’arbrelaan 71 and Kruishofstraat, installation - artworks showed the intimacy via hair trapped in shower drains, collected from neighbours from the Dambruggestraat.9. Nicholas Hanson - Interactive children’s-art installation10. Emily Kelly, epilation of a torso - installation11. Ma Xiaohong - Laser-cut on the library door.12. Ivanna Bogenna - Pretty Pressure

6. How many Street Happenings have been implemented? Please specify:

1 (x4) We had 4 times a different Godivas on a white horse passing through the streets around the Library (starting and ending in the Dambruggestraat) led by Pierre in his motorised wheelchair and accompanied by matching followers. Godiva was outside drawing attention, in the direct neighbourhood of the library Permeke for the event inside. On the square she met the Peeping Tom. These 4 acts/ mini parades were seen at 6, 7, 8 & 9 p.m. and were also referring to the parade of 2016 as well as 2018 to come.

7. How many studies/research/policy analysis/evaluations have been implemented?Please specify:

All the performances were based on numerous research articles, books, performance studies and artists intro-duced to the students (list supplied).

Evaluations were discussed at a closure meeting of the organisers on 17 & 23 January 2018. The students were evaluated during mid-year juries in January.Please refer to the extensive report on the IPIP website. http://ipip-project.eu/project/noorderlicht-een Hoofd Vol Haar.

8. How many conferences/seminars have been implemented?Please specify:

20 Presentations- 2 Seminars - the Encora Language school for new-comers (immigrants and refugees) in Antwerp- 1 Seminar at the School for Children with learning disabilities- 1 Seminar at the hairdresser’s school St. Lucas- 6 Seminars in various studios of the Fine Art Academy - 1 Seminar in the Conservatoire- 1 Seminar in the Elegast Social Club where we also had a photoshoot for the ‘portrait of the neighborhood’- 1 Seminar in the Department of Social Studies & Teacher Training- 1 Seminar in the in the Department of Management & Communication.

9. How many communication activities have been implemented?Please specify:

- Local TV coverage (ATV)- 1 Special feature in ‘Stadsreportage’: https://atv.be/programmas/stadsreportage-%E2%80%98een-hoofd- vol-haar%E2%80%99-kunst-en-kappers-in-2060-antwerpen-52347- 1 Special feature in ‘100% Cultuur’: https://atv.be/programmas/100-procent-cultuur-100-cultuur-29-no-vember-2017-52460- Daily strapline advertising the event during the newsreel for a week

- Newpapers editorials to announce the event and subsequent coverage of the happening.

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10. How many of the activities implemented by your organisation has so far resulted in learning experiences with a view to increasing the skills and employability of the participants (our interpretation in IPIP is the number of workshops)?

We set up a wigs-making workshop for the students from the Hair school Verbist and our Theatre Costume de-partment of the Academy. They were exchanging knowhow and contacts for future collabortions. This workshop was held in the library and the activity drew attention for the happening a few days later.

The educational value in the happening was about tolerance and collaboration reaching across racial, gender and age limits. In addition it was to teach students that art directing, community participation and relational aesthetics are another opportunity for employment in the creative industries. Skills were gained in the crafting of props, sculptures, collaborating with others, management of people and working within a budget and within constraints set by the city council and road traffic departments. The figure could be estimated 400 participants, however it is difficult to commit to a definite number.

11. How many of the activities implemented by your organisation has so far resulted in mobility experiences?

- 1 Student to Turku and 1 to Zagreb- We have sent 2 Staff members to Turku- 1 Staff member from NCAD Dublin

12. What types of individuals did directly benefit from the activities so far? Give a numeric estimation.

a. Artists 78b. Cultural workers (technicians, etc.) 25c. Administrative staff (from the partner organisations) 11d. Culture and specialist experts 27e. Staff from educational institutions 20+f. Students in the field of cultural & creative studies 120g. Staff from local, regional and cultural institutions 13

13. What types of organisations benefitted directly from the activities so far? Give a numeric estimation and an explanation below (list of organisations).

a. Profit making cultural organisations 0b. Non-Profit making cultural organisations 6c. Publicly funded cultural organisations 2d. Non-publicly funded cultural organisations 2e. Schools/universities in the field of cultural & creative industries 6f. Local, regional and national institutions 6g. Organisations situated by the particular streets, for example shops, restaurants and offices 6

14. What was the audience of the project? Give a numeric estimation.

a. General public 400+b. Youth 200+c. Senior citizens 60+d. Students in the field of cultural and creative industries 80+e. Students from other fields of study 20+f. Artists + 150g. Cultural and specialist experts 27+h. Staff from local, regional and national institutions 33+i. Entrepreneurs 15+

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