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Since March 2022, I have focused on the professionalization of my art practice. As part of a grant for the innovation of cultural business models, I invited Kurt Vanbelleghem from Amy-Art and Present Future to be my coach in that endeavor.
Kurt is a curator, critic, and publisher specializing in the field of contemporary artistic practices. He received a MA in Psychological Sciences and a MA in Art History from the University of Ghent, Belgium, and a Master in Visual Arts Administration from The Royal College of Art, London, UK.
Whereas we initially started looking at my artwork only, Kurt was great at pointing out that the output of my artwork was less important than the methods and dynamics applied. And that these methods were also underpinning my other work in the area of interventions, provocations, and interruptions. In other words, all my work was about similar forms of artistic and aesthetic expression and experience. Kurt set me on a path of better articulation of my ambitions and offerings. It also led to a new vocabulary and a new set of aesthetics to describe and share what I do and why I do it.
I have now consolidated my creative undertakings into Petervan StudioS (plural).
Petervan Studios is the melting pot of three studios: The Art Studio, The Interventions Studio, and The Scaffold Studio. The Studios have the following methods, dynamics, and outcomes in common:
Methods: Collisions – Layering – Activations – Speculations
Dynamics: Translating – Unsnapping – Reframing
Outcomes: Provocations – Experimentations – Collaborations
The three studios share the motivation and desire for societal, moral, and aesthetic advancement.
I just launched a brand new website with all details about the three studios: www.petervanstudios.com .
The Website is designed by WebIt. Thanks, Ruben, Joke, and team for your patience. Thanks also to Peter, Kurt, Janne, and Tijana from Amy-Art for help with the archiving and API integration.
Below is a quick summary of the three studios
Studio-1 Artworks
This studio is the home of Petervan’s art experiments: a mix of analog and digital artwork and productions, writings, poems, installations, video scapes, soundscapes, recordings, documentaries, and time capsules.
Studio-2 Interventions
These interventions build upon my experience and capability as a translator/interpreter of your specific challenges and designer/architect of intellectual collisions. Most of the interventions involve private or semi-private tailor-made provocations and include: Conversations, keynotes, performances, and curations
Studio-3 The Scaffold
The Scaffold is a brand-new transdisciplinary learning studio for the never normal. This unusual learning studio invites participants into a fresh break from the day-to-day. It allows participants to think, sense, learn, ànd act together with a brilliant, curated non-conformist tribe about a specific collective challenge. Not to solve the challenge, but to identify pivotal insights and a new way to position it.
The Scaffold is made possible through strategic partnerships with nexxworks and Collective Next
We also brought together a coalition of exceptional individuals as advisors for The Scaffold. A unique mix of strategists, futurists, engineers, entrepreneurs, experts in classic and contemporary arts, masters in narrative environments, philosophers, licensed architects, and VR developers.
Please let me know what resonates.
Warmest,
Petervan Studios 
What resonates? A lot. Right now it is a wich to slow down and to stop trying to catch everything. Peaceful silence – a healing state of mind…
I’m resonating with Petra’s comment … this is not just a time of year but a time in the world when we’re seeing a lot of people slowing down, and also pulling inward. What strikes me is that consciousness definitely has rhythms, and there are times when everything slows down for a purpose – it’s a time to listen and receive much more deeply than we do when we’re on the go. This means slowing down is not for disconnecting! I imagine the Scaffold as an exquisite place to gather in the slow times, to listen and receive through more dimensions of space and time. The Scaffold is what ‘holds’ us so the personal self can relax. This makes way for the larger creative self to listen in radically new and wonderful ways – this occurs naturally because this is the way of our creative consciousness!
I love your comment that slowing down is not for disconnecting. When I do my “slow art” (like drawing bricks, or other “useless” slow repetitive patterns), I feel I am connecting to another self then I neglected to give attention to. A layer of consciousness that is even more “me” as part of something bigger.