BIK Projects

BIK projects
BIK = artists in schools. Artists developing workshops for the children age 6 till 12. I developed three workshops: one that is about the old believes, told from mythological stories, about sacred trees, Amulets, belief from the north american indians like the dreamcatcher and the totem animal. And the dreamtime from the Aborignal culture in Australia.
A workshop told from the story "The ship that found herself" from R. Kipling. The children hear about al the things on the ship that speak to each other. Imagine that Things like wood or a wheel or nails can speak!!
A workshop told from the story "To the centre of the world" from J. Verne. The children find secred signs and strange monsters and how they can make an abstract painting telling this story in signs invented themselves!!
Workshop Sporen in het landschap/Signs footsteps in the landscape

The students also do this with their travel.The journey that they take every day from home to school. The students start with a drawing that there also as a map will look like, full of symbols.
They discover how they are the picture language of a foreign culture