Tracks: artistic practice in a diverse society

How do artists and cultural workers deal with diversity in our society in the workplace?
There is a need for new ways of communicating, new ways of negotiating, new ways of looking, speaking and making. Tracks. Artistic practice in a diverse society has emerged from the conviction that a great deal of experience is being built up today. VTi, Art and Democracy and the art support centres – the initiators of this book – want to make that expertise visible to everyone who can draw inspiration from it.
In 2005 and 2006, An van. Dienderen, Joris Janssens and Katrien Smits closely followed twenty artists and cultural makers, from various branches of art, both individual artists and arts organisations, subsidised or not, from small neighbourhood organisations to large houses, from the city and the province. They talk about the practice of KVS, City mine(d), Kunstenfestival 0090, HETPALEIS, CORDOBA, Kif Kif, Alain Platel, De Krijtkring, Els Dietvorst/Firefly, Union Suspecte, Charif Benhelima, KunstenFestivaldesArts, MuHKA, De Boekenkaravaan, Filmfestival Open Doek and Circo Paradiso/CC Muze.
The book also contains contributions from Pierre Muylle (Wijk up), the media-activist collective VOX, Michael De Cock ('t Arsenaal), Sibo Kanobana (Mobassik) and Ho Tzu Nyen.