INTERVENTION WITH TREE HOUSES

An artistic intervention ensures that children, and adults, are activated. It therefore has more impact than just looking at a work of art. Children become part of the process, are set in motion.

An activating intervention is created in close collaboration between the artist and children:

The installation consists of an artistic part, for example an autonomous work by the artist. Children can contribute to the installation in a free, artistic way, for example by adding something.

As a result, there is more and more to discover in the installation.

For example: To get ideas, artist Peter de Boer builds tree houses from cardboard with a small group of children. His paintings, which often feature tree houses, are inspiration. Questions help the children: What do you want to be able to do in your cabin? What do you use this place for? How do you set it up?

Inspired by this workshop, Peter de Boer makes a three-dimensional installation with tree houses. The walls of the space are painted (by the artist) with an empty landscape with different areas to stand on.

The intervention consists of slowly filling this landscape; each child draws its own tree house on paper, chooses a place for this hut in the landscape and sticks it in cut out.

Of course children tell each other or others what they experience there or they play it together.

When the landscape becomes too crowded after a few months, Peter de Boer paints an empty landscape over it.