PROJECT IV. Art Story

Towards the end of 2010 a research group will elaborate a pilot project that will introduce a new type of art history. It will be used as a tool in the rehabilitation of detainees. An artist will ask the prisoners to express their vision on famous and less famous works of art through texts and poetical expressions such as images, music, poetry. Dialectics emerging from the intercourse between the animator and the prisoners may lead the participants to consider showing some results to the inmates and the staff or even to the public outside the prison walls. Annemie Van Kerckhoven has been asked to run the first project in collaboration with cultural actors of the city of Leuven. It is most likely that students in criminology and students from the Institute Culturele Studies KULeuven will take the project as topic either for a paper or for a practical experience on the field.