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Review on #focus meets Malieveld

It was 16 May, a gray somewhat foggy Saturday morning when I took the train to The Hague. There at 11am sharp our next #focus meeting was scheduled. This time there was not a central discussion around one topic but a meeting where we experienced the celebration of visual interaction. I was following the Malieveld meetings online already for a long time but I never before attended myself.

These gatherings -where also you can join in- are held every Saturday between 11am and 12am and started by the artists Ton Schuttelaar en Machiel van Soest. This initiative carries on for quite some time already. Once in a while I checked the photo reports online and every time I was attracted by this idea. Artists that take the Malieveld as stage for their interventions. Today I feel the rain pouring from the sky and hear the traffic of the city. I am alive and maybe a little nervous who is going to show up and what will happen when #focus meets Malieveld.

Below a photo report of an intense experience, an art interaction between colleagues and passersby. It was an exchange of sensitivity and a touch of poetry. The attempt over and over again to reach out for otherness when at the same time being embraced by the environment. It has to happen as- and it happens, right here right now. This is for me what art should be all about, experience it yourself…

Best Edwin Stolk on behalf of #focus