Stepen Willats' Creative Strategies (De creatieve strategieën van S.W.)

Stephen Willats' work since the mid-60s has been characterized
by a theoretical as well as practical concern for a socially
interactive model of art practice. The artist ""documents''
people's lives by focussing on their living and working
environments, yet his work differs greatly from traditional
documentary approaches in that he is neither an ""impartial'',
nor a ""committed'' observer. Rather, the work evolves from a
process of reciprocal participation; the work is constructed as
much by the subjects as by the artist - it is their choices and
statements that become the work's ""message''. Willats' recent
commissioned Dutch projects (made for blocks of flats in the
Bijlmermeer, Amsterdam and in The Hague) are discussed.
Willats'works are displayed as bill-boards and posters in places
were the works were conceived. (Author's Introduction)


Citaten:
Willats, S.: Secret Language (1989)