For Sonsbeek 2016 Transaction, Kevin van Braak initiates OXT, a project build on collaboration and exchange. OXT refers to oxytocin, popularly known as the “trust hormone” that upon release increases trust, social attraction, and bonding. Van Braak’s OXT invites 25+ visual artists, designers, and architects to work at a specially designed wood workshop during the exhibition. The workshop itself is erected from trees of Park Sonsbeek. That same wood, chopped for annual maintenance reasons, is available as building material for the participants. Hence, the wood, transformed through transaction, will return to its original habitat. OXT intends to stimulate cross-sector collaborations and socialize the often intensely individual artistic practice. The wood workshop literally opens up to the visitors – through foldable, extendable and adjustable walls – and aims to include them in the creative process in a less distant and more transparent way.

The progress, experiences, impressions, and output of the project can be followed via this weekly blog.

List of participating artists:

Atelier van Lieshout (NL), Rossella Biscotti (I, NL), Daya Bakker en Nicholas Henninger of OFCA (UK), Maze de Boer (NL), Kevin van Braak (NL), Dario D’ancona (I, NL), Sagi Groner (IL/NL), Gabriel Lester (NL), Gert Jan Kocken (NL), Klaas Kuiken (NL), Jasper Niens (NL), Jasper Nouws (NL), Joost Seegers (NL), Kelly Schacht (BE), Kroko Schilte (NL), Floris Schoonderbeek of Weltevree (NL), Marieke Schoonderbeek (NL), Studio simple (BE), Melle Smets (NL), Jair Straschnow (IL/NL), Rob Sweere (NL), Prilla Tania (IDN), Jennifer Tee (NL), Remco Torenbosch (NL), Leonid Tsvetkov (USA/NL), Jasmijn Visser (NL), Sjoerd Vroonland (NL)