Chloé Dierckx
Chloé Dierckx is currently working on a PhD research project at KU Leuven University, Belgium. She focusses on the use of creative methods to disseminate social scientific research.
Work
Ssssh...The Silence Speaks
2023, Mechelen, Belgium
One in a while, everyone longs for silence, but in our current society everything
seems to go faster and become louder. We have become so used to the rush that
sudden silence can be overwhelming, because then then we start to hear the voices
in our mind.
This participative art project brings an ode to silence. Together with visitors of a
public parc we have made a stone mosaic from clay, inspired by stone cairns. This
mosaic is now permanantly placed in the parc. People are invited to leave behind
their worries by writing them down and leaving them inside of the stones.
My earth, four stories from the Kempen
2017, Warande Turnhout, Belgium
This work relates the soil profile of four locations in the Northern part of Belgium (De kempen) to the personal stories of inhabitants of that region. The soil profiles where made of places that carry a special meaning and audiofragments tell about the events that took place on top of that piece of earth: memories about their parents, crashing airplanes, stories about love and seperation, destroyed houses, children games...
(supported by AR-TUR and Warande Turnhout, In the framework of Kempenatlas)
2018
2016, Antwerp, Belgium
This project gives shape to the 'mental space' of the district of Antwerp. By answering a short list of questions, inhabitants and visitors of 2018 Antwerp could express what places are present in their mind. Because they dream about them, long for them, worry about them... Even though these places are often far away, they are -at least momentarily- located in Antwerp. All the answers were brought together on an interactive map that could be consulted in the local library.
Bruin haar bestaat niet
2017, Borgerstein vzw, Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium
'Bruin haar bestaat niet' (Brown hair does not exist) is a series of works co-created in Studio Borgerstein, atelier for artists with a disability.