De Stadscollectie Antwerpen is a lively tribute to the artists who give colour to the city of Antwerp. From emerging talent to established names, this collection highlights local creativity but also the global influence of Antwerp’s art scene. Welcome!

Stephen Willats

(c)image: M HKA
Oxford Community Data Stream , 2013
Mixed Media , variable
400 colour prints, 18 channels of video

Oxford Community Data Stream (2013), a multichannel installation that embodies Willats’s commitment to art as a transformative practice, was commissioned by Modern Art Oxford. The project provided the framework for a collaborative process aimed at creating a different kind of ‘new reality’. Here, there is no longer the authoritative determinism of the post-War ‘mixed economy’; instead, an act of interactive speculative modelling performed by people from two very different communities in the Oxford area.