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What to do in Brussels when you're young, gifted and insanely connected

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You exhibit in unusual places and crank up the electronic music - just ask the boys and girls from Plastic. Snippet from the Brussels cafebabel.com blog

Plastic, a multi-disciplinary event showcasing the 'plastic arts' rears its head about six times a year in quirky hotels, old churches and disused breweries. Its organisers have an open submission policy and are as fond of struggling artists as they are of unusual and musty venues.

The artist are all in their mid twenties to mid thirties, and using social media helps them to keep up with what's going on on the Brussels art scene. Plastic has over 3, 300 friends (and growing) on facebook, a network of Brussels visual and audiovisual artists that reads like a who's who of the up-and-coming...

Read the full article 'The Anti-Gallery Brigade' with interviews on cafebabel.com Brussels' official blog

Image: ©Plastic #4 Room 26 by Truc Anh, small image ©Plastic@Gesu 11 april 2009 Room by Versus