Jeanne van Heeswijk is a visual artist who facilitates the creation of dynamic and diversified public spaces in order to “radicalize the local”. Van Heeswijk embeds herself as an active citizen in communities, often working for years at a time. These long-scale projects, which have occurred in many different countries, transcend the traditional boundaries of art in duration, space and media and questions art’s autonomy by combining performative actions, meetings, discussions, seminars and other forms of organizing and pedagogy. Inspired by a particular current event, cultural context or intractable social problem, she dynamically involves neighbors and community members in the planning and realization of a given project. As an “urban curator”, van Heeswijk’s work often unravels invisible legislation, governmental codes and social institutions, in order to enable communities to take control over their own futures. Noted projects include Hotel New York P.S. 1 in New York (September to August ); De Strip (The Strip) in Westwijk, Vlaardingen (May – May ); Het Blauwe Huis (The Blue House) in Amsterdam (May – December ); 2Up 2Down/Homebaked in Liverpool (November – present); a
Community & Praxis
Her passionate commitment to the field of African Diaspora has led to research on upward social mobility in New York, Amsterdam, and London. Her recent research project on organizational anthropology focused on social entrepreneurship in Black British communities from a postcolonial perspective. She is a board member at New Urban Collective and co-founder of The Black Archives, both Amsterdam.
With works that examine his communal and personal heritage—in particular, the intersection between pop culture and the postcolonial position, Achiampong crate-digs the vaults of history. These investigations examine constructions of “the self” by splicing the audible and visual materials of personal and interpersonal archives, offering multiple perspectives that reveal entrenched sociopolitical contradictions in contemporary society. Achiampong has exhibited, performed, and presented projects within the UK and abroad including Tate Britain/Modern, London; The Institute For Creative Arts, Cape Town; The British Film Institute, London; David Roberts Art Foundation, London; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Bokoor African Popular Music Archives Foundation, Accra;
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Jeanne van Heeswijk
Jeanne van Heeswijk is an artist who facilitates the creation of dynamic and diversified public spaces in order to “radicalize the local.” Her long-scale community-embedded projects question art’s autonomy by combining performative actions, discussions, and other forms of organizing and pedagogy in order to assist communities to take control of their futures. Her work has been featured in numerous books and publications worldwide, as well as internationally renowned biennials such as Liverpool, Shanghai, and Venice. She was the – Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism at Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY; received the Curry Stone Prize for Social Design Pioneers, ; and the Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change, Van Heeswijk was a BAK / Fellow and convened Trainings for the Not-Yet , together with BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. She is the co-editor, with Maria Hlavajova and Rachael Rakes, of Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice (BAK/MIT Press, ). She lives and works in Rotterdam
Jeanne van Heeswijk
Jeanne van Heeswijk is an artist who facilitates the creation of dynamic and diversified public spaces in
Day One: Design and Alternative Process
Jeanne van Heeswijk
(of The Blue House, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Presentation
In her presentation, Jeanne van Heeswijk introduced her current projects, The Blue House (Het Blauwe Huis), which is a “housing association for the mind, a platform for experimental community”. Through this project, she discussed on how to trigger a community to participate in creating a history of their own experimental environment.
Jeanne first reviewed that Netherlands had a long history of centralized planning and large-scale residential development. This tradition makes it difficult for residents to have a say in the creation of their own living environment, let alone to build their own house. Besides that, planning is more and more under a doctrine of mono functionality and segregation, which precludes the possible of civic or community life in any form.
IJburg is also a well-planned, leaving nothing to change. But some qualities such as history, stories, life and beating heart, was not and cannot be planned on the drawing board. Jeanne van Heeswijk took a 3-story building at IJburg, it became the Blue House. It serves as a site f
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