In the Field of Players

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In the Field of Players
Duration: 25.01.2004 - 31.01.2004 Location: TENT.Rotterdam Participants: 106 through casting, 260 visitors of TENT. Number of Events: 9 (6 castings and 3 game:sets) Additional Presentations: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; ArToll Labor, Bedburg-Hau; Ludwig Museum, Budapest; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Keg Expo, Schijndel, Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam; Constant vzw, Brussel. The exhibition ‘Friendly Fire’ in the Rotterdam exhibition space TENT. was curated by Edwin Carels as part of the 2004 International Film Festival Rotterdam and invited the public to think about the notion of ‘Power:Play’. At the time the TENT. site was still in use as a school, the central area of exhibition space functioning as a playground for the children. Together with artist Marten Winters, Van Heeswijk developed a ‘game:set’. In cooperation with graphic designer Roger Teeuwen they marked out a set of lines and fields on the floor. Just like in a sporting venue, these lines had no meaning until they were used by the players. The relationship between the players is revealed by the rules of the game. Designer Arienne Boelens created special game cards that were handed out during the festival by the performance artists Bliss. Both Bliss and the cards turned up all over the festival and could be found at every hot spot or special event. Through these game cards people where invited to fulfil the various roles in the game – like ‘Round Miss‘ (the girl who walks around the ring holding up a numbered card at the start of each round at boxing matches), ‘Man (40+) in (high) cultural position‘, ‘Teen girl with star ambitions‘, ‘Vital 65+‘. But there was also ‘Whisperer‘, and even ‘Audience‘ was a specific role. During the film festival players were selected through a daily casting process at the Doelen venue. The crisis centre, where only professionals normally hang out, was also open to the general public. After the selection there were three game:sets on 25, 28 and 31 January in TENT.’s central area. The audience members who had not been cast also become participants: eventually they were the ones who defined the underlying relationships of the players, their positions and the unspoken rules of the game. This fostered a tension that said something about the complex processes of social relations. Even the cameraman filming all three events had a specific role and was only allowed to move along the line set out for him. The specific character of each of the three game:sets was captured in a video installation, displaying how the audience sets the mood of the game and gives it a meaning. The video work was shown in exhibition in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the Ludwig Museum and Witte de With, among others. 2004, Rotterdam

Presentation at Witte de With Rotterdam

Presentation in Ludwig Museum Budapest

projects
De Strip/ Freehouse/ From the Sidelines/ Room with a view (Dissonance)/ Room with a view (Positioning)/ Room with a view (Real Stories from Life)/ Outside Livingroom/ I + the Other. Art and the Human Condition/ Until we meet again/ A House for the Community/ NEsTWORK/ State of Mind/ Break. Dance./ The Secret City/ The world is bigger than Schijndel/ Hotel New York P.S.1/ Valley Vibes. The Vibe-Detector/ Water walker/ Welcome Package Welcome Stranger/ A Christmas Pudding for Henry/ Under the Spell of the Ring/ Subway to the Outside/ Wish for a Coffee/ Acte de Présence - Sans Valeur/ Draw a line/ Raising a Ruckus/ Casco-Mobile/ Z.T. (Duurzame Versterkingskunst)/ A Paper House/ Face Your World/ Beyond ethics & aesthetics/ Room with a view/ Room with a view (Private)/ Room with a view (Annex)/ Room with a view (Longing)/ Room with a view (The Neighbour)/ The Office/ Casco, Coffee and Communication/ In the Field of Players/ The Dinner/ The Blue House/ Face Your World, StedelijkLab Slotervaart/ Dwaallicht (Will o the whisp)/ Works, Typologies and Capacities/ Some 7/ Ariadne/ Narratives of Desire/ An Sich/ Brain Storm/ Amnesia of a Landscape/ Care-Taker/ Fields of (inter)action/ Shelter-07/ Face Your World, Museumpark/ You and the City. Diaries of a Future Avant-garde/ Shanghai Dreaming, Holding an Urban Gold Card/ It runs in the Neighbourhood/ Talking Trash/ Buiten Post/ The Resistance of Small Happiness/ Public Faculty No. 1/

essays
Networks, faces, membranes/ Creative Urge, annex a Zeal for Improvement/ A House for the Community/ Principles of Hope/ Germinal/ Freehouse/ Conquest/ The Miracle of Gorinchem/ In The Field of Players/ The Artist as Versatile Infiltrator of Public Space/ Noem mij maar gewoon een portretschilder/

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Exhibition 'Reality 10'55 Odense'/ 'Some 7' at exhibition in RAM/ New website Jeanne van Heeswijk online/ Lecture at the NAi, Rotterdam/ Design Staalmanpark receives green light/ Kunst RAI 2006: 'Games People Play, Chapter 1'/ Exhibtion: 'Play! The Art of the Game' / 'Narratives of Desire. Realities Odense' in Arnhem/ 'Cascomobile' at the Busan Biennale/ Project presentation 'Care-taker'/ Visiting Scholar at Hunter College NY/ KONTROL #1 is online now/ Lecture at the MCA in Sydney/ 'FYW' nominated for Citizen Participation Prize/ Exhibition 'Room with a View' at Axel Lapp Projects/ Lecture at Architectural Association in London/ Evasions of Power, Sesion 4: 'Interventions'/ Symposium DEAF07: 'Interact or Die!'/ 5 projects at the Architecture Biennale Rotterdam/ 'Socially Yours', Seminar Hong Kong/ Kunsthal: Presentation 'FYW Museum Park'/ Presentation 'Systems' and 'Works, 1993-2007'/ 'Ariadne' moves to Sint-Oedenrode/ 'Memory Knight' at Art Rotterdam 2008/ International presentation ´Systems´/ 'The Urban Game Show' at the NAI/ Premiere 'It runs in the Neighbourhood'/ 'Narratives of Desire' at Axel Lapp Projects/ Breakfast lecture at the Design Publico Week / Fields of (inter)action at Venice Biennale/ New work coming up at 2008 Shanghai Biennale/ The Market of Tomorrow/ Women beyond the Verge/ Public Faculty no.1/ RAM opens 2010 with Citizens' Tales/ Nominated for Award for Participatory Art/ Talking Trash 13 April - 29 May/ Publications Jeanne van Heeswijk for sale/