Dwaallicht (Will o the whisp)

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Dwaallicht (Will o the whisp)
DwaallichtDuration: 08.2004 – 06.2005 Location: Nieuw Crooswijk , Rotterdam Participants: 168 Visitors: 1,200 Number of Events: 13 Additional Presentations: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (06.2005-08.2005) Within the next ten years the Nieuw Crooswijk area in Rotterdam will undergo a massive regeneration. More than ninety percent of the social housing dwellings will be torn down and replaced by middle-class residences. Expectations are that ninety percent of the current residents, mainly working-class people of various ethnic backgrounds, will not be able to return to their neighbourhood. Many of these people have lived in Nieuw Crooswijk for several generations. Their identity is strongly linked to the area‘s history. With Het Dwaallicht (The Will o’ the Wisp) (2004), Van Heeswijk and a team of experts researched the links, connections and relationships within the area in cooperation with its residents. For a year Het Dwaallicht wandered through the area seeking out the social web and energies that determine its character and identity and link its different urban dynamics. Based on residents’ stories and past and current events, mystery writer Dick van den Heuvel wrote a monthly chapter chronicling this mysterious search. These stories were then re-enacted in various locations in the area at monthly events staged in cooperation with residents. For instance, musician Paul de Jong composed a piece based on the sound of Crooswijk, which he performed at various venues, from the local butcher’s, to the Asian shop to the Open House, a drop-in and food distribution centre for deprived elderly people. Children demonstrated their vision of the street they lived and played in. There was a guided audio tour of the graveyard, noting memorials to historic figures as well as to beloved neighbourhood residents. Youngsters staged a music and theatre performance around their ‘bad reputation’, and former strangers shared a friendly meal. Even the current residents’ supposedly antisocial nature – a preconception on the part of the regeneration planners – was the subject of an event. These new stories were then distributed through a door-to-door newspaper. Through the accumulation of these stories a ‘new history’ of Nieuw Crooswijk was written and its energy mapped out. Het Dwaallicht tried to capture the cultural history of Nieuw Crooswijk and its residents for the future to create a narrative monument to the community. At the end of the project’s first year Het Dwaallicht wandered for two months in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, telling its story about a lost neighbourhood. This story will be published in a historical novel: Het Dwaallicht van Crooswijk (‘The Will o’ the Wisp of Crooswijk’).2004, Rotterdam, Nieuw Crooswijk

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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/

general
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news
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/