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State of Mind
State of MindDuration: 07.01.1996 – 04.02.1996 Location: Villa Alckmaer (Rotterdam Centre for Visual Arts),Rotterdam Participants: 46 Visitors: 400 Number of Events: 12 State of Mind (1996) consisted of four weeks and four weekends during which friendship and artists’ work came together in the exhibition space of the Villa Alckmaer centre for visual arts in Rotterdam. Van Heeswijk examined and exposed her way of thinking and working over the preceding several years by showing hospitality to all the people that were important to her – people she worked with, whose visual work or writings had been considerably eye-opening for her, or those who had challenged her in discussions and sometimes heated debates. This villa – with its special atmosphere and its location in the city – ought to be a place to live in rather than a place to make exhibitions. The rooms called for life, for people to talk and exchange thoughts. Moreover, she thought it was a pity that the visual arts centre often only concentrated on exhibiting objects and not on the working and thinking processes in visual art. To her, artists are not islands, and their images are seldom products of an isolated imagination. Works often originate in conversations, quarrels, in response to criticism and fascinations, chance meetings and collaboration. Many of her own works and projects come into being within the context of these kinds of influences. To house State of Mind, Van Heeswijk restored the house’s original functions -- obliterated by the visual arts centre, turning the house into a white cube – and divided it into three parts: private, public and semi-public. She moved all her belongings into the villa to live there for the duration of the exhibition, replacing the normal gallery furniture, office stuff and so on. This also meant closing the exhibition space to the public on weekdays, as well as the second floor, which became her sleeping and working space. In the basement, near the villa’s entrance, the kitchen was reinstalled; next to it a dinner-room was created, which also functioned as a documentation/information room, allowing the public to sit down, have a cup of tea and look through additional documentation, videotapes and music CDs by the project’s participants. On the first floor of the villa a nineteenth-century-styled salon was reserved for discussions, concerts, performances, and so on. On weekends the villa was open to the public, and the friendships and alliances among the guests and their work were exhibited through presentations, lectures and dinners.1996, Rotterdam

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
Jeanneworks/ Contact/ CV Jeanne van Heeswijk/

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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/