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Hotel New York P.S.1
Hotel New York P.S.1Duration: 1998 – 1999 Location: P.S.1 Studio New York Participants: 72 Visitors: people visiting P.S.1 on Sundays Number of Events: 15 Additional presentations: Alice Smits continued Hotel New York P.S.1 for one year From 1998 to 1999 Van Heeswijk was invited to represent the Netherlands in the International Studio Program in the P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art in New York. As she always works together with others and her work often takes place outside art institutions, she needed a hotel room to receive guests more than a studio. Inspired by the many travels and extensive emigration from the Netherlands to America in years gone by, she asked artist and designer Dorine de Vos to convert her studio into a hotel room, in the style of the rooms De Vos created for Hotel New York, a hotel restaurant housed in the former headquarters of the legendary Holland-America Line in Rotterdam. In creating this space, the room became an asset to Van Heeswijk’s collaborative network and she developed a cultural Holland-America Line. Over a period of a year, Dutch artists, writers, curators and critics she had previously worked with were invited to stay in the room for a minimum of three days and a maximum of three weeks. Her guests could use their stay to create new work, to explore New York, make contacts, etc. A crucial element of their stay was to examine contemporary issues of migration. In exchange for the stay in the hotel room, the guest would organise lectures, presentations, or an exhibition. A modest idea, but one that had a major impact on the institution‘s framework. As a result P.S.1 deeply resented the project at the outset. Under the contract P.S.1 required all participants to sign, artists in the studio programme had 24-hour access to the studio wing but were not allowed to sleep there or to share the space with anyone else. The exception to this rule applied to participants collaborating with other artists, who could then apply for an extra key to the building. With her working methods Van Heeswijk easily proved a long record of acknowledged collaborations and submitted an extensive list of visitors. She also registered Hotel New York as an art object, a continuous installation. This frame finally provided the necessary identity for both the city of New York and P.S.1 to designate a space between the private and the public – a space were people stayed and met to discuss and to share a journey. Van Heeswijk used the grant she received to stay in P.S.1 to expand her cultural network and to present New York with a broader overview of Dutch creative work and thought. 1998, New York

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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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/