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A Christmas Pudding for Henry
A Christmas Pudding for HenryDuration: 18.11.1999 – 18.12.1999 Location: Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery, the internet, the façade of the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Participants: 72 Visitors: 600 Number of Events: 30 At the invitation of the Henry Moore Foundation External Programmes in Leeds, Van Heeswijk organised the project A Christmas Pudding for Henry (1999). More than thirty artists and members of the public worked together, on a daily basis, on a portrait of all the aspects of the city of Leeds. The basis for the workshops, fieldwork, presentations and discussions were questions into the nature of the cultural infrastructure of Leeds, which cultural relationships were present and how public space is designed and used. The recipe for a traditional Christmas pudding was the essence of the project. A traditional Christmas pudding takes six weeks to prepare. Just like in the real pudding, different ingredients were used (the artists and artists groups from different backgrounds and disciplines); everyone in the household gave the pudding a stir (all participants gave the project a twist by creating an event); the pudding was simmered in a lot of spirit (critical guests and discussions) and kept in a capsule before being presented on 18 December. The project was displayed on three podiums, none of them inside the Henry Moore Institute itself. The first podium was a work, presentation, and discussion space in Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery, open seven days a week. At this location, between six and eight o‘clock each day, someone presented his or her vision of the city in a lecture, performance, work, or film screening. A website (www.henry-m.org) was the second podium, providing a daily update in the form of a cultural magazine. The third podium was the façade of the Henry Moore Institute. In their commission brief, the institute stated that the project should form a relationship with the city. Van Heeswijk gave form to this by using the prestigious black marble façade as a blackboard, to bring ideas about Leeds and activities in the city to the surface. 1999, Leeds

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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