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Subway to the Outside
Subway to the OutsideDuration: 03.1999-07.1999 Location: Public space and Artist Space, New York City Participants: 45 Visitors: People watching Manhattan Neighbourhood Network and those visiting Artist Space Number of Events: 3 TV series, 3 debates, 2 exhibitions. Additional Presentations: Empires without States, Swiss Institute, New York, (11.11.1999 – 10.01.2000) Subway to the Outside (1999) was a project for the non-profit exhibition space ‘Artist Space’ in New York. Artist Space has a long history of showing young emerging artists, like Cindy Sherman and Matt Mulicann, for the first time. In 1999 Artist Space turned 25, and Van Heeswijk was asked to produce a work in connection with this anniversary. In light of how artists choose to work in contemporary art – many artists work outside institutional frameworks, they prefer the city as working domain – she thought it would be interesting to ask where the artists‘ space (the space of the artists) was located at that moment in New York City. Formally, Subway is a TV show, a map, a discussion and an installation. The ‘subway’ was chosen as a metaphorical guide to involve people in New York, both the general public and the cultural world, in an empirical and ontological dialogue concerning the nature of art production and the place of cultural activity, and to explore the idea of ‘artist space’ in the context of a cultural capital. Armed with a camera, a microphone and the simple question ‘Can you show me the way to artists’ space?’ Van Heeswijk and Martin Lucas travelled through the streets of New York. In addition, they asked fellow artists to show their own way to ‘artists’ space’. The project turned into an ongoing attempt to look at what the idea of an ‘artist‘s space’ means in the context of New York City. At the heart of the project was a desire to connect an understanding of the city as a shared cultural environment with real perceptions of urban life and the interactions between citizens and the institutions that surround them. The search resulted in three television documentaries broadcast on Manhattan Neighbourhood Network, a local cable network, three discussions in Artist Space and an installation in the Swiss Institute in New York. The latter is a collaboration with Hervé Paraponaris. For this project Van Heeswijk collaborated with Samantha Coerbell, Beth Coleman, Laura Cottingham, Chico Garcia, Kristin Lucas, Martin Lucas, Joseph Di Mattia, Maydayproductions, Hervé Paraponaris, Tom Poole, REPOhistory, Saskia Sassen, Gregory Sholette, Tere Spain, Carol Stakenas, Ellen Stewart, James de la Vega, World War III Illustrated, Martin Zet and various members of the audience. 1999, 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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