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De Strip
De StripDuration: 05.2002 – 05.2004 Location: Empty shopping strip, Westwijk, Vlaardingen Participants: 319 Visitors: 48,000 Number of Events: 102 Looking at regeneration plans for the Westwijk, a borough housing 16,000 people in Vlaardingen, Van Heeswijk wondered how residents would be involved in what she saw as a total transformation of its social fabric. In 2001, a lack of funds halted the regeneration project and many properties stood vacant. Approached by the local housing corporation and the city, Van Heeswijk requested the use of the empty shops at the Floris de Vijfdelaan – 3,500 square metres of floor space – and decided to convert them into spaces for cultural production, inviting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Showroom MAMA to participate. Within a few months architect François Xavier Guillon and the construction firm Panagro Ltd transformed De Strip into a complex that could accommodate a diversity of functions. Showroom MAMA shared the former supermarket with artist Peter Westenberg, who developed the ‘Uit+Thuis videomagazijn’, a video projection and production space. Two studios were also built for artists and craftsmen to work in for a period of three months, for free, in return for linking their work to the area and its residents. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen opened an annex in the former greengrocers, exhibiting contemporary art and design. The complex also housed a café, which residents could book for meetings, and a small bookshop. Every three months a new program focusing on local issues would start in all spaces simultaneously, allowing cross-reading of these issues through different presentation forms. De Strip was not intended as an isolated enclave for the arts, but a hub of activities for local residents and others. Organizers sought contact with key community figures long before the opening, all parties were represented at project meetings, and wherever possible everyone’s wishes were taken into consideration. Van Heeswijk assembled a team that would organize and manage De Strip for two years. Opening on 23 May 2002, it initially attracted few visitors, but word quickly spread. Local residents became part of De Strip, as regular visitors or even helping out with its organisation and publicity. People from Rotterdam and elsewhere also visited. According to Michelle Provoost the attention the project attracted opened an unwelcome debate about modernist high-rises. All the clichés about their anonymity, cultural poverty, ugliness, and economic hopelessness were proven wrong. Residents, taking pride in their borough, became less receptive to top-down policies, and outside intellectuals were forced to see and understand these neighbourhoods as more than abstractions. Exactly two years later De Strip had to close its doors. Overnight, the eye-catching red façade was whitewashed, erasing the physical traces of De Strip but leaving an after-image of the community that had emerged.2002, Westwijk, Vlaardingen

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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/