{"id":2688,"date":"2015-08-26T09:32:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T13:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2015-08-26T09:33:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T13:33:06","slug":"the-keith-haring-lecture-in-art-and-activism-given-by-the-2014-15-keith-haring-fellow-jeanne-van-heeswijk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/?p=2688","title":{"rendered":"The Keith Haring Lecture in Art and Activism given by the 2014-15 Keith Haring Fellow – Jeanne van Heeswijk"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"<\/a>Acts of Political Uncertainty: Towards a Daily Practice of Resistance
\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

When : Tuesday, September 8th, 2015, starting at 6:00pm, open to the public<\/strong>
\nWhere: L\u00e1zl\u00f3 Z. Bit\u00f3 \u201960 Conservatory Building, Bard College<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jeanne van Heeswijk\u2019s lecture will demonstrate\u00a0how\u00a0active forms of citizenship can engage constituencies and communities in critical public issues. Van Heeswijk will describe how the complexities of our cities can be employed as the performative basis for the production of new forms of sociability, collective ownership, and self-organization.<\/p>\n

The Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism is made possible through a five year-grant from the\u00a0Keith Haring Foundation.\u00a0 The Keith Haring Fellowship is a cross-disciplinary, annual, visiting Fellowship for a scholar, activist, or artist to teach and conduct research at both the Center for Curatorial Studies and the Human Rights Project at Bard College.\u00a0The\u00a0Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism\u00a0was established to allow a distinguished leader in the field to investigate the role of art as a catalyst for social change, linking the two programs and presenting original research in an annual lecture.<\/p>\n

Jeanne van Heeswijk is a visual artist who facilitates the creation of dynamic and diversified public spaces in order to \u201cradicalize the local.\u201d\u00a0 Van Heeswijk embeds herself as an active citizen in communities, often working for years at a time. These long-scale projects, which have occurred in many different countries, transcend the traditional boundaries of art in duration, space, and media, and questions art\u2019s autonomy by combining performative actions, meetings, discussions, seminars, and other forms of organizing and pedagogy. Inspired by a particular current event, cultural context or intractable social problem, she dynamically involves neighbors and community members in the planning and realization of a given project. As an \u201curban curator\u201d, van Heeswijk\u2019s work often unravels invisible legislation, governmental codes, and social institutions, in order to enable communities to take control over their own futures. Noted projects include\u00a0Hotel New York P.S. 1\u00a0in New York (September 1998 to August 1999);\u00a0De Strip (The Strip)\u00a0in Westwijk, Vlaardingen (May 2002 \u2013 May 2004);\u00a0Het Blauwe Huis (The Blue House)\u00a0in\u00a0Amsterdam (May \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02005 \u2013 December 2009); and\u00a02Up 2Down\/Homebaked\u00a0in Liverpool (November 2011 \u2013 present);\u00a0Freehouse,\u00a0Radicalizing the Local\u00a0in Rotterdam (September 2008- present).<\/p>\n

Her work has also been featured in numerous books and publications worldwide, as well as internationally renowned biennials such as those of Liverpool, Busan, Taipei, Shanghai, and Venice. She has received a host of accolades and awards for her work including most recently the 2012 Curry Stone Prize for Social Design Pioneers, and in 2011, the Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change.<\/p>\n

For more information on The Keith Haring Foundation\u00a0 – www.haring.com
\nFor more information on the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College – www.bard.edu\/ccs
\nFor more information on the Human Rights Project at Bard College – http:\/\/hrp.bard.edu<\/p>\n

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