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THE GREEN BOX is delighted to invite you: to the Berlin book launch of Jeanne van Heeswijk: SYSTEMS on Friday, 15 February 2008, from 7 to 9 pm at Café Bravo (in the courtyard of KW), Auguststr. 69, 10117 Berlin. Jeanne van Heeswijk as well as the authors Marjolein Schaap and Axel Lapp will be present, and available for discussion over a glass of wine. With the generous support of the Dutch Embassy in Berlin. Please send us a short e-mail, if you would like to attend this launch. Jeanne van Heeswijk: SYSTEMS gives a comprehensive overview of Jeanne van Heeswijk’s socially engaged artistic practice, and at the same time presents models for the design of social spaces as well as directions for the analysis of their structures. The first part is dedicated to games people play, as rehearsals of social interactions, the second part investigates the rooms people inhabit, i.e. the urban structures of social cohabitation, which are the external reference points of social conditioning, and the third part deals with the communities people create as structures of individual, artistic positioning. The works, spaces and strategies presented are documented through rules and drawings, texts and photographs. Here too, Van Heeswijk offers space for alternatives, as anecdotal remarks and comments by the participants create a broad collage of possibilities, producing insights into a wide-ranging field of experiment. With texts by Carlos Basualdo, Marjolein Schaap and Axel Lapp. Design: Anja Lutz Jeanne van Heeswijk (*1965) lives and works in Rotterdam and New York. She is a visual artist who creates contexts for interaction in public spaces. Her projects distinguish themselves through a strong social involvement. With her work Van Heeswijk stimulates and develops cultural production and creates new public spaces or remodels existing ones. To achieve this, she often works closely with other artists, with designers, architects, software developers, authorities and citizens. She regularly lectures on urban renewal, participation and cultural production, and currently works on the long-term projects ‘The Blue House’ in IJburg, Amsterdam. This year, van Heeswijk will take part in the Shanghai Biennale in numerous other international exhibitions. Jeanne van Heeswijk: SYSTEMS 412 | 456 pages (Engl. | Ger./Engl.), 1,200 illustrations, 165 x 230 mm, paperback, ISBN 978-3-908175-04-9 (Engl.) | 978-3-908175-05-6 (Ger./Engl.), Euro 44.- | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For more informationen on all publications of THE GREEN BOX, please visit our website: http://www.thegreenbox.net If you would not like to receive our regular newsletter in future, simply reply to this e-mail with the subject-line 'unsubscribe'. THE GREEN BOX Kunst Editionen | Berlin Invalidenstraße 161 (Remise) • D-10115 Berlin • http://www.thegreenbox.net t: +49-30-92105196 • f: +49-30-92105195 • [log in to unmask] | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |