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Nieuwsarchief

• Januari 2010

  • Kunstproject Het Blauwe Huis op IJburg is afgesloten
  • The Blue House art project on IJburg is finished

• December 2009

  • Laatste dagen van Het Blauwe Huis zijn geteld

• November 2009

  • Blue Print: overzicht gesprekken december (dd. 15 dec)
  • Blue Printing: december 2009, sluiting van Het Blauwe Huis
  • Brief Daniela Paes Leao
  • Letter Daniela Paes Leao
  • Film Car hotel

• Oktober 2009

  • Blue House Cinema
  • Car hotel
  • IJBOARD poster is klaar!

• September 2009

  • Premiere Soundtrackcity: geluidswandeling IJburg
  • Kinderbibliotheek Leesjeblauw verhuist op woensdag 9 september 2009

• Augustus 2009

  • City Telling IJburg van 10 t/m 12 augustus
  • IJBOARD: het gezicht van IJburg
  • Locating the Producers - Paul O'Neill
  • OUT OF THE BLUE / Biographies
  • OUT OF THE BLUE/ Route description

• Juli 2009

  • filmpjes Air Out Your Dirty Laundry
  • The Blue House goes Out of the Blue
  • OUT OF THE BLUE / symposium tickets
  • OUT OF THE BLUE / program

• Juni 2009

  • IJ-BOARD. De laatste week gaat in!

• Mei 2009

  • Tentoonstelling studenten Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht
  • M7red: Staging Cities

• April 2009

  • Kunstroute Zeeburg: 18 en 19 april van 12.00-18.00

• Maart 2009

  • Reuze periscoop geeft IJburg zijn uitzicht terug
  • Teken de petitie Uitzicht op!
  • Woensdag 25 maart 13.00-17.00: Kunstbus Noordje op Wielen
  • Zaterdag 28 maart: De kunst van het samenleven
  • Het Nieuwe Gezin. Een verslag van Anique Weve
  • Verslag; The (un)making of IJburg
  • Zaterdag 14 maart 15.00: Een 'maakbare' samenleving
  • Hands-on Utopia
  • Uitzicht op! Een nieuwe kijk op IJburg
  • Zaterdag 7 maart 15.00: Ideaal Wonen
  • Beeldverslag filmavond Women Only 12 februari

• Februari 2009

  • Filmpje: Buurtkroket op IJburg door Tilmann Meyer Faje
  • Zaterdag 28 februari 15.00 Rondleiding door de stilte
  • www.zzpijburg.ning.com

• Januari 2009

  • 'Inbraak' op uitnodiging
  • Start A New Art World, Model VII, Vendex Mekka - Ad de Jong
  • Uitzending debat IJburg 28 januari op Salto TV

• December 2008

  • Debat IJburg - De kunst van het samenleven

• Oktober 2008

  • Herdenk de Schipholbrand met ons

• September 2008

  • Rondleiding door de Stilte
  • Public Art Online: The Blue House by David Drake
  • Trailer: Freedom to question by Daniela Paes Leao

• Augustus 2008

  • ZZP Website brainstorm
  • Jongerenproductie: YouthParty 17 augustus 14.00-20.00
  • Jongerenproductie: YouthParty 17 augustus 14.00-20.00

• Juli 2008

  • Workshops voor jongeren op IJburg
  • Workshops voor jongeren op IJburg
  • Nieuwsbrief 25
  • Leesjeblauw met vakantie tot 13 augustus
  • Workshops jongeren: inrichting Productiehuis

• Juni 2008

  • Bonentuin Rudy Luijters
  • ZZP netwerkbijeenkomst

• Mei 2008

  • Radioverslag ZZP verzameling in Blauwe Huis.
  • Onzichtbaar ondernemerschap op IJburg

• April 2008

  • Middenstand op IJburg tot bloei gekomen

• Maart 2008

  • Rap on IJburg

• Februari 2008

  • Radio Ruisriet M2M live!
  • Nieuwsbrief 24
  • Nieuwsbrief 23

• Januari 2008

  • Voorlezen elke laatste woensdagmiddag van de maand om 14.00 uur

• December 2007

  • Nieuwsbrief 22
  • Radio Ruisriet M2M 7 december
  • Spreekuur op IJburg stopt
  • Film: Chill-ROOM
  • Pump off the Blue, 1 december
  • Zaterdag 1 december: Samenhangen
  • Nieuwsbrief 21

• November 2007

  • Radio Ruisriet M2M 23 november
  • 17 november: Vernal Equinox & presentatie lichtobject
  • Nieuwsbrief 20
  • Ruisriet M2M 16 nov: What kills the migrant?
  • ALMOSTyou
  • Waarschuwing
  • Radio M2M 2 november

• Oktober 2007

  • Special Schipholbrand 26 oktober
  • Radio Ruisriet 19 oktober
  • Radio Ruisriet M2M 12 oktober
  • Ruisriet M2M 5 oktober

• September 2007

  • Film Legrain en Beauvent
  • Speciale last minute actie voor IJburgers
  • Programma Autohotel
  • Gezocht: medewerkers Autohotel
  • Filmpje: Autohotel door Olga Russel
  • Nieuwsbrief 19
  • Radio Ruisriet M2M 28 september
  • Filmpje: Identiteitbouwer door Daniela Paes Leao
  • Filmpje Blauwe Huis Cinema door Jessie Vreden
  • Filmpje Autohotel door Bright TV
  • 3 oktober: Peter Faber vertelt geheimzinnige verhalen
  • 22 september: Blok 35 Party
  • Radio Ruisriet M2M 21 september
  • Proeflokaal
  • Moeders’ Mooiste: IJburg in tekeningen
  • Nieuwsbrief 18
  • Just another idea....
  • Radio Ruisriet M2M 14 september
  • 8 september: 'Scene's from the Balcony'
  • Nieuwsbrief 17
  • Radio Ruisriet M2M 7 september
  • 1 september: extra kamer voor Het Blauwe Huis
  • Presentatie 'Atlas of Suggestion' 1-9 September

• Augustus 2007

  • Radio Ruisriet 31 augustus
  • Radio Ruisriet 24 augustus
  • Radio Ruisriet is back
  • 11 augustus: Zomerborrel "Get Connected"
  • Nieuwsbrief 15
  • Sustainable Skybox & Proeflokaal

• Juli 2007

  • Nieuwsbrief 14
  • Leesjeblauw & Bloemen voor IJburg
  • 14 juli: Presentatie Chill-ROOM
  • Film: Two Bikes to Borrow

• Juni 2007

  • The Blue House
  • Opening 'Pump Up The Blue' 2 juni 2007

• Mei 2007

  • Particulier initiatief helpt IJburg aan gemeenschappelijke voorziening

• April 2007

  • (Z)IJ-power: vrouwen netwerken in IJburg

• Februari 2007

  • Sakho schildert trauma van zich af

• November 2006

  • Uitkijkpost - inkijkpost

• September 2006

  • Film: Jong zijn op IJburg door JAA!

• Mei 2006

  • A home for nonconformity
  • Creatieve broedplaats in nieuwbouwwijk

• April 2006

  • Chewing the fat

• Maart 2006

  • Cultuur en ontmoeting in Het Blauwe Huis
  • Teatro del chat, justo para el siglo XXI
  • Rozengeur

• September 2005

  • Mijn kunst is gemeenschapskunst

• Mei 2005

  • Blauwe Huis op IJburg moet broedplaats zijn

• April 2005

  • Jonge moeders

• Maart 2005

  • Brief van Tanja Karreman aan Het Blauwe Huis

• Juni 2004

  • Kunst op IJburg

• Mei 2004

  • Kunst redt leegstaande villa

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IJburg’s Blauwe Huis is a ‘housing corporation for the mind’.

by Marinus de Ruiter

Blok 35 is still surrounded by mud and scattered bricks. From the outside, the apartment complex on the west side of the new residential district of IJburg looks nondescript -until you pass the entrance to the inner courtyard. There, the afternoon sunshine amplifies the bright cobalt blue of a villa standing inside the block.

'It's a bizarre object', says artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, standing beside the Blauwe Huis -as the villa, designed by architect Teun Koolhaas (a nephew of Rem Koolhaas), is called. 'When I first saw the plans for this area, the villa immediately caught my eye and it raised questions. Who would want to buy this and live there?’

With four storeys, a roof garden and a back yard, the Blauwe Huis has plenty of space, but it offers little privacy. Some of the surrounding apartments are less than 10 metres away, and large glass panes on all sides give a floor-to-ceiling overview of its interior. 'It's like a giant peep show', Van Heeswijk says. But there’s nothing to see inside –yet.

The Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst commissioned the Rotterdam based artist to develop a work for the apartment block. She decided her project would be to prevent the sale of her 'found object', the Blauwe Huis. Her aim is to make it into a home for the arts for the next four years, after which time it will be put on the market, as originally planned.

Guests working in all kinds of disciplines will be invited to stay and work in the Blauwe Huis: artists, architects, writers, scientists, perhaps even politicians and lawyers. 'It’s a housing corporation for the mind', says Van Heeswijk. 'We invite people to become members of the corporation, which gives them the right to stay in the house for six months.'The French artist Hervé Paraponaris, who makes site-specific works for public spaces, and Van Heeswijk herself will be the first inhabitants. Participating in the Blauwe Huis can take various forms. With a large scale in mind, artist Filia den Hollander has proposed developing an alternative European constitution. On a more intimate level, artist Rudy Luijters has been asked to design the villa’s 212-square-metre garden.

The Blauwe Huis project fits into the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst’s plans for other IJburg art projects. ‘A new estate like this leads to an overkill of architecture and design’, says Tanja Karremans, a former adviser to the AFK. ‘But there is not much yet that contributes to public life. We’ve invited artists to do just that.’

For inspiration, Van Heeswijk has turned to other famous coloured houses in art history, like Van Gogh's Yellow House in Arles and Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico. 'These were places in which the inhabitants created an image of the world and exchanged ideas’, she explains. A severely planned environment such as IJburg needs places like this, places for nonconformity. They contribute to life'.

The future guests must have one interest in common, Van Heeswijk says. 'We’ll invite people who are investigating new and innovative forms of community building. With the Blauwe Huis, we’re trying to create a platform for them to work, present their ideas, meet each other and start a discussion'.

By becoming part of her own platform, Van Heeswijk is deliberately renouncing the role of curator or director. 'Basically, this is a project without a curator’, she says. ‘It’s set up as a self-organising, self-growing mechanism. I do not support the idea of attaching it to one person, which is something that always seems to happen in art.'

Van Heeswijk stresses the fact that this isn't an artist-in-residence programme, and the Blauwe Huis is not set to become a gallery. 'I hate the word’, she says, ‘but this project can be considered a gesamtkunstwerk -an artwork without a central figure. I guess I'm an old-fashioned idealist. I work with the idea that it is possible to develop new ways of cooperating'.

Since the 1990s, Van Heeswijk has developed several projects on the themes of communication and cooperation. At the moment, she’s rounding off the Stedelijk Lab project in Slotervaart, for which local primary and secondary school students were asked to design a neighbourhood park, using specially designed software and assisted by architecture and planning experts. The park is slated to open in 2007.

Before that, she and inhabitants of the soon-to-be-demolished Crooswijk district in Rotterdam participated in a project called Dwaallicht in which they investigated and preserved the area’s cultural identity through media that included a website and a newspaper.

'The principle of my work is to develop models for researching new ways in which people or groups in society can relate to each other', says Van Heeswijk. 'I would like the Blauwe Huis to function as a public think tank, with the goal of finding new stories, new thoughts. Many people in contemporary society, especially in new areas like (IJburg), are unable to get a grip on their surroundings. I see art and imagination as tools for doing just that, for being of service to society.'