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art & music from the heart of the United States

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Foreword 5 Introduction Travels through the Heart of the United States of America 7 Opening concert Woven Hand Dave Eugene Edwards’s carte blanche 10 Scott Hocking Walking Detroit, The Motor City 12 John Weeden The Memphis Attitude 13 Maarten van Rossem on City Folk and Countrymen in the Heartland 14 Ad van Meurs The Travelling Watchman 16 Hardland/Heartland Selection of print works from Us Doves 18 Jeremiah Day Road trip through the Heartland 20 David Olney sings in two voices 21 Matt Bakkom Minneapolis: Silent Streets, Big Names 22 Heartland Programme in Eindhoven 24 Alec Soth Artist in the Middle 26 Ron Linker on Obama’s Heartland 29 5SPVXMBBU[JDIWBO[µO Miss Rockaway Armada crosses the ocean 30 NU Ernest C. Withers Photo exhibition 32 6 WEKE Marjetica Potrč Possibilities in post-Katrina New Orleans 34 HPFELPQFLBOU[JFO The Decay of Urban America N Carol Jackson 36 Trouw is een kwalitatieve compacte krant die betrokken is bij de samenleving. Die oog heeft voor TROUW Heartbreak Hotel On the Origins of a Legendary Song 37 wat er werkelijk in de wereld gebeurt. Die waarde hecht aan diepgang en persoonlijke ontwikkeling, Matthew Day Jackson Location is Everything 38 waarbij levensbeschouwing, zorg, onderwijs & opvoeding en natuur & milieu een belangrijke plek LOW Final concert Heartland 40 innemen. Een krant met idealen. Een krant van deze tijd. Nu tot 10 oktober 2008 héél goedkoop. VOOR 5 Greely Myatt Home is where the Heartland is 42 Ga naar www.trouw.nl/6voor6, vul de bon in op pagina 2 of bel 088 0557557. 6 Smart Museum of Art University of Chicago – Heartland, 2009 44 Colophon 47

Deze aanbieding is geldig tot 10 oktober 2008, en geldt alleen indien u de afgelopen 3 maanden geen proefabonnement op Trouw heeft gehad. The city of Eindhoven plays host for three months to art and music from the heart of the USA. Heartland is an interdis- ciplinary project focusing on the art and music of the geographical heart of the United States of America: the so-called Heartland. As a visitor, you will be given a fascinating introduction to an unknown part of a very well known This magazine presents the programme for Heartland, the first inter- country. During the Ameri- disciplinary project by the Van Abbemuseum and Muziekcentrum can presidential elections – when there is a great Frits Philips, addressing a (inter)national audience. The project marks deal of US political cover- the start of a close cooperation between these two institutions that age in the Netherlands – will result in a series of major exhibitions and events in the coming the Heartland experience months and years. offers a different perspec- tive, concentrating on The international, southern region of the Netherlands is one of new, cultural insights into the United States. Europe’s top economies. With the establishing of Brainport and the High Tech Campus, and the international and attractive diversity Heartland consists of a of cultural institutions, the region offers an appealing climate for group exhibition feat‑ people and businesses to settle. The Van Abbemuseum and Muziek- uring existing and newly centrum Frits Philips take the lead by presenting topical exhibitions, commissioned works in the Van Abbemuseum concerts and debates that aim to exchange ideas with you, and together with a musical explore the cultural riches and the social challenges inevitably as- programme in Muziek‑ sociated with them. centrum Frits Philips in Eindhoven. It will also Heartland is a logical and noteworthy start to this collaborative en- include debates, lectures, terprise. The Heartland of the United States has long been a cradle a photo exhibition, publications, and an artists in of important developments and movements in both music and art. residence programme. With the American presidential election process about to reach its climax this November, every vote will count in the swing states of The Heartland project is this region. The outcome of the American election will have conse- an ambitious collabora- quences worldwide. Heartland probes beneath the surface of voter tion between the Van behaviour, disclosing its reasoning and creative roots. Abbemuseum and the Muziekcentrum Frits Philips, and the Smart We warmly welcome you to attend the festive opening of Heartland Museum of Art at the on Saturday 4 October 2008, and to visit the many other Heartland University of Chicago as activities in the following months. We look forward to meeting you an American partner. in Eindhoven!

Wim Vringer Director Muziekcentrum Frits Philips

Charles Esche Director Van Abbemuseum

5 Travels through the heart of the United States of America

Research travel Mississippi. Photo Charles Esche, 2008 Church in Alabama. Photo Charles Esche, 2007 Taco Bell in Arkansas. Photo Otto Berchem, 2007

Welcome to the Heartland, deep in the How it all began… Netherlands. For three months, the city of The Heartland project grew out of two simple observations: one based on the relationship between the Netherlands Eindhoven will play host to art and music and the USA, the other related to the Van Abbemuseum from the heart of the USA. Within the pages and the Muziekcentrum. Firstly, we wanted to do a creative of this magazine, artists, thinkers, musicians, project in Eindhoven, which coincided with the timing of and Dutch experts on American culture will the US presidential elections. For many Dutch people, the USA is an attractive and still mysterious country that has a introduce you to our programme and guide considerable influence over our cultural and political lives. you through a rich and fascinating part of Although we hear a lot about what is happening in New the world. To complete this mental journey York, Hollywood, and Washington D.C., there is a degree we invite you to come to Eindhoven, in our of ignorance about the cultures and places between the coasts, which in fact make up the majority of the United own Dutch Heartland, where the exhibitions, States. We wanted to offer people another look at the cen- concerts and performances at the tre of the USA – the Heartland – at just this historic moment. Van Abbemuseum and the Muziekcentrum We hope to offer you an idea of its current culture, people Frits Philips will lead you northwards from and landscape in ways only possible through the creative the tropical climate of old New Orleans to work of artists and musicians.

the industrial decay of central Detroit. Secondly, the Van Abbemuseum and the Muziekcentrum are based in what could be described as the “Dutch Heart- land” of Eindhoven and North Brabant. The museum also has a long history of collecting art from the United States, beginning in the 1960s. The museum was the first to show artists such as Andy Warhol and Bruce Nauman in the Nether- lands, playing a significant role in establishing local interest

7 Research travel Illinois. Photo Otto Berchem, 2007 Clanton, Alabama. photo Otto Berchem, 2007 Louis Armstrong Parc in Louisiana. Photo Otto Bertchem, 2007 Overton Park Shell in Memphis. Photo Kerstin Niemann, 2007 research travel Tennessee. Photo Otto Berchem, 2008 Research travel Illinois. Photo Charles Esche, 2008

in such work. In the 1990s, the museum switched its attention We often travelled together as a curatorial search party, What you’ll see now… Our research as a curatorial team will continue over the to the west coast and collected Mike Kelley, Jason Rhoades which allowed us to share our different perspectives – At the Van Abbemuseum, a body of work will first introduce coming year, further extending the impact of the project. and Paul McCarthy. *If you continue your exploration in shaped by our backgrounds as two Europeans and an the region via the Mississippi River, and from there guide We have begun to talk to many of the colleagues we have the museum after seeing Heartland, you will discover more American based in Chicago – learning collectively about you into the exhibition galleries on a journey northwards met during our travels and together are exploring the about this history in our Living Archive exhibition. In terms the region’s complexity. We met artists, fellow curators and through this heart-shaped territory. Along the way you will possibility of linking a series of conversations, events, and of Heartland however, this background made us curious people interested in the cultural life of their own cities. This encounter work by artists who represent several generati- exhibitions around this Heartland region, in different com- about the zone between the east and west coasts. We won- led us to make extraordinary discoveries: breaking into ons and different approaches to art-making. This includes munities and cities during Autumn 2009. dered what was happening within this huge geographic an abandoned automobile factory in Detroit with Scott newly commissioned works from artists who we asked to area that was so little represented on Europe’s cultural map Hocking, to see his work using material he finds on site, investigate the Heartland region, as well as others produ- Through its many-layered collaborations, Heartland offers of the world. This curiosity led to our first visit to the region, and meeting with Dan Peterman and Theaster Gates at the ced in the Netherlands during the last 15 years. All of the you the opportunity to experience different forms of cultu- travelling by car from New Orleans to St. Louis along the amazing Experimental Station in Chicago, which brings project’s art and music respond in some way to the texture re from and about this region, not only through contempo- Mississippi River. of this region, by individuals originating not only deep wit- rary art but also echoes of the region’s renowned musical hin the Heartland, but also from other parts of the United traditions. We hope that this magazine, combined with the States and Europe, thus paralleling the insider/outsider other elements of the Heartland project, will tell you a new ‘the area that Mark Twain once called perspectives of our curatorial team. story about America; one that complements your existing knowledge of the region with many surprises. “the body of the nation”’ We also included a room in the Van Abbemuseum that presents a sampling of independent initiatives that support Charles Esche, Director Van Abbemuseum Kerstin Niemann, Research Curator Van Abbemuseum the creative work of artists. These initiatives range from Stephanie Smith, Director of Collections and Exhibitions and Curator of together people from contrasting communities who live new, small-scale, artist-run enterprises like KKProjects in New Contemporary Art, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago The significance of music to the Heartland of the United next door to one another. In the south, we were inspired Orleans and Percolator from Lawrence, Kansas; to fabled Frank Veenstra, Artistic Manager Muziekcentrum Frits Philips States is even more obvious, and the Muziekcentrum Frits by Marjetica Potrč’s proposal for a new Republic of New residency programmes like Grand Arts in Kansas City; as Philips has developed a dynamic programme of music ran- Orleans, a work she created in response to the destruction well as established artist-run spaces – the Soap Factory in ging from the south to the north of the region. The art and of Hurricane Katrina. We also encountered Greely Myatt in Minneapolis, for example. These schemes provide alter- music collaboration in Heartland also allows each Eindho- his studio, where he twists rural Mississippi traditions while natives to commercial structures and help knit together ven institution to present a small example of each other’s working midway between the site of Martin Luther King, the creative communities within the vast and dispersed specialism. Thus there is a vibrant photography exhibition Jr.’s assassination and a monument to the founder of the Ku Heartland region. in the Muziekcentrum and a number of music performances Klux Klan. In Omaha, we saw the latest version of “Whoop in the Van Abbemuseum. Dee Doo” – a sophisticated, hugely entertaining variety And where it may go next… show that mingles artists and local talents, presenting Just as this first presentation of Heartland is inspired in part Since that initial trip, we have journeyed to Chicago, everything from performance art to tap dancing. These by the Van Abbemuseum’s history, its role within Eindho- Detroit, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Omaha and elsewhere, revealing moments laid open something of the history and ven, and its European context, the final incarnation of the focusing on the area that Mark Twain once called ‘the body specific flavour of each place. In making the Heartland pro- project will respond to its next home at the University of of the nation’. As one source of orientation, we chose the gramme, we have tried as much as possible to bring these Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art in the Fall of 2009. Chicago Mississippi River, with its rich social, economic, and cultural experiences back to Eindhoven and share them with you. is one of the largest urban centres within the Heartland history and as a second, the Midwestern states. To envision region and deeply tied to the area’s rural environment in this territory, it is perhaps easiest to imagine a heart shape the midst of the United States. stamped on a map of the United States, with its southern tip at New Orleans, stretching in the west to Minneapolis and in the east to Detroit.

8 9 Opening Concert The Gold Rush brought not only European Woven Hand immigrants to the “New World” but also Dave Eugene Edwards’s Carte Blanche the development of the dynamic, white music, known as hillbilly.

A curious name, linked nonetheless formed the find Alternative Country try, while simultaneously even more curiously to the basis of what became one (also known as Alt.Country), enriching the mix with – Netherlands. Tradition has it of today’s great commercial with Neil Young as its godfa- rather curiously – the ‘Dutch that Billy, as in “Hillbilly”, was genres: Country Music. ther who has inspired gen- mountains’ sound of Zapp. King Billy – William Henry erations of lo-fi musicians Frank Veenstra is artistic manager at of Orange-Nassau and Gramophone records since the Woodstock era. Muziekcentrum Frits Philips Eindhoven. Stadtholder of the Dutch helped spread popular Opening concert Heartland: Republic – who reigned music on a large scale from Dave Eugene Edwards and Woven Hand, Muzsikás & Zapp String Quartet, afterparty with Clare over England, Scotland and the start of the twentieth his band, 16 Horsepower, & The Reasons. Ireland from 1688 to 1702. century onwards, but it was appeared on the scene in 04/10/2008, 20:15, Muziekcentrum Frits At this time, many Scottish not until the 1920s that the the mid-1990s with a distinc- Philips. Entrance € 15 + admin. fee. and Irish immigrants were industry started taking an tive variant of Alt.Country. Tickets: www.muziekcentrum.nl (040-2442020), www.ticketservice.nl settling in the Appalachian interest in hillbilly music. You could call it a kind of (0900 300 1250), and the official sales Mountains (the hills), and Uneasy about the hillbilly ‘Country noir’: a mix of locations. spoke constantly of their epithet (an insult on par traditional Folk, Americana, king, Billy. This moving with ‘white trash’), record Country and Alternative caravan of people trans- executives invented the Rock larded with lyrics ported a colourful pal- term ‘Country’ to market the about sin and redemption. ate of European musical product better. The genre Edwards now purveys his influences. Amongst these enjoyed a meteoric rise, pensive music under the you could hear the Irish with celebrities such as the name, Woven Hand. During fiddle, the Italian accordion, Carter Family, then Hank the Heartland opening eve- sounds of the waltz and Williams and eventually the ning, Edwards will be add- polka from the dance halls ‘hillbilly cat’, Elvis Presley. ing a new ingredient to his where the newly formed Country became the vox personal Country elixir. For “hillbillies” would hold their populi of white America. his musical, Carte Blanche, musical entertainment after As for many musical styles he is collaborating with the a week of hard labour. The emerging from the melting Zapp String Quartet from best baladeers and fiddlers pot of the Heartlands, Coun- the Netherlands and Hun- showed off their virtuosity try has sprouted countless gary’s leading folk group in contexts ranging from offshoots. One extremity of of the moment, Muzsikás, medicine shows to vaude- the firmament is occupied whose Outlaw Song he has ville productions. Dismissed by Nashville – dominated covered. The performance by big city sophisticates, by Country Pop stars such is a once-off cooperation these communities together as John Denver and Dolly in which Edwards is seeking with their homespun music Parton. On the far left we the European roots of Coun-

10 11 Dave Eugene Edwards. Photo: Ruud Lips Scott John Hocking Weeden

Scott Hocking, Ziggurat, Detroit, 2008 Scott Hocking, Skylight Forest, Detroit, 2008 RISK, Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee, 2008. Photos John Weeden

I’ve never liked the term “Heartland”. It’s been used in Walking through Detroit, on the other hand, became much “So…then…why the hell did you come to Memphis?” Could it be the overwhelming sense of authenticity that America as a marketing tool and political buzz word for more to me. I never minded how long it took, and I loved still resonates just under the pavement here? Perhaps it’s so long it makes me cringe. exploring details that I had missed while whizzing by in a This was my first reaction upon hearing an accented voice the utter lack of pretension amongst the majority of this car. Going along the railroad tracks or into abandoned requesting a meeting to discuss a most peculiar sort of exhi- place’s citizens – people that have never had much, so It conjures up images of working class, denim-decked areas of Detroit became my nature walks – the closest I bition. I was intrigued by the premise, an indexical mapping have grown accustomed to making do. Or, maybe it’s the Marlboro men having a Budweiser after work; commercials could come to a hike in the woods. I found solace in mas- of the contemporary art practices within the vast interior distinctive Memphis manner, the raw unpredictability of its for pick-up trucks with country rock soundtracks; cornfields sive, empty factories and overgrown neighbourhoods, and of the country, including a featured focus on the current art character, constantly in flux – a mysterious state of per- and cows, even George Bush himself. The word alone doesn’t beauty in the decay and transformations there. I’ve had ecology of our own hometown. petual curiosity, chicanery, exuberance, despair, gentility, bother me. It’s kind of pretty, really – a Heartland sounds like a motor vehicle for many years since then, but I still prefer swagger, scepticism, passion, and a certain sort of ‘the hell a strong and beautiful place. But, it has been simplified into walking to work sites, like the one documented in the Heart- Until a few years ago, it was largely uncommon to meet in- you say’ defiance? a stereotype. In reality, the Heartland combines the Midwest, land exhibition. It’s not impossible to live in Detroit without ternationals interested in contemporary art here. Sure, there the Great Lakes, the Great Plains, the Rust Belt, the Bible Belt, a car, but it isn’t easy either. It all depends on how much were always the tourists that came for Elvis, and to walk the Reflecting this mercurial mix, the Memphis art landscape and the Mississippi Basin. Its part Dust Bowl, part Appalachia, time you’ve got. streets in the birthplace of the blues, but art? Doubtful. Con- has always been an eccentric patois of the ordinary and part North, part South, and everything in between. Heart- temporary art? Unfathomable. the outrageous. Outside the traditional fare of conservative landers are as diverse as the landscape. It’s hard to imagine Wherever I go, my artwork is influenced by the history commercial galleries and encyclopaedic museums, a cer- what America’s Heartland means to people in other coun- and people of that place. Often I am responding to being And yet, within the past 5 years a steady stream of creatives tain rebellious, ‘damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead’ ethic tries. Or if they even know it exists. either inspired or bothered by what I find. In Detroit, I have from around the globe have made various exploratory has driven our most compelling new art practices. Musicians worked with abandoned industry and former sites of na- forays into our hinterlands, wondering what lay beneath in the city have also continually contributed to the dyna- As an artist, I am interested in forgotten places and things tive earthworks, knowing that I am somehow collaborating the myth of their music heroes. When they speak of their mism of the local art scene with their emphasis on experi- kept out of sight, out of mind. I spend a lot of time explor- with thousands of others who once lived or worked there, Memphis meanderings they tend to use hushed, excited mentation, rapacious urges of exploration, and borderline ing my surroundings, hunting for and gathering informa- used the materials I now find, and built the vacant struc- tones, having discovered some intangible “feeling” in pathological obsession for both the artful and the arcane. tion, images, and materials. I spent three years without a tures I now work with. Although I am influenced by the past, Memphis unlike anything they’ve experienced elsewhere; car in Detroit. I walked, biked, bummed rides, and rode specifically how humans interact with nature through histo- something of the intimately familiar and the surrealistically Memphis is the end of the earth in so many ways that it is the bus. Life slows down without a car in the Motor City. It ry, I am equally affected by current events. When I imagine foreign within the same instant seems to almost breathe in daunting to even attempt a definition of its demeanours. is a driving city, and it’s very hard to find everything you how our time will be viewed in the future, I am simultane- the air around them. The most extraordinary phenomenon is Within the same heartbeat we tend to love you ecstatically, need within walking distance from your home. Sometimes ously excited and frightened by where the world may be that, almost without exception, they seem to never want to and yet to not even give a damn. This town with mud in its it could take me two hours to reach the same place by bus heading. I try to present viewers with issues I believe are leave. In fact, many now return on a yearly basis for weeks veins and blood on its hands will keep making art as if its life that would take twenty minutes in a car. I learned to be important and things they might have overlooked, such as at a stretch, determined to deduce the root of their hopeless depended on it, because, ultimately, it does. patient and meditative while waiting for and riding on the ideas of learned beauty and/or ugliness. attraction to the ineffable, insatiable soul of the city. bus. John Weeden is a freelance curator in Memphis, Tennessee, where he also works as Executive Director of the Urban Art Commission. Work by artist Scott Hocking (lives and works in Detroit, Michigan) is on view in What is it that seems to be calling them? What is it about the Heartland exhibition in the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. our little town halfway up the Mississippi River that intrigues those from beyond the sea? Why is this rough and tumble town suddenly so compelling to those engaged in decid- edly more sophisticated pursuits than barbecue cooking contests and Rock n’ Roll nostalgia tours?

12 13 vidualistic and democratic as it is, was forged. It was a land My own family is an effective demonstration of the aston- of independent ranchers, of men and women who lacked ishing cultural contrasts between metropolitan America the urban sophistication of the coastal cities but had their and the inhabitants of the Heartland. A niece of mine lives hearts in the right place, stubborn but honest. Even today, if in a fashionable suburb of Boston and is married to an we are to believe the statistics, people in the Midwest work Australian who has been in the computer industry since the harder than in the other regions. year dot. Both of them are occupied with ethics and highly progressive; in Holland they would no doubt vote Groen Slave-owning was banned very early on in the Midwest, Links (‘Green Left’). My niece sobbed with disappointment and the Ohio River was the traditional boundary between over the phone when Bush was re-elected in 2004. Although Maarten slavery and freedom. The Midwest was thus spared the I was upset, it was nothing compared with her sorrow; it shame of slavery – that awful birth defect which marred the was their Head of State, and there was nothing they could face of the great American Republic. do about it. van RossEm Her sister, my other niece, lives in an attractive suburb of City Folk and Countrymen Columbus, the capital of Ohio. She is married to an Ameri- ‘The Heartland is can who hails from working class roots in Cleveland. It is a in the Heartland background he has left behind him: he studied chemistry, Maarten van Rossem in debate at the Van Abbemuseum, 4 July 2008. Photo: Bram Saeys everywhere; and and prospered in the 1960s and ‘70s. He is highly intelligent and wide awake to political issues. But he has not lost the basic cultural equipment of the Heartland, or in his case urban Americans perhaps of the Midwest: he owns two rifles and several pistols. I am convinced, by contrast, that my Boston niece occupy mere has never touched a gun. My Columbus nephew-in-law votes Republican for lack of anything better, for he consid- The Great American Heartland is clearly a mythical region. ers himself a Libertarian, opposed to further government islands within it’ involvement in the social sphere.

Some people define the Heartland as that part of the USA Many a researcher of sociology has sought the essence The immense differences that exist between Columbus, of the United States in the Midwest. Middletown, which where traditional values like individualism, hard work and Ohio and Boston, Massachusetts (not to mention the Nether- has famously figured in several research reports, is in fact lands) and between members of the same family who live Muncie in Indiana. Is the Midwest then really identical to the a fear of God survive intact. Others see it as the cradle and in different areas of the United States, are illustrated by the Heartland, from the viewpoint of culture and history? I am following incident. I was relaxing with my wife and daugh- breeding ground of the religious and political obscurantism unsure about this. I would rather return, cautiously and by ter in the garden of my niece and nephew-in-law in down- way of my personal observations, to the wider definition town Columbus. They have a splendid vegetable patch at that has kept George W. Bush in the presidential saddle for given at the beginning of this article. the bottom of the garden. Suddenly there was a commo-

the last eight years. tion: there was a groundhog – a largish American rodent If you rent a car in Manhattan and drive north, it will take – in the vegetable patch. What a cute animal, my daughter hours before you finally escape the megalopolis. With the said, but my nephew’s reaction was quite different. He city behind you, you will probably feel surprised at the commanded my niece to fetch one of his rifles. An execu- The Great American Heartland is clearly a mythical region. trying to give my own sharper definition of the American countryside of upstate New York, so thinly populated by tion was imminent. My daughter protested in horror and Some people define the Heartland as that part of the USA Heartland. The effect may be to sap the mythical aura, but West European standards. If instead you turn off in a wester- announced that she would leave immediately if they were where traditional values like individualism, hard work and this will be compensated by a gain in geographical and ly direction and follow the southern part of New York State, to shoot the poor groundhog. Fortunately, the ground- a fear of God survive intact. Others see it as the cradle and historical clarity. you will soon realize that you have left modern, metropoli- hog scurried off before a major family row ensued. To my breeding ground of the religious and political obscuran- tan America and are entering the mythic Great American nephew, our concern for the rodent was incomprehensible. tism that has kept George W. Bush in the presidential saddle The USA has traditionally been divided into four fairly clear- Heartland. This is the home of the Republican voter, where Pleasant though the family reunion had been, culturally for the last eight years. The ‘some’ and the ‘others’ just re- cut regions: the Northeast, the Midwest, the South and the people go to church on Sundays and where the 1950s have speaking, we are still miles apart. ferred to are, respectively, Republicans and Democrats. The West. Each of these regions has a subtle but recognizable never stopped. Somehow the American countryside often

Heartland consists from this viewpoint of those states which identity. The Northeast and to some extent the South are seems more uncompromisingly rural than in a country like It seems that the culture of sentimental city dwellers is likely invariably light up in Republican red during TV election- the cradle of the Republic. The South itself is by far the most the Netherlands. to prevail over that of the pragmatic hunters (or murder- night broadcasts. Looking at American election results problematic region because of its history of slavery and ers?) of the Heartland. The small-town conservative world from recent years, it is striking how the Democrats have the Civil War, evidence of which remains to this day. If the A similar phenomenon occurs in another typically Blue that defines the Heartland is doomed to vanish. It may take prevailed, with only a few exceptions, in the states that USA differs strongly from the nations of Western Europe, state, Massachusetts. As a whole it is America’s most pro- a while, however, for rural America is immense. line the ocean coasts; similarly, with only a few exceptions, the difference lies in the (unattractive) characteristics of gressive state, but that progressiveness is determined by

the Republicans hold sway in all the states between them. the Southern states. The West has a certain fairytale aura, the huge urban conglomeration of Boston. Driving west- Professor Maarten van Rossem teaches History at Utrecht University and One interpretation of this fact springs readily to mind: which can be associated with the tragic fate of the native wards, you soon leave metropolitan America and enter specialises in the history and politics of the United States. there are two Americas, an extroverted modern one and Indians or with the swinging beach culture of golden Cali- the Heartland. Perhaps the Heartland here is not as pure as an introverted traditional one – a contrast corresponding fornia. The Midwest, finally, consists of the states from Ohio that of rural Kansas, but it remains instantly recognisable. almost exactly with a coastal or inland situation. The reality to North Dakota and from Michigan to Kansas. Back in the The Heartland is, in other words, everywhere; and urban is as always more complicated, although it is not entirely Nineteenth Century, these states formed the wild frontier Americans occupy mere islands within it. unrelated to the sketchy analysis just given. I will start by where the fundamental American national character, indi-

14 15 The destination was Ponca City in the north of Oklahoma. That’s where the Heartland of the USA starts – that great unknown America stretching all the way up to the Canadian border. Our gig was at Webb’s World of Fun, Ad which would soon turn out to be a euphemism for a grimy, dilapidated slum. For the moment, getting there was what mattered.

It was late October, still A strange euphoria settled In the light of the next day, with an audience of witches, van warm, typical Indian Sum- over me. It took a while we passed one village after serial killers, ghosts and mer weather (oddly, the before I could place the feel- another, every one of them suchlike. It was Halloween, 31 best song about that was ing, but then it came back to reminding me of places in October! Of course, I could written by a Frenchman, Joe me. In my school days in the my boyhood countryside. place the scene in my memo- Dassin in his L’Été Indien). Just Netherlands, I used to cycle There was Pawhuska (let’s ry: Carnival gigs at Hotel before nightfall, with the car to school in Helmond, pedal- call it Elsendorp) where a de Kroon in Gemert, in 1963 windows wound down, we ling daily through De Peel cop literally lurked behind and subsequent years. Our cruised into Oklahoma. The – a large area of swamps, every bush, waiting to hand act then was a rough and Meurs surroundings grew gradu- heath and peat-bog, part of out speeding tickets; then ready one; we were a band ally emptier – something which is now De Groote Peel came Hominy (could that of ruffians and desperados, we couldn’t really see on National Park. Later, I would be Zeilberg?) with its plastic loud-mouthed and overcon- that moonless night, but we traverse the same landscape stand-ups of Indians on a fident. could feel it. Apart from the at night, riding a moped hill, followed by countless headlights of occasional with friends on our way back miles of nothing. In the far During the intermission at oncoming vehicles, the from a party in one of the distance we could see cattle Webb’s, I stood looking only signs of life were tiny region’s far-flung towns – – or were they buffalo, who out through the door. Rain pinpricks of light at immea- Venray, Asten or wherever knows? At last we rolled into was gushing down and surable distances. It was like – to our home in Gemert. As the oil town of Ponca City. people were dashing to and being in a space capsule, inhabitants of the province (Where? Let’s say Deurne.) from their cars, yelling and soaring over some far-off of North Brabant, we proud- The town centre had opted laughing drunkenly like only planet, in some remote gal- ly called ourselves ‘brabo- to remain stuck in the 1920s. American girls can. I felt at axy. The lukewarm breeze, hippies’, the easy riders of De Like dusty cowboys, we peace with myself. Was this as old as time itself, washed Peel. I remember one of our crowded into an antique my homecoming? No, that through the car. favourite groups, CCC Inc., radio station where there would be saying too much, descending on the district to was a no less antique DJ. but I counted my blessings. ‘we proudly perform at a farm in Neer- It was the first time he had I was playing guitar in a kant. Now those were real met Europeans face to face. group. My bike ride through called ourselves hippies, from distant Amster- Can you pay for things in De Peel had not yet come to “brabo-hip- dam – then another planet dollars there, he wondered, an end. altogether. Well, it was that and he’d love to see our pies”, the easy sensation of being at one passports because nobody Ad van Meurs is singer-songwriter (also known as The Watchman) with nature, surrounded by has one in Ponca. Who riders of De and is currently working together an endless horizon, with an needed it? with Ankie Keultjes and filmmaker Peel’ unknown but tempting future Dré Didderiëns on the documentary Searchin’ for the heart of the before me: that was what Later, in Webb’s World of Heartland, which will premiere on overcame me as we hurtled Fun – a place I could write a 08/01/2009, 20:15, Muziekcentrum through the night in Osage book about and maybe one Frits Philips Eindhoven. County, Oklahoma. day I will – the club filled up Entrance € 15 + € 1 admin. fee.

16 17 De Peel in Noord-Brabant (the Netherlands). Photo: Picasa-webalbums Collage of pages from Us Doves (by) Hardland/Heartland, WE: AA | CQ | ETC, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2008. Jeremiah Day Road trip through the Heartland

My friend and I used to joke about the ‘It is this tion – an independent po- magic can of beans cooked on a fire litical structure dedicated to precise mix electing African Americans under the stars on the roadside. Somehow, of promise to political office. This story like in On The Road by Jack Kerouac, such has been largely ignored moments emanate with wonder and ful- and disap- within most histories of the civil rights struggles, except filment. Sitting there, maybe on a log or pointment that the symbol for the LCFO a piece of wood, looking out at the night, that marks was a black panther – an each time I drove cross-country I would icon taken on by the much the Heartland’ more famous Black Panther look out (at a rest-stop in North Carolina, Party of Self Defence. My a small park in Grand Junction, Colorado) My project for the Heart- project for Heartland is an and think: “I could just stay here, give up land exhibition concerns exploration of the LCFO – its my plans and choose this instead.” But Lowndes County, Alabama legacy, its contradictions, its – a place that is simultane- memory. At the end of the joke is, after all, it’s just a can of beans. ously a “nowhere” and the Dharma Bums, a spirit comes ‘America, that is the name of my unhap- location of world-historical to Kerouac and tells him his piness,’ Kerouac wrote in Visions Of Cody. political events – making mission is to remind people that they are essentially It is this precise mix of promise and disap- Lowndes a dramatisation of the conditions we all free: how to connect this pointment that marks the Heartland. live with everywhere. In vision with Lowndes County Lowdnes, at the beginning Freedom? of 1965, no African Ameri- I’ve been to the Heartland Bush Sr. presided over the cans were registered to Work by artist Jeremiah Day (lives and works in Amsterdam) is on view in Western Massachusetts, end of the Cold War and vote because of a complex in the Heartland exhibition in the Van Upstate New York, and two announced the “New World system of violent harass- Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.

hours drive north of Los Order”, the farmers in Mon- ?ment and intimidation Angeles. But the Heartland tana saw through it instantly. that stood in their way. The is not just the non-urban, It was one thing to defend area was known by civil non-suburban – the meanest freedom, but altogether rights workers as “bloody ghetto of St. Louis, Missouri, another to propose running Lowndes”, due to the sever- where the libraries were the world. These farmers ity of repression there. Some closed and the city even were part of the good in the civil rights community stopped collecting garbage old-fashioned American thought to make a kind of for a while due to a lack of democratic-republican tra- example of the area – if funds, that too is the Heart- dition, and recognized that they could challenge white land. I remember an image imperialism was the main supremacy in Lowndes, they from ’91 or ’92 – a sign on the threat to self-government. could challenge it any- side of the road in Montana: The important critics of US where. So that same year ‘Fuck the New World Order.’ imperialism and the “police- activists from the Student The first people to recognize state-ism” that goes with it Non Violent Coordinating and criticize globalisation were not from California or Committee and local lead- were in the Heartland. When New York, but from Montana ers formed the Lowndes the American president and Wisconsin. County Freedom Organiza-

20 21 Research travel Illinois. Photo Charles Esche, 2008 David Matt Olney Bakkom

David Olney Downtown Looking Up (Minneapolis from my roof), 2008. Photo Matt Bakkom

If you listen to David Olney’s records you will hear two by VPRO – so high they quickly cancelled the programme). Growing up in Minneapolis it seemed to us that anything first sixty years of its existence, the city was based on the voices. There is a growling, macho voice in which he The programme was called Sunday Morning Coming Down, was possible. milling power harnessed by the Mississippi’s only waterfall, sings about drug dealers, desperados and swindlers, and a sweet girl with bright blue eyes drew my attention coupled with its centrality as a point of shipping and pro- and a soft, charming voice in which he sings about love, to a David Olney song called, Saturday Night and Sunday That adolescent enthusiasm must have been rooted in the cessing. By the early 20th Century that heyday had passed, be it passionate or purchased. It is always, however, Morning. Wouldn’t it be a good idea to have him sing it live full spectrum of seasons descending yearly; or maybe a but the cooperative ethos and tendency toward self-initi- unmistakably David Olney. on the programme? David sang, and went. The girl with blue middle class civic pride that defined city politics, much as it ated effort that underpinned the city’s practices remained. eyes stayed forever. does now. This was compounded by our distinct geographic Minneapolis continues to flourish in new and unexpected David’s musical palette has more colours than any other position, midway between the coastal capitals of New York ways. singer-songwriter, apart perhaps from Randy Newman. He David has a charming disdain for logistics and side issues. It and Los Angeles. Sure we were stuck in the middle, all the shares with Randy the literary talent to crawl into someone is no coincidence that his managers and agents are always way at the top of the river, but the expansive canopy and a An essential truth of that pioneer moment was that survival else’s skin and give a voice to that personality. The ‘I’ in his female: he likes to be mothered. If nobody looks after him he dozen lakes made up for what our quiet streets might have was in the hands of the community, and only after that, songs is hardly ever David Olney himself, unless (I assume) in is quite capable of getting a train from Schiphol to Arnhem – lacked. making progress. The most effective way to achieve goals his most intimate love ballads such as If My Eyes Were Blind. just because he has been there before – and ride from there was by working together. The independent artists, groups, The ego figure might be a French prostitute in the First World to Amsterdam. He can’t be bothered to check the map. It helped that I came of age in the golden era of a music studios, labels, spaces, zines, cinemas, and audiences that War, or a petty swindler from two thousand years ago who Maybe it’s in his nature, because he is totally focussed on his scene that was simultaneously local and global in scope. have followed the blush of my teenage icons continue to wonders about Jesus Christ and his amazing tricks that have music; when the microphone is in front of him, he performs The Suicide Commandos had introduced punk rock in the demonstrate this simple premise. A complete list is too long set everyone talking (in Jerusalem Tomorrow, favourite of with the same intensity whether it is for a football canteen or Midwest in the mid-‘70s. Prince followed and flowered. The for this entry but current highlights include Skoal Kodiak, Dutch cabaret artist, Freek de Jonge). Sometimes the a concert hall. Replacements and Husker Du, among many others, blos- Black Corners, Art of This, Arts Review and Preview (ARP), River protagonist is not a person at all but an iceberg awaiting a somed through the 1980s. When I first travelled in Europe in Projects Authority (RPA) and The Minnesota Artists Exhibition fateful encounter (Titanic) or a humble donkey bearing Christ He has cut many records since he moved from Rhode Island 1987, these were the names that came up when I mentioned Programme, to name just a few… into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday (Brays, my own favourite). to Nashville, and since he broke up with the X Rays, deciding my hometown to hip strangers. The idea that artists who to go solo. He has barely ever disappointed, and forces his you knew from the neighbourhood were reaching audi- Matt Bakkom is a member of the artist’s group, The New Kinomataghraphic Union, whose work is on show in the Heartland exhibition in the Van Abbemu- Part of David’s fascination as a writer is that he draws on listeners to attention. If you don’t listen you will miss a lot, ences around the world, inspired a confidence that art from seum, Eindhoven. such a diversity of sources for his subject matter, including and that’s not all. I am always inclined to tell people in the Minneapolis could make a mark. Participating in this flow cheap thrillers, biographies of painters, adventurers and audience to shut up if they chatter while someone is per- seemed then, as it does today, to be an everyday activity film stars, The Bible and the newspaper sports page. When forming. If anyone talks while David Olney is singing, how- with unknown and limitless potential. singing Vincent’s Blues, he is not speaking of Van Gogh in ever, I would have them taken out and shot. the Mississippi Delta. Through all his music, you can hear the Somewhere underneath it all, was an element I would later voice of a true storyteller with an impeccable feel for the Jan Donkers is radio-maker for the VPRO, and an independent critic and recognise as the legacy of our recent frontier past. This year, writer. Heartland Café: David Olney & Tommy Womack, 20/10/2008, 21:00, right word. I have often seen David perform. The first occa- Grand café Meneer Frits in Eindhoven. Entrance € 10 + € 1 admin. fee. For a Minneapolis celebrates its 150th anniversary as a city. For the sion was in 1994, when I had a Sunday morning radio pro- discount on multiple Heartland Cafés, you can buy the Heartland Café Card. gramme (it drew the highest audience ratings ever polled See www.muziekcentrum.nl.

22 23 Programme

GENRE DATE TIME ACTIVITY LOCATION PRICE

ONGOING e 04/10/08 – 25/01/09 see vanabbemuseum.nl Heartland exhibition Van Abbemuseum € 8,50 (discounts see vanabbemuseum.nl) e 04/10/08 – 14/11/08 see muziekcentrum.nl Photo exhibition Ernest C. Withers Muziekcentrum Frits Philips free entrance with concert ticket

OCTOBER e, c 04/10/08 from 15:00 Official opening Heartland Van Abbemuseum free entrance c 04/10/08 20:15 Opening concert Heartland: Muziekcentrum Frits Philips € 15 + admin.fee* Woven Hand, Muzsikás & Zapp String Quartet Afterparty with Clare & The Reasons c 06/10/08 21:00 Heartland Café: Ben Weaver Meneer Frits € 10 + € 1 admin.fee locations & reserVations lc 10/10/08 20:15 Listening course Introducing the Heartland I Muziekcentrum Frits Philips € 9 + € 1 admin.fee c 20/10/08 21:00 Heartland Café: David Olney & Tommy Womack Meneer Frits € 10 + € 1 admin.fee muziekcentrum frits Philips lc 23/10/08 19:00 Listening course Introducing the Heartland II Van Abbemuseum € 9 + € 1 admin.fee Heuvel Galerie 140 f 26/10/08 14.00 Heartland film I (see heartlandeindhoven.nl) Van Abbemuseum free entrance with museum ticket Eindhoven Information & reservations: NOVEMBER + 31 (0)40 244 2020 c 03/11/08 21:00 Heartland Café: Meneer Frits € 10 + € 1 admin.fee [email protected] Boo Boo Davis Mississippi Blues band Opening hours: 05/11/08 09:30 – 12:00 Election Brunch Van Abbemuseum € 18,50 Mo–Sa 12:00–17:00 P, e 07, 08, 09/11/08 see mu.nl Miss Rockaway Armada and MU Stroomhuis free entrance during concert nights: c 10/11/08 21:00 Heartland Café: Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart and Meneer Frits € 10 + € 1 admin.fee one hour and fifteen minutes Tim Easton & Leeroy Stagger before, until fifteen minutes after l 16/11/08 14:00 Lecture by Jeffrey Foucault Van Abbemuseum € 15 incl. museum ticket start of a concert c 17/11/08 21:00 Heartland Café: Jeffrey Foucault Meneer Frits € 10 + € 1 admin.fee Van abbemuseum f 30/11/08 14.00 Heartland film II (see heartlandeindhoven.nl) Van Abbemuseum free entrance with museum ticket Bilderdijklaan 10 Eindhoven DECEMBER +31 (0)40 238 1000 l 08/12/08 21:00 Heartland Café: Lecture by Peter Guralnick Meneer Frits € 10 + € 1 admin.fee Opening hours: f 28/12/08 14.00 Heartland film III (see heartlandeindhoven.nl) Van Abbemuseum free entrance with museum ticket Tu–Su, 11:00–17:00 Th evening until 21:00 JANUARY f 08/01/09 20:15 Film: Searchin’ for the Heart of the Heartland Muziekcentrum Frits Philips € 15 + € 1 admin.fee grand café meneer frits c 22/01/09 20:15 Final concert Heartland: Low & Special Guests Catharinakerk € 15 + admin.fee* Corner Markt / Jan van Lieshoutstraat f 25/01/09 14.00 Heartland film IV (see heartlandeindhoven.nl) Van Abbemuseum free entrance with museum ticket Eindhoven

stroomhuis

Eindje 1 Eindhoven e = exhibition, c = concert, lc = listening course, P = performance, f = film, l = lecture

catharinakerk *Tickets: www.muziekcentrum.nl or 040-2442020 and Ticket Service: 0900 300 1250 (45 cpm), the 151 larger postal offices, the 100 larger Kerkstraat 1 Free Record Shops, the 33 GWK-Travelex offices, the 11 larger VVV offices, www.ticketservice.nl and the official sales locations.

Eindhoven Other concert tickets: www.muziekcentrum.nl or 040-2442020.

www.heartlandeindhoven.nl For a discount on multiple Heartland Cafés, you can buy the Heartland Café Card. See www.muziekcentrum.nl. http://heartland.vanabbe.nl Programme subject to change

24 25 Alec Soth Artist in the Middle

As an artist in America, it is just assumed that you live on the East Coast or West Coast. The great middle is just sort of forgotten. But the Mississippi river runs nearly the entire length of the country and has a number of impressive cities on its banks. It is an important part of the country and deserves to be recognized as such. Alec Soth, Peter’s Houseboat, Winona, Minnesota, 2002. Courtesy: Gagosian Gallery

In some ways, the term Somalians in the country. set of pictures about every- seems especially powerful. “Heartland” conjures up a If you go a little south to day fashion where I live in I prefer to drive when I’m nostalgia in me. The word Iowa, you’ll find a significant Minnesota, working only working on my own mate- suggests something whole- Mexican population. The with regular folks. The way rial, and only take planes some and pure. I think of Midwest is rich, complex I see it, fashion is about the when I do magazine jobs. wheat fields, baseball and and not easily understood way you present yourself to There is so much freedom in apple pie. It sounds like a by simple generalities. the world. Wether you are driving. I remember when television show from the a supermodel or a farmer, I took my first serious road ‘50s. A lot of people on the The idea of place is abso- you are making some sort trip along the Mississippi. I East and West coasts, and lutely essential to my work. of fashion statement. got to the river and I had possibly beyond, might A while back, I worked with to make a choice: I could still think of the middle of my agency, Magnum When I was starting out, I go right (up the river) or America this way. But it is Photos, to produce an was deeply influenced by left (down the river). You much more complicated entire magazine on the the ‘70s colour photogra- certainly don’t have that than that. Like other places, subject of fashion – with phers like Joel Sternfeld, kind of freedom when you there is poverty, crime, Paris as the obvious starting Stephen Shore, and William get to the security line at an racism and so on. But the place. But the whole time Eggleston. But now I seem to airport. complication isn’t always I was there, I was continu- be increasingly influenced negative. For example, a ously thinking about how by literary sources. When Work by artist Alec Soth (lives and works in Saint Paul, Minnesota) is on lot of people from outside utterly un-Parisian I am. We I’m on road trips, I often view in the Heartland exhibition in of Minnesota are surprised were using professional listen to books on CD. Right the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. by how diverse it is. Where models and I realized that now I’m in the middle of a I live in Minnesota there is I just wasn’t interested in Jack London book. There is one of the largest popula- working with pros. So in the something about listening tions of both Hmong and end, I did a corresponding to a story while driving that Alec Soth, Charles, Vasa, Minnesota, 2002. Courtesy: Gagosian Gallery

26 27 Ron Linker Obama’s Heartland Photo Regina te Grotenhuis

Washington, D.C. - summer 2008 year. This inflation eats into income in the heartland, where distances are great and public transport is not always an ‘Obama maintains lead over option everywhere. Terry doesn’t know whether Obama has enough experience to tackle these enormous problems. McCain’, ‘American voter dis- Farmer T.R. Raymond (78) and his son Danny can no longer gusted by Republicans’ and afford the high cost of fuel. “We have to leave the tractor ‘Berlin cheers Obama.’ in the shed, since we’ve no money left for gas,” complains Danny. And so he tills the land with two mules: Dolly and Molly. “It’s a lot slower, but then we just get up a bit earlier,” The newspaper headlines spoke volumes last summer: the farmers laugh. At first the neighbours found it peculiar, Obama has got the presidency in the bag. But under the sur- but in the meantime, a lot more farmers are settling for horse face there is a slumbering doubt about Obama’s candidacy. and cart. “My favourite presidential candidate has already Where is the projected landslide, Obama’s crushing lead? In dropped out. That was Hillary Clinton,” sighs Danny. And now August the senator from Illinois was still only a few percent- the farmer doesn’t know what to think. “Obviously, anything age points ahead of his rival, John McCain, in the polls. An is better than Bush. This country can’t endure another four explanation as to why Obama’s real breakthrough has not years of Bush, and McCain wants to follow the same political been forthcoming can perhaps be found in the American course,” he says. Deliberately, I am silent. But Danny does not Heartland – a part of America where the political contest automatically arrive at the third option, so I decide to ask between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was exception- him. “And Barack Obama?” He answers resolutely, “I don’t ally bitter. In that part of America, doubt over Obama is know him that well. I hear him talk about change, but what visible and palpable. sort of change?” He doesn’t comment on whether or not he’ll vote for the senator. Terry pushes back his baseball cap, rubs his hair and says apologetically, “I think I voted for Hillary, but I’m not sure any- In a certain sense, Heartlanders like Terry and Danny are put- more.” I nod, but inwardly I don’t understand. The world is ting Obama’s problem into words. Voters say that they don’t keeping a close track of the American presidential elections, know him, and in these times of economic uncertainty they but the main players – the electors – can’t even remember refuse to gamble on an inexperienced candidate. Others how they voted?! I meet Terry in one of the more pleasant have become embittered by the internecine struggle within suburbs of Lansing in the state of Michigan. After the exciting the Democratic Party and have lost interest in the elections. preliminaries the political flame has died down. Barack Obama will have to bring voters like Danny and Terry on board in the time that remains. Only then can he become “I’ve got my hands full just with everyday worries,” says Terry president of the Heartland, and of America. when I ask him how closely he is following, or has followed, the election news. Increased gasoline prices are one of the Ron Linker is the NOS correspondent in Washington. biggest concerns for many Americans. Fuel here has always been much cheaper than in the Netherlands, but still, the price of gasoline has risen by about forty percent within a

29 A homemade raft full of artists – an artistic armada that is a cross between a jolly Carnivale circus and a free-and-easy, contemporary hippie commune. For two summers the Miss Rockaway Armada brought art and music to the banks of the Mississippi. In Miss November they are berthing for the first time in Europe, at the Stroomhuis in Eindhoven, invited by MU and the Van Abbemuseum, for the Heartland project.

Rockaway ‘I never felt easy till the raft was two mile up now and then in order to has gained, and the support of perform, talk with people and a small fleet of Eindhoven art- below there and out in the middle of the exchange ideas and meals on ists, they are spending a few Mississippi. Then we hung up our signal the banks of the artery that weeks building an installation lantern, and judged that we was free and traverses America. that conveys the spirit of their collective river adventures. safe once more… We said there warn’t no That was then. Now, in the Culminating in a weekend of home like a raft, after all. Other places seem summer of 2008, the Armada performances and music on Armada is seemingly on dry land. the 7th, 8th and 9th of Novem- so cramped up and smothery, but a raft Having been seized by unin- ber, the genie of the Armada don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and hibited fellowship, many of will once again be released crosses the ocean comfortable on a raft.’ the crew members can’t give from his bottle – all under the up the water. So the group is banner of ‘hope floats’. Huckleberry Finn, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn mustering up a new raft, or- by Mark Twain ganised by the same Swoon Angelique Spaninks, Director of who gave Miss Rockaway its the contemporary art institute MU in Eindhoven. More than a hundred years Sailing on a fleet of fantastic, name. This time it is not the Performance, exhibition and work- ago Huckleberry Finn and his homemade rafts made from Mississippi that is being sailed shop by Miss Rockaway Armada Negro friend Jim drifted down trash, the loose collective of but the Hudson, from upstate and MU, 07–09/11/2008, location: the Mississippi on their home- artists drifted down the Missis- New York all the way down to Stroomhuis in Eindhoven, for opening hours, see www.mu.nl. made raft. The one cursing sippi for two summers in 2006 Long Island, where they are Entrance free. and smoking and fleeing from and 2007, from Minneapolis berthing in the dock belong- ‘sivilisation’ and a violent in the north to St. Louis in the ing to art pope Jeffrey Deitch. father; the other in search south. A journey of some 3,500 of freedom. The adventures kilometres. It took months to As if that were not enough, they share make them one of gather enough money, materi- (a substantial part of) the American literature’s classic als and supplies to make their Armada is crossing the ocean duos as, in a satirical way, dream come true. However, to Eindhoven. With the experi- they fought against the hypo- convinced of their mission, ence that the Armada crew critical morality dominating an auction of works by the the Heartland at that time. participants provided enough to actually build their float- The demons of our own time ing, vaguely fish-shaped “Villa are also a good occasion for Villekulla”. a Great Escape, or so says this group of artists, musicians Analogous with river water, and performers, who have the Miss Rockaway Armada gathered together in the – a name proposed by street wake of Huck and Jim under artist Swoon at one of the the name Miss Rockaway Ar- many initial brainstorming mada. ‘We still live in a coun- sessions – is a fluid club. There try that fights wars so it can is no leader, no list of mem- consume more,’ their website bers, and there are hardly any states. The Armada is seizing rules. Miss Rockaway Armada the chance to flee and ‘head is simply a large group of for the center’ of our country, enthusiastic people who only now literally. want one thing: to drift down the Mississippi together, tying photo Tod Seelie

30 31 photo Tod Seelie Ernest Withers runs a small Ernest Withers attends practi- photography studio on cally all the important events Beale Street in downtown of the Civil Rights Movement Memphis. He had learned during the 1960s. He looks the craft while on military and looks, recording what service. Back in Memphis, he sees in black and white he walks along Beale Street film. He grows in stature (the ‘Home of the Blues’) in and becomes the leading the evenings, taking photo- photographer of the Civil graphs. He knows the Beale Rights Movement – his work Street music scene inside appears in publications out. Among his subjects are such as Newsweek and Time the 17 year-old Aretha Magazine. Withers mostly Franklin, Elvis Presley and depicts people, ‘as they are’: B.B. King. He pays regular a smiling boy, a tense face, visits to Negro League Base- an exhausted man; and only ball matches, as the sport is later, celebrities such as Elvis, also segregated. Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Junior. He always In 1955, he photographs the captures the human side of trial of Emmett Till. “We have the sitter in his perceptive twenty-two seats for white portraits. His images are folks and four for blacks,” ostensibly ordinary photo- the sheriff announces as graphs of ordinary people they enter the court. “We who happened to make don’t mix ‘em down here, history. we ain’t going to mix ‘em now and we don’t intend Last year, at age 85, Ernest to.” Till, a black teenager of Withers died. His work as a 15, had been brutally mur- witness of history earned dered by two white men. him the reputation of be- The suspects are acquitted ing one of 20th Century after a short trial. Ernest America’s leading photo‑ Withers is there from start to graphers. A small selection finish and publishes a small of his work will be exhibited book of his photographs. for the first time in the The Till Case shocks America, Netherlands in Muziekcen- eliciting a storm of protest. trum Frits Philips.

Later that same year, Rosa Frank de Munnik is an editor and conducts listening courses at Muziek- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. resting in Lorraine Motel following March Against Fear, Memphis, TN, 1966. © Ernest C. Withers / Panopticon Gallery Parks, a black woman, refus- centrum Frits Philips Eindhoven, he es to give up her seat on the also freelances at VPRO-guide and The police car crawls along the kerb. bus to a white passenger as VPRO-radio. Photo exhibition Ernest C. Withers, mandated by state law. The The officers peer out suspiciously. 04/10–14/11/2008, Muziekcentrum Frits police come to arrest her. Philips Eindhoven, for opening hours, Ernest C. A black man wheeling a pushchair The event sparks a bus boy- see www.muziekcentrum.nl. strides on, the child unaware, asleep. cott, lasting several months, under the leadership of the A notice hangs above the perambula- young pastor, Martin Luther Withers tor: ‘Daddy, I Want To Be Free Too!!!’ It’s King Junior. The American 1961 in Memphis, Tennessee – the city Supreme Court declares seg- regation on busses illegal in Photo exhibition where even the drinking water is 1956. That morning, Martin segregated: Whites Only. Blacks Only. Luther King Junior sits in the bus and Ernest Withers takes Ernest Withers clicks the shutter. the photograph that ends up in the New York Times.

32 33 of the rebuilding efforts Orleans, where there is too after Katrina. The people much water already. So why who live there have a new is this important? Whenever Marjetica enthusiasm for the shotgun there is a storm, the sew- house, their vernacular ers flood and sewage gets architecture. This is a long, flushed into Lake Pontchar- narrow house – so narrow, train and the wetlands. Potrč in fact, that it allows for only Rainwater harvesting slows Possibilities in post-Katrina New Orleans one room across its width down the water in the city, – with a small porch facing less water is pumped out, the street, where people sit and the city’s water table is and chat with passersby. restored. Actually, it is the shotgun house that has provided the On top of this, the city is sink- basis for the city’s famously ing. It sounds complicated, strong neighbourhoods. The but it’s not. New Orleans people of New Orleans are was settled in the Missis- truly embracing sustainable sippi River delta a long time methods of living and the ago, and now, only after wetlands, both reasserting Katrina, its unstable, unique their roots and acknowledg- and marshy environment is ing their survival territory. finally being acknowledged Sustainability is always as important. People realize practiced on the local level, that the wetlands that pro- a fact that will, I believe, tect the city from hurricanes have concrete geo‑ are being lost at the rate of political consequences in one football field every 38 To me, “Heartland” means people with our century. In this way, I like minutes. Today, FutureProof, to connect with people and among others, is redefining open hearts, a very New Orleans thing. exchange knowledge, let- the conditions for coexis- Last year, I lived in New Orleans for two ting it develop in my work. tence between the city and months. This was post-Katrina, a slow its environment. Reviving In New Orleans I worked the city and restoring the time in a slow city. Life was difficult – with FutureProof, a sustain- wetlands are part of the literally all my friends were repairing able-design consultancy same effort. “We build the their houses in each moment of free time. consisting of a small group city, we own it!”, my friend of designers who were able Kerry said; New Orleans is At the same time life was good, as there to think ‘out of the box’ after a test site for a 21st-century was always time to get together. I was Hurricane Katrina. They democracy. lucky to stay with Adrian and Srdjan, radically support the idea of sustainable practices Work by artist Marjetica Potrč (lives two wonderful young artists. I vividly and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia) is that residents can imple- on view in the Heartland exhibition remember how we met. ment themselves, as well as in the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. participatory design - the A taxi driver who was walking their two dogs and process of designing things unable to read the map making art. The tropical step by step with the par- dropped me by a big heap madness of New Orleans ticipation of the communi- of rubble in front of their and its citizens has a struc- ties involved. One example bright blue house in a run- ture, albeit not a linear one. is the practice popularly down neighbourhood. This But having lived in Caracas, known as ‘rainwater har- mountain of bits and pieces I know that eventually tropi- vesting’, where residents taken from the house was calism can work very well. I collect rainwater in their so big that at first I couldn’t love New Orleans. For me, it neighbourhoods. Rain‑ see Adrian and Srdjan. For was like coming home. water is diverted from us, it was instant friendship. paved parking lots into I stayed with them for two It is important, and also a green areas where it is months while they were great adventure, to learn allowed to sink into the occupied with the seem- from people about their ground. Some might say ingly endless task of fixing place. I was happy to be in there is no reason to store the house and their lives, New Orleans in the midst water in a place like New Marjetica Potrč, New Orleans: Shotgun House with Rainwater-Harvesting Tank, 2008. Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY. Photo Eli Ping Weinberg

34 35 Carol Heartbreak Jackson Hotel

Carol Jackson, Slaughter, 2006. Photo Carol Jackson Birthplace of Elvis Presley, Tupelo, Mississippi. Photo Otto Berchem, 2007 Elvis’ guns. Photo Otto Berchem, 2007

As a child, I remember gazing at hills rolling out endless One clear indication of this deterioration within the US is the So this is him. Ridiculously long sideburns, three brands 10 January, 1956. It’s mid-afternoon and she is in the RCA rows of crops from the back seat of our family car, only mortgage and loan crisis. The rural Midwest is suffering the of gel in his hair and that weird costume. He barely looks Studio in Nashville. Producer Steve Holes sits down beside broken every twenty minutes by an isolated farmhouse. largest losses due to a decline in manufacturing and agri- at her during the interview. Shyly, he tells her a bit about her and says, “Heavens, where did he get those sideburns! This was the central part of California we went through culture and, with that, the lowering of demand for housing. his mother. “Ah,” she thinks, “how sweet.” This kid needs a barber.” She takes no notice, for her song is on our way to a vacation in the mountains, and our lone My art chronicles the rupture of property lust in America in about to be recorded. “Well, since my baby left me, I found visit to see relatives in the Midwest. The Heartland was leather. It speaks to this particularly heightened hankering It’s 28 July, 1955. Mae Boren Axton is talking to him in his dress- a new place to dwell. It’s down at the end of Lonely Street, at something to drive through or away from, not towards. after property prominent in the United States and the sub- ing room, where he is preparing for a performance. Mae is a Heartbreak Hotel.” The kid believes in what he is singing. “This sequent burst of the real estate market. My sources include teacher who occupies herself with music PR and also occa- is going to be my first number 1 hit.” It takes only half an hour For an urban American, ‘Heartland’ is a loaded term. On the billboard signage for housing and property, western tack sionally writes songs. “That thing you do with your leg – how- to get the song down on tape. one hand it conjures up pastoral visions of our agricultural and saddlery, as well as fragments from epic literature. ever do you manage that in time with the beat?” He smiles. origins. On the other, it means the Red States, where Christian “It’s not easy, but it just automatically wiggles like that.” After She has heard the rumours. The big cheeses at RCA didn’t go Fundamentalists have given us eight years of George Bush. It ‘You, the West, are dying. I see in you all the characteristic the interview, she watches him perform. Could that really be for it. So Lonely I Could Die? Much too grim, nobody wants to is the agricultural centre of the continent providing suste- stigma of decay. I can prove that your great wealth and the same shy boy? The audience explodes. Mae turns to a buy that. What kind of music is this anyway? Bebop crossed nance, like a vital organ, to the urban majority dwelling on your great poverty... is bleeding you from below and killing girl near her and asks, “What’s with that kid?” The girl replies, with Country? “Rock ‘em and sock ‘em” rhythm style? And we the coasts or extremities. Madison Avenue has co-opted the you off at the top in your brains. I can prove to you that “He’s just a great big beautiful hunk of forbidden fruit!” paid that kid the highest price ever, thirty-five thousand dol- term to endear market-processed food with a nostalgic halo these were characteristic marks of the dying ages of ancient lars. Surely that’s just throwing money down a hole? But Mae of “Wholesomeness” or “Goodness”. states... Alexandria and Greece and neurotic Rome.’ Autumn, 1955. George Dudden, a DJ friend of hers, shows her Boren Axton has no doubts. Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West an article in the Miami Herald. A man has been found dead I came from L.A. to Chicago for graduate school and was in a hotel room, and the police seek information to identify Heartbreak Hotel comes out as a single on 27 January, 1956 surprised to find how much I loved it. Its seasonal changes, Work by artist Carol Jackson (lives and works in Chicago, Illinois) is on view in him. The only clue he has left is a letter saying ‘I walk a lonely and reaches number 1 in less than three months. It is Elvis the Heartland exhibition in the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. people, affordability, ‘livability’, and unique culture continue street’. Mae and George put their heads together and start Presley’s first number 1 hit. In Liverpool, England, a 15 year-old to engage me. Far from the monetary and market pressures writing a song. “Let’s put a Heatbreak Hotel at the end of this schoolboy called John Lennon hears the number. He starts of New York or LA art I have more time to contemplate and lonely street.” They are finished in half an hour, and record a growing sideburns and forms a group. produce my ideas, while being inspired by others. Amongst demo. Mae knows just the singer to show this one to. these is the work of Roger Brown, Jenny Holzer, and Oswald Frank de Munnik is an editor and conducts listening courses at Muziekcentrum Frits Philips Eindhoven, he is also a freelancer at VPRO-guide and VPRO-radio. Spengler’s overwrought and methodless classic entitled The singer looks at her. She plays the demo again. He is im- Listening course Introducing the Heartland I & II, 10/10/2008, Muziekcentrum The Decline Of The West. I am most influenced by historical pressed: “Hot dog, Mae, play it again!” By the time he leaves, Frits Philips & 23/10/2008 Van Abbemuseum. Entrance € 9 + € 1 admin. fee. accounts of cultures in their final stages, from the Roman he knows the song by heart. “Mae, I promise you, Heartland Café with Peter Guralnick (one of the most important American pop culture journalists, and writer of a two-part biography on Elvis Presley), Empire to the British Navy just after the Napoleonic wars, to I’m going to record this number.” 08/12/2008, 21:00. Grand café Meneer Frits in Eindhoven. Entrance € 10 + € 1 ad- the more reliable news reports of today’s US economy. min. fee. For a discount on multiple Heartland Cafés, you can buy the Heartland Café Card. See www.muziekcentrum.nl.

36 37 Matthew Day Jackson

Opening sa 04/10/08 15:00 - 21:00 uur

A study of the way in which American art has influenced and has been received in the Netherlands and the Van Abbemuseum in particular. How present have American artists been in the Van Abbemuseum? Living Archive provides insight by exploring the exhibition and acquisition policy of the museum’s directors Edy de Wilde, Jean Leering, Rudi Fuchs, Jan Debbaut and Charles Esche. Bruce Nauman en Jean Leering in gesprek, 1969. Foto Van den Bichelaer, Geldrop.

Room where my Grandfather was born, Malmo, Memphis, 2006. Photo Matthew Day Jackson

If you asked me what the word “Heartland” means, I informing the now at every turn, like a spectre that never would say that, to me, the Heartland is not a geograph- goes away and never supposes the same form. 6 september – 18 oktober ical space, but rather a psychological one where the bullion of the American dream lies. At one time it was It was not a person, place or thing, but rather a portion of MICHAEL LANDY the gateway to a new frontier, and in the time since it myself, which I continue to find in all the historical locations has become something more liminal. The Heartland is a I have travelled to and in the people I have met. The most In your Face tightrope: through presidential elections and regional amazing discovery during one of these trips happened history, it is neither here, nor there; it is a threshold. when I went to Malmo, Nebraska, to the home that my grandfather was born in – a man I never met, who died 25 oktober – 6 december Locality and a consciousness of the place from and about when my father was young. I went to the room where he which I make work, both play an important part in my was born, and in turn where much of myself was born. artistic thinking. The place that I live in determines who I Outside was overgrown, and the house about to fall, it was DAVID GOLDBLATT am: I am a product of my environment. Working with the an illustration of this United States: a failing body which Intersections Intersected iconography and the mythology of my ‘locale’, is who I hasn’t realized yet that it is ill. am, so perhaps it is everything. I believe in nurture rather than nature, so place is both me and us, and in a culture Work by artist Matthew Day Jackson (lives and works in Brooklyn, New York City) is on view in the Heartland exhibition in the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. that becomes more global everyday, I also become you. 14 december – 24 januari

Everything is interrelated, making it difficult to even define the boundaries of my ‘locale’. BRITTA HUTTENLOCHER Nieuw werk In my own small way, I try to remain open to many influences at all times, maintaining a comprehensive view of the world and problem solving. I am influenced, as I am a creature of nurture, rather than nature, but the source of this changes rapidly and constantly. Generally I am trying to illuminate the space between, like purgatory, or a ghost realm. I believe I live in a middle space, with history GALERIE PAUL ANDRIESSE

Gebouw Detroit Withoedenveem 8 NL-1019 HE Amsterdam T +31 20 623 62 37 F +31 20 639 00 38 [email protected] www.galeries.nl/andriesse 38 Mick Ronson, friend of David ultra-slow, bittersweet, sung I know the church Alan Bowie in the 1970s, was also in unison, delivered with a Mormon. And the mousta- an utter concentration you Sparhawk and Mimi chioed singer of The Killers is wouldn’t expect from a neu- apparently one too. As far rotic like Alan Sparhawk. Low Parker go to in Duluth, as I know, however, no musi- demands the same concen- cian of any standing has tration from the audience. and believe me, it does ever made music based on his or her Mormon convic- Before I make the error of tions. Sparhawk and Parker comparing this performance not begin to compare may well consider them- in Eindhoven to a church selves Mormons first of all service, I must mention that with the Catharina and musicians only second- Sparhawk walks like a duck. arily. I don’t know, because Yes, a duck: with ankles Church in Eindhoven – I have never asked them. almost touching and toes Nonetheless, when they pointing outwards at an where their group, Low, make music they are purely angle of forty five degrees. musicians, as I have been And what a tempo the man able to confirm with my can keep that way. Another will round off the own eyes and ears. They are force of nature. musicians who just happen Heartland project. to be Mormon, not Mormon David Kleijwegt is documentary filmmaker, producer and pop culture musicians. There’s a world of journalist. He made the documentary difference. Low - You May Need A Murderer. The Church of Jesus Christ of Catholics, by contrast, have Final concert Heartland: Low & special guests, 22/01/2009, 20:15, Latter-Day Saints is some- a greater sense of drama, Low’s music seems perfectly Catharinakerk in Eindhoven. where on the outskirts of which is evident in their love at home in a church, all the Entrance € 15 + admin. fee. the sleepy American city of ritual. This Sunday, two same. On stage, the group is Tickets: www.muziekcentrum.nl (think of any moderate sized people have volunteered to like a force of nature, and it (040-2442020), www.ticketservice.nl (0900 300 1250), and the official sales European provincial town address the congregation. has been that way for fifteen locations. like Grimsby or Almelo, They both describe how tumultuous years. Look at a with fewer traffic lights). Its they found faith. Nothing geyser, listen to a rainbow: congregation numbers, at you wouldn’t expect. The where do you go for things most, a few hundred. The preacher tells us about two like that? Their sound is an drab building with its spire members of the congrega- pointing perkily heaven- tion who are thinking of wards looks, if anything, changing jobs. Should they? like a crematorium. Tones Yes, the congregation pro- of grey predominate with nounces, twice, as though occasional touches of faded to order. Then it’s time for brown and pale green; there psalms. Alan Sparhawk and is more than just a hint of the Mimi Parker sing along, while dismal 1970s architecture – their children, Hollis and a familiar style across the Cyrus, look around aimlessly. Western hemisphere. Sur- They behave themselves im- rounded by an asphalt car peccably, of course, though park, the site’s ambience can it’s clear at a glance that at best be called corporate. they are bored stiff.

The same is true inside. It’s What a good idea to have like a dentist’s waiting room. Low, the group that has Should you suppose that the made Sparkhawk and Mormons (our usual name Parker not so much famous for adherents of the Church as notorious, performing in of Latter-Day Saints) hide a church. You don’t come some fascinating secret in across a lot of Mormons the bowels of their church, in popular music. The I will have to disappoint Osmonds, those teenage you: even their services idols of the 1970s, were an are desperately dull. The exception. The late guitarist Alan Sparhawk. Still: Jacques Laureys, N.S.C.

40 41 LOAlan Sparhawk. Still: Jacques Laureys, N.S.C. W Greely Myatt Home is where the Heartland is

I live in Memphis, In the sense of the lower Tennessee – smack case “heartland”, to me this means home. How- in the middle of the ever, home is what I know, Mid-South and on where I am comfortable and what moves me. With the banks of The an upper case, “Heartland” Mississippi River. means something broader – this project, of which I I was born in am excited to be a part. It Mississippi, south- offers an opportunity to get east of Memphis, my work in front of a new and different audience. My well as smells, sounds and consistently attempted and despite travel- guess is that to someone sensations. All these flavour to combine art historical ling often, I have outside, this region is sel- the work, like cooking, and references with vernacular dom thought of. But thanks hopefully together they influences. As a native of the spent most of my to another Mississippi boy produce a good stew. rural south I have a tremen- life in this region. who settled in Memphis, dous respect for work that is While I would like to Elvis, I believe this area is As an artist, I want you to made by hand and guided easy to place, though care about something as by the heart and eye. But I explain the Heart- difficult to understand. much as I care. To do that also understand the impor- land to an audience I make work that is at the tance of the mind in the pro- I cannot say that I try to same time familiar, and a cess. To state my approach unfamiliar with represent the Mid-South bit strange – mysterious to the making of art in the this place, I simply concretely, but it is abso- and, I hope, poetic. I want simplest and most direct would not know lutely in my work. This place the work to be accessible manner, I have tried to use is invasive! It completely on numerous levels, through these: the hand, the eye, the where to begin. I embraces you. Everything use of materials and treat- heart and the mind. believe my art from the oppressive humid- ment of form, conscious of ity to the magnificent smells how it rubs up to art across Work by artist Greely Myatt (lives addresses this and works in Memphis, Tennessee) is and sounds affect the world time and informed by this on view in the Heartland exhibition “home” in a non- here. The air is heavy, the same history. The sculptural in the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. pace is slow, but life here is objects and installations verbal way, but I’m sweet and should be cher- that I have produced over sure it doesn’t get ished. The materials I use recent years refer to topics close to telling the are indigenous, with their as varied as High Modern- own local colour. By profes- ism, topical issues, the land- whole story. sion, I am an observer and scape - both physical and make work which reflects cultural - as well as music, the visual stimulations as jokes and cartoons. I have Greely Myatt, Cleave, 2002-2008, in The University of Memphis Art Museum, 2002

42 43 SMART museum of art

The Smart Museum of Art in Chicago. Photo Andrea Baer

Heartland will offer the European audience an oppor‑ collection. In addition, Chicago is the home to an astonish- tunity to consider how artists have responded to a ing array of immigrants from other lands as well as to Barack region at the center of a country that is a continent Obama. All are part of the story of the American Heartland. wide. Having been exposed primarily to life (and This makes Chicago a particularly appropriate American fictionalized images of the life) on the East and West base for this exhibition. coasts of the United States, Europeans are generally unfamiliar with the “real” America that occupies so As the art museum of the University of Chicago, one of much space between those far-flung edges of the nation. America’s most important research universities, the Smart is This project offers a unique opportunity to enhance also keenly interested in presenting projects that lie at the European understanding of an America that is more intersection of art and ideas. We take particular pride in our complex and multi-faceted than is often acknowledged. history of organizing compelling thematic exhibitions of By the same token, the Smart Museum of Art is looking contemporary art. Heartland is in every way a project that forward to the exhibition’s reformulated presentation emerges from the spirit of adventurous inquiry that charac- Opening here in the United States in 2009. terizes the Smart Museum’s program. 04/10/08

15:00 - 21:00 The Smart is located in Chicago, often described in the Anthony Hirschel, Director of the Smart Museum of Art at the University of United States as “the most American of cities” and certainly Chicago. The Heartland exhibition will travel to the Smart Museum of Art, where a modified form of it will be shown from October 2009 until January 2010. Plug In is the name of an exciting exhibition project in the largest, most important city in the center of the country. which the museum’s collection of modern and contempo- It is perhaps best known abroad for its extraordinary archi- rary art is being exhibited in a new experimental way in tectural and musical legacies. Our city supports a rich com- constantly changing presentations. munity of visual artists, many of whom are featured not only in this exhibition, but also in the Smart Museum’s permanent

44 45 ‘en als ik alles heb gezien..’

Colophon ‘dat heb ik al Magazine Heartland Project Heartland

Editors: Ralph Kits (mana- Curators Heartland exhibiti- geregeld’ ging editor), Nicole de Boer, on: Charles Esche and Kerstin Clare Butcher, Charles Esche, Niemann (Van Abbemuseum), Ramona Kun-Kuti, Kerstin Nie- Stephanie Smith (Smart mann, Jeannine van Tienen, Museum of Art, University of Partners Heartland Frank Veenstra Chicago)

Design: 75B Music programme Print: Roularta Printing nv Heartland Muziekcentrum adv_volleybal_vanabbe_210x135.indd 1 28-08-2008 17:00:27 Frits Philips: Frank Veenstra en Contributions: Matt Bakkom, Ad van Meurs Jeremiah Day, Jan Donkers, Charles Esche, Hardland/ Photo exhibition Ernest C. Heartland, Anthony Hirschel, Withers by: Frank de Munnik Scott Hocking, Carol Jackson, Contributions Matthew Day Jackson, David Muziekcentrum Frits Philips Eindhoven Entrance: Kleijwegt, Miryam van Lier, Heuvel Galerie 140 Rhodes College Center for Ron Linker, Ad van Meurs, P.O. Box 930, 5600 AX Eindhoven Information & reservations: the Outreach in the Frank de Munnik, Marjetica + 31 (0)40 244 2020 Development for the Arts Potrč, Greely Myatt, Kerstin [email protected] Niemann, Maarten van Ros- Opening hours: Memphis College of Art, Mo–Sa 12:00–17:00, during concert nights: Memphis sem, Stephanie Smith, Alec one hour and fifteen minutes before until Soth, Angelique Spaninks, fifteen minutes after start of a concert Telephone: MU, Eindhoven Frank Veenstra, Wim Vringer, +31 (0)40 265 5600, Mo–Fr 11:00–17:00, John Weeden Sa 12:00–17:00, during concert nights until 19:00 www.muziekcentrum.nl Translations: Auke van den Berg, Olaf Brenninkmeijer/ Van Abbemuseum Bilderdijklaan 10, Eindhoven Heartland has been Bookmakers Vertalersteam, P.O. Box 235, 5600 AE Eindhoven Michael Gibbs, Vic Joseph +31 (0)40 238 1000 realised in part Opening hours: by a contribution of Tu–Su, 11:00–17:00, Photo-credits: Andrea Baer, Th evening until 21:00 the city of Eindhoven Matt Bakkom, Otto Berchem, www.vanabbemuseum.nl and the Mondriaan Foundation Charles Esche, Hardland/ www.heartlandeindhoven.nl Heartland, Carol Jackson, http://heartland.vanabbe.nl Matthew Day Jackson, Gagosian Gallery, Regina te Grotenhuis, Scott Hocking, Jacques Laureys, Ruud Lips, Kerstin Niemann, Panopticon Gallery, Picasa-webalbums, Protetch Gallery, Bram Saeys, Tod Seelie, Wendell Seitz, Alec Soth, The University of Memphis Art Museum, John Weeden, Eli Ping Weinberg

Naamloos-1 1 26-08-2008 10:28:29 heartlandeindhoven.nl