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eindhoven 4/10/08 - 25/1/09 art & music from the heart of the United States featuring MAARTEN VAN ROSSEM AD VAN MEURS LOW JEREMIAH DAY ERNEST C. WITHERS marJetica Potrč ALEC SOTH TABLE OF CONTENTS ²%PFNBBSHFXPPO 10 14 16 26 EBOEPFKFBMHFLHFOPFH³ Dr. Bernard van Driel, psycholoog 30 32 34 40 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 intro- duction 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, pub- lications, 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 ar- tists 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.