The Performance
In progress 2025
As an artist I am interested in social themes. In 2024 I worked in the municipality of Krimpen aan den IJssel on an artistic research entitled 'cardio_vision'. From the conversations I had and the knowledge I gathered, I developed a plan for 'The Performance'. Now I talk to those involved about the possible realization and I am looking for local partners with an interest in this art project. 'The Performance' starts from a long-cherished wish of this municipality to realize a vibrant heart of the village. 'The Performance' wants to contribute to the imagination of a "Heart of Krimpen" from a shared responsibility. This art project offers the opportunity to add meaning to this process.
Where other villages are built around a church or characteristic square, the new centre of Krimpen is situated behind the dike around a large car park. It feels as if the built "body" of Krimpen, which started as a ribbon village, lacks an appealing "face". While a human heart cannot do without a face and vice versa. 'The Performance' serves the search for this missing "face". The common as having (something) in common with someone goes further than having a drink together on a terrace or doing some shopping at the DIRK. The common asks for a "cultural construction site" of "resident builders" to speak in the words of urban planner Lotte Stam-Beese (Reisicht, Silesia, 28 January 1903 - Krimpen aan den IJssel, 16 November 1988).
Krimpen aan den IJssel is home to 30,000 people, but is the village also being "built by residents"? The municipality's new city centre plans are technically advanced, but mainly describe collections of stones. How do you ensure that these plans can facilitate the development of our cultural values? 'The Performance' does not present ready-made answers, but by playing with the conditions of this living space, new perspectives arise.
'The Performance' cannot exist without you. If you would like to contribute to 'The Performance', please feel free to contact us.
Kind regards, Edwin Stolk.
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