Blue Meetings: The Starting Point

About

Blue Meetings are a weekly conversation with the two Blue House members Roe Cherpac and Daniela Paes Leão in the basement of the Kalvertoren at the HEMA café. They will invite friends to join them around a table with coffee and predisposition of debating any subject that will come up in the moment. This project came from the necessity of bringing discussions outside the physical walls of The Blue House, developing the process of openness and porosity. Believing that as a ‘residency of the mind’ it is possible to bring the house with them, they use its ‘absent presence’ as a pretext for the discussions. The conversations will be registered/edited by Daniela and posted online on this page.

The Blue House

'The Blue House is a Brainstorm project from Jeanne van Heeswijk & Herve Paraponaris' in the new neighborhood IJburg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 'Over a four-year period, artists, architects, thinkers, writers and scholars of various nationalities are being invited to live and work in The Blue House for six-month residencies. These residents have been given the assignment of actively entering into a dialogue with one another, with their co-inhabitants in IJburg and with the public. The aim is to establish links between the world within (their world) and outside (IJburg in development and the rest of the world), and thus become co-authors of IJburg's genesis and evolutionary history, which also includes the cultural history of a community.'

For more information: www.blauwehuis.org

Monday, March 23, 2009

The Starting Point