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RENÉE KOOL
Sportclub Buitenveldert | Renée Kool (1961, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Renée Kool is a versatile and theoretically well-grounded artist who works without a studio, using public space as her sphere of action instead. Depending upon the concept that she works out for a particular situation, she chooses performance, photography, video or forms of theatre; she also involves other artists, writers, etc. in her projects.
Sportclub Buitenveldert is literally a place and figuratively a social organization in the Zuidas. Both structures are under pressure from the developments in the Zuidas. This sports club has a rich tradition of activities for its (youthful) members, like for instance homework classes. An intensive contact has sprung up between the artist and the club on social issues, which will be carried even further in the coming period.
Proposal - My proposal, which I worked out during my Free Space period (and which has been rendered into a trailer), is to follow the development of this club in relation to the Zuidas for a period of two years. I want to try to portray how the sports club manifests itself within the sphere of ongoing changes in the Zuidas.
I am indeed beginning to realize more and more that it is not possible to give a simple insight into this, but that the whole difference in the attitude of the people of this sports club is that they are proactive, that they do not react, but anticipate changes in their position. Even the fact that they have taken me in is important for that reason; the fact that I am an artist in residence at the club is part of their strategy.
In the past two years I have been involved in a collaborative project between an art institute, a school for architects/urban planners and a school for landscape architects; this collaboration was aimed at developing new participation and communication strategies for, and with, stakeholders in processes of urban development change. Very good studies and models have come out of this.
But the people of the sports club DO THINGS. They do what many on the macro level talk about in large conferences. With them, it is a question of commitment and they have a matter they can deal with. Recently Henk Voskuilen, the chair of Sportclub Buitenveldert, pointed this out to me again: "When people see that they can band together for something that is important and makes sense, you can organize them very well. That's how it works, and not any other way."
