JIMINI HIGNETT – CV

2012 Co-editor URGENT! Publication (2013) – writing ensuing from the Reading Group in the Artists’ Tent at Occupy Amsterdam – a multiplicity of voices and visions surrounding the Occupy movement, contributors include Dmitri Vilenski, Brian Holmes, Jonas Staal, Libia Castro
2012 Performance Lecture at the Rietveld Academy was both a beginners’ guide to the Occupy movement as well as a personal, sometimes critical, account of events at Amsterdam’s Occupy Beursplein – slowness, solidarity, vulnerability
2012 The Beursplein Hearings (Collaboration, Artists in Occupy Amsterdam) – fellow occupiers in Occupy Amsterdam were interrogated on the dilemmas of maintaining a radically inclusive and participatory democracy by a rotating panel of four.
2012 Live broadcast via Skype for Museum TV Station at SMART Project Space Amsterdam – on Occupy at the 7th Berlin Biennial
2012 Occupy Chain (Collaboration, Artists in Occupy Amsterdam) as part of Artur Zmjewski’s 7th Berlin Biennial
2012 ‘The Oldest Profession’ – article in a series surrounding Occupy Amsterdam for Dutch News & Opinion site Joop.nl
2012 Occupy Campaign (Collaboration, Artists in Occupy Amsterdam) – Bringing politics back to their source: the neighbourhood and the street. SMART Project Space, Amsterdam
2012 Occupy and the Politics of the Commons – discussion presentation with Elke Uitentuis & Michael Hardt, at Social Centre De Valreep, Amsterdam

2011 Revolutionary Karaoke, for Occupy Beursplein in Amsterdam – emphasising solidarity both between different struggles emanating from different communities and countries & connecting today’s struggles with those of the past
2011 Lecture-performance, How To Go On… at the International conference ‘The Spirit Level’, Dept. Intercultural Communication, Hogeschool InHolland, Amsterdam
2011 Work with Chto Delat and Ultra-red on creation of learning play ‘How Can You Be At Home In An Alien World’ in SKOR symposium, ‘Social Housing – Housing the Social’, Amsterdam
2011 Performance Lecture via Skype for MTVS as part of the Errorist Night at SMART Project Space, Amsterdam
2011 Performance Lecture via Skype, Alcedo Atthis for Lado Darakhvelidze’s Museum TV Station in Galleria Arsenał in Białymstoku, Poland
2011 MUD, contemporary ceramics dealing with urgent issues – ZET, Amsterdam
2011 Work with Chto Delat on ‘Museum Songspiel – The Netherlands 20XX’ – décor, costumes, casting, dialogue etc etc – SMART Project Space, Amsterdam & the Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven
2011 Lecture-performance Special Attention at the 3-day International conference ‘Practicing Theory’, ‘Imagining, Resisting & Remembering’, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
2011 Participant in YesLab to develop ‘Green Light District’ (work in progress), a satirical website project
2011 ‘How to Explain a Whore to a Seven Year Old Boy’ for ‘Amsterdam Liberty City Guide’ – alternative/artistic/architectural guide, Archis/Partizan Publiek
2011 Participate with Chto Delat ‘What is Communism?’ seminar and learning play, Where has Communism Gone? at SMART Project Space, Amsterdam

2010 Live Performance lecture via Skype of Bella – (poverty and class in Birkenhead, Merseyside) for Museum TV Station at Lado Darakhvelidze’s exhibition at PS2 Gallery in Belfast.
2010 ‘Temporary Art Souvenirs’ collaborative project, parallel-event op Manifesta-8 in Murcia & Cartagena, Spain (spin-off from DAI & Manifesta Platform)
2010 guest curator for the project Se Busca III, project Maribel Perpiña, La Pinta collective in Barcelona, Spain – with artists in residency at Hangar. Presentations in the auditorium of MACBA (Museum Contemporary Art)
2010 ‘Special Attention’ performance lecture and installation in POST-DORT 2010, exhibition Masters graduates NL, Centre for Contemporary Art CBK Dordrecht, NL
2010 The Detroit Diary – publication, paperback book (DAI)
2010 participant in brainstorm Partizan Publiek, NL
2010 How To Go On… performance presentation in OT301, Amsterdam, NL
2010 OPEN nr.19, ‘Beyond Privacy’ publication of photos from ‘Special Attention’ project with article by Rob van Kranenburg
2009 – 2010 participant Manifesta Platform for (Un)Solicited Research and Advice (DAI)

2009 Volume Magazine, Speramus Meliora, text & photos about my work in public space Detroit, USA
2009 design for a Mobile Art Space in ‘Spirited Caravans: re-imagining Bangalore’s outdoors’ at Protospace, Bangalore, India
2009 presentation of ‘Godsend’ video in Poptahof, Flatland Delft, NL
2009 Godsend – blog for Negotiating Equity with Renée Ridgway – Delft, NL (DAI)
2009 participate with ‘Roadkill’, Made In Den Bosch, CBK Centre for Contemporary Art, Den Bosch NL
2009 ‘Speramus Meliora’ – work in public space, Detroit, US and lecture presentation ‘The Authentic Detroit Experience’, MOCAD Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, USA (DAI)
2009 participation in ‘Wellust’, Vegel, NL, with installation ‘Untitled (Blonde and Beautiful)’

2008 participant Arnhem Fashion Biennial, ‘La Maison de Poupee’, Historical Museum, with Ceramic Roadkill
2008 teach 5-days workshop for third-year students at St.Joost Art Academy, Den Bosch, NL
2008 participantexhibition Knitted Worlds, Textile Museum Tilburg, NL, with two installations ‘Gift for Dr.Matlock’ and ‘Suit for a Skeleton’
2008 ‘Se Posa Bona’ – posters and performance in public space – Barcelona, Spain (PostStJoost)
2008 ‘How To Go On making art when everything is all fucked up’ – publication (PostStJoost)
2008 How To Go On… installation, group exhibition – Kruithuis, Den Bosch, NL (PostStJoost)
2008 Survival Strategies nr.1 – performance – De Kop, Breda, NL (PostStJoost)

2007 Huisvesting Weerspiegelt Succes (Accommodation Reflects Success) – work in public space – Den Bosch, NL (PostStJoost)
2007 Installation in tower room for ‘Tijd’ (Time) Culemborg, NL

EDUCATION
Sept. 2008 – juli 2010 : Dutch Art Institute (DAI) ArtEZ Master of Fine Art
Sept. 2007 – juni 2008 ; Post St. Joost, MFA

GRANTS
2010 Stichting Stokroos funding towards publication The Detroit Diary
2007-08/2008-09/2009-10 Neeltje Buis Opleidings Fonds (grant towards MFA study)
2007-08/2008-09/2009-10 Henriette Beck Fonds “
2007-08/2008-09/2009-10 Max Cohen Fonds “
2007-08/2008-09 Christine Stichting “

BEFORE 2006 – (working freelance in theatre & film, and raising a child)
1998-2005 freelance set design/building for theatre-group Pandemonia and others
2005 co-write and edit ‘Welcome to the Netherlands’, Ex-Pat guidebook, ABN-AMRO
1995 birth of son, Flint Louis
1994 perform in and design and build sets for large-scale, open-air theatrical production ‘Wraak van de Draak’ performed on barges towed around the Ysselmeer
1993-4 bursary from the Dutch Film Fund to co-write ‘The Beholder’, a pseudo-docu¬mentary concerning the “Cargo” project
1993 bursary from the NCO (governmental commission for co-operation with developing countries) to write a creative documentary situated in Cuba
1992 Publication of prizewinning script of ‘The Portrait of Natasha’ in the documentary edition of ‘Het Nederlands Scenario’, (the Dutch Script)
1992 participant in Werk Maatschappij’s controversial “Cargo” project
1990 first prize for best scenario at International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam,
fl 250,000 COBO-fonds
1990 Moscow as set designer/builder for ‘Moskovski Dyetski Theater Estrada’
1985-89 Amsterdam, work with various visually oriented theatre groups such as Onk, Studio Hinderik, Matrogoth and Dogtroep, performing as well as making sets
1983-4 tour Europe and London with own theatre-group ‘Christians from Outer Space’