Hoorn Stories was a project I initiated when I had a residency/exhibition at the Mariakapel in Hoorn, North Holland in November 2003.

I collected stories about events which had happened to people in Hoorn. I also asked people to tell me the location of each story. The stories were then placed throughout the Mariakapel, located as if there was a map of the city on the floor. The stories were on stands, so that people could walk through them as though they were walking through parts of the city. I also painted the blue line of the coastline on the floor which aided location. Stories were collected through e-mail, interviews, and written response from press publicity. Most of them were in Dutch with a few in English.

I was invited back to Hoorn in February 2004 to do further work on the project, this time for an exhibition in Hoorn Central Library. The exhibition was part of a City Council consultation into how the people of the city would like to see it develop. The stories were suspended from the ceiling and laminated. They were arranged according to the location of each story, running from North to South.

Click here to see the Hoorn Story website
(includes stories)

At the Mariakapel



At the Central Library

 

(In Progress)