van Heeswijk, Jeanne, Winters, Marten: Some 7 (2004)

During a residency at the Ludwig Museum in 2004, Van Heeswijk produced a series of video interviews examining particular female roles in society. T e work had a strong personal premise and was based on the text ‘Creative Urge Annex a Zeal for Improvement’ (2000) by philosopher Maaike Engelen, a text about the various (female) roles that make up the artist persona that Van Heeswijk sometimes adapts in her professional life. The artist was curious to find out what these female roles of museum guard, poet, critic, philosopher, chambermaid, secretary, dancer represent in a post-communist Budapest. She interviews seven women, considered to be good at their jobs. Mrs Dezső Győrffy, Orsolya Karafiáth, Katalin Timár, Eszter Babarczy, Mária Sánta, Zsuzsanna Papp and Yvette Bozsik talk about their professions and explain to their audience why it is that they are good at what they do and what skills it takes. The seven women represent the seven female qualities the poetical, critical, philosophical, nurturing, light-footed, organisation and watchfulness that form the basis for engaged creativity.