Following the exhibition series “dialogues” Geetje Aerts, Oscar Wyers and Sarah Bijlsma made six video portraits. Rijnder Kamerbeek came with “helaas” (unfortunatly) a series of fascinating textual thoughts about decision-making of contemporary artist. Etalage Derde Wal closes its year with the exhibition Thank You For Watching were personal stories, rejection, abandonment, harassment and comment [...]
[Go See] Thank you for Watching @ Etalage Derde Wal
May 10, 2012
The marvelous world of Japanese artist Keita Kurosaka
May 9, 2012
During our last Incu Thursday we announced that the animation film Midori-Ko is gonna screen at Incubate 2012. Now we like to give you some extra information behind this movie and Keita Kurosaka, the creator . Keita Kurosaka is a very talented illustrator and experimental filmmaker from Japan, who has been exhibiting his work since the early [...]
[Watch + Review] A Joyful Slog – a Documentary on the Irish Independent Music Scene
May 9, 2012
A Joyful Slog is a documentary about the Irish independent music scene and the development of DIY music ethic in the country over the last twenty years. It features interviews of bands such as And So I Watch You From Afar, Jape, Adebisi Shank but also journalists and labels representatives. Former Incubater Sjuul Stultjens wrote the following [...]
[Go See] Comrades of Time @ Project Space Tilburg
May 9, 2012
The exhibition’s title is adopted from the eponymous text of Boris Groys from 2009. “Ours is a time in which we reconsider – not abandon, not reject, but analyse and reconsider – the modern projects”, in his text Boris Groys pleas for a reconsideration of modernity, not a rejection, not an embrace, but a reconsideration. [...]
[Listen] First track of new EP of Amen Dunes
May 8, 2012
Last year Damon McMahon released, under the name Amen Dunes, his well-praised second album Through Donkey Jaw on our favorite record label Sacred Bones. Now he recorded three new tracks that a covers from unnamed Ethiopian popsongs. This EP, under the logic explainable name Ethio Covers, is gonna be limited printed on 7″ vinyl. His first track of this [...]
[Watch] Vinyl hunting with Theo Parrish in Amsterdam
May 8, 2012
Incubate 2011 artist Theo Parrish is featured in the following clip made for the Electronic Beats series Slices, who also did a lot more of these kind of interviews which you can find on their site. The clip is a good example of the mixture of professionalism and love for vinyl, from someone who uses [...]
Incu12-band War changes his name into VÅR + new music video
May 8, 2012
You’re probably not gonna notice a lot on the pronunciation, but the Danish band War has changed his named to VÅR, the Danish word for ‘spring’. The duo, who we announced a month ago for our festival, wrote about their new name : ‘”the name change happens in spring and is named thereafter“. Thats seems pretty clear, [...]
[Report] SPOT Festival @ Aarhus, Denmark – Day 2
May 7, 2012
After yesterday’s pretty exhausting bus ride and sleeping a lot we worked today at the report of day two of our experiences on the Danish showcase festival SPOT. If you missed day 1 make sure you’ll check it here! Volcano day party Our day started with a showcase event hosted by the Copenhagen-based management company [...]
[Art Monday] Go See: Rhombus @ De Fabriek, Eindhoven
May 7, 2012
Rhombus is the result of a collaboration between Graphic Surgery and Floris Bovée. This site-specific installation is a polished diamond-shape of 100 m2 cast on the existing floor of De Fabriek. The interaction between the original floor and the almost perfect gloss-shape creates a new perception of the entire space, where reflection reinforces the perception of space. The abstract formal language of Graphic Surgery and the conceptual approach of Floris Bovée are merged to this minimalist expression. Opening May 11, 20:00 Open [...]
[Art Monday] You Should Know: Julien Berthier
May 7, 2012
Julien Berthier is a French artist from Paris, probably best known for his Love Love yacht (photo above) which is actually seaworthy. Besides the bizarre, constantly sinking ship, Berthier created many other cool projects in his now 15-year long career. Just have a look below and you see a few, have a look on his [...]
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[Incubate Scene Report] A Guide to Bristol
May 21, 2012
Bristol is musically probably best known for the “Bristol Sound”, which was the name given to a group of artist who broke through into the mainstream with a sound that was given the stamp ‘trip-hop’. Best known are probably Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky, but there were many others. Even though Portishead’s Geoff Barrow later [...]