Join the largest art project in the world. Together we are going to create the largest version of the Inside Out project ever at Incubate 2012. All residents of Tilburg can participate. The project transforms personal portraits into art and then makes them visible in the city. To make this all possible we need your help.

Anonymous artist, citizens of Tilburg in the spotlight
People make art and the streets are the largest gallery in the world. JR is an anonymous French artist. He is the driving force behind this project and consciously chooses for a place in the background. He uses streets worldwide as exhibition spaces which he attracts the attention of everyone, including people who are not museum visitors. The portraits are exhibited in various places, in front of windows of houses, at offices or on special columns. Old women become models and children become artist. With Inside Out, JR won the TED award in 2011, which is also won by Bono, Jamie Oliver and Bill Clinton. With those proceeds, the project is partially funded. There is also an international movie made about this project, which will have a prominent place in Tilburg. So let’s all get together and show Tilburg from its best side.

Mothers central
The theme of the Tilburg edition of Inside Out is mothers. So we all together let them know we appreciate them. Joyous young mothers till grandmothers full of wisdom and experience. These mothers have made a significant contribution to Tilburg, we think that all mothers deserve the attention to show them in all the beauty and diversity.

Getting started
At www.insideouttilburg.nl you can upload your portrait. For €10,-, the picture will be transformed into a great work of art in New York. You can write down that what makes the mother on the photo special. Through a special app it will be possible to scan each poster and see the text on your smartphone. Therefore the text will not be printed on the poster.

All info can be found on www.insideouttilburg.nl.

Yesterday evening we made this project, the follow-up to the successful Play Me, I’m Yours-project, public in the theatre of Tilburg. The whole audience was psyched make this project to a success. Go see the photos of last night here and click here for the newspaper article that Brabants Dagblad published today. We are really looking forward start Inside Out & maybe it’s a good idea to end with the creator of this phenomenon JR:

“I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating in a global art project, and together we’ll turn the world.. INSIDE OUT”

We can’t embed the poll on our website, but by clicking underneath the picture what the poll looks like, it will guide you to the main page of Brabants Dagblad (Tilburg) where you can find it underneath the page on the left! Please retweet, Facebook or share this with your friends in some way!

• Here a selection of some festival videos (there are many many more out there; special thanks go out to kkpgijsbers who made a lot of these videos)

Some Stuff

• Lost Painters about the last day of Incubate
• Some more reviews at 3Voor12/Tilburg
• DJBroadcast post about Incubate
• Clubcircuit wrote a review of the Incubate Festival as a whole
• Photos at our Flickr. Many more will follow in the upcoming days!
• More photos from Wilek Bierens
• More Fileunder posts about Incubate
• Oh, and there is a poll at the site of the Brabants Dagblad whether Incubate is a festival for the elite. What do you think?

Tweets about Incubate: (if you want to read more try #incu10, #incubate)

Frank Fairfield live @ Incubate 2010, 17-09-2010 from Martijn ter Haar on Vimeo.

News Flash

• The pirated version of Incubate, Intrubate, started yesterday. Today they will continue
• Fileunder published a photo of Bad Guys at Incubate
• Fileunder published a photo of the Black Mountain gig at the Natuurtheater
• Of Nie wrote about the fifth day of Incubate
• Lost-Painters wrote about the fifht day of Incubate as well
• Many new photos have been added to our Flickr
• Some more reviews at 3Voor12/Tilburg
• Brabants Dagblad wrote about the Black Mountain gig
• NRC Handelsblad wrote about the Incubate Pirate Conference:

• De Volkskrant published an interview with Dan Deacon and Jimmy Joe Roche and a review of the Jim Black/Bram Stadhouders/Sidsel Endresen gig:

Tweets about Incubate: (if you want to read more try #incu10, #incubate or #ipc10)

Today we have more for you in store! For more information on today’s program, check here.

If you’re tweeting about Incubate, or sending photos (from your cellphone) of Incubate 2010 stuff, you can tag them with this special Incubate hashtag: #incu10

If you do so, your tweets and Mobypicture photos will end up in our official backchannel, which you can visit via http://incu10.incubate.org. Keep your friends informed about the festival, even if they’re not able to visit it. They’ll love it!

(Tilburg Ink)

(Wildbeaming)

Many more photos can be found at our Flickr

Yesterday marked the second day of Incubate with the first movies, gigs by Zea, The Ex, Ab Baars, Andy Moor & Yannis Kyriakides, Pamelia Kurstin & Seb Rochford, Moemlien and The Monotones. Here’s a twitter impression of the second day of Incubate (for more tweets try #Incu10 Zola Jesus, Ab Baars, Zea The Ex, Andy Moor, Yannis Kyriakides, Pamelia Kurstin, Seb Rochford, Moemlien, The Monotones).

News Flash:

-This Thursday, Matt Mason will be a guest in talkshow ‘De Laatste Show‘ on Belgian national television (broadcast at 22.05 @ Een).
-There are two articles (1 and 2) about Matt Mason at the Frankfurt section of Gonzo Circus magazine blog.
-Pictures (1 and 2) of the recording of a session with Zea (recordings will follow soon!).
-Tom Roelofs made a beautiful portrait of Zola Jesus.
-Brabants Dagblad wrote about the Incubate Pirate Cinema.
-Vrijetijdsblog wrote about Incubate.
-A Fileunder.nl photopost about The Ex
-Photos from The Ex, Ab Baars, Zea, Zola Jesus and Andy Moore & Andy Kyriakides at Clubcircuit.

Today we have more for you in store! For more information on today’s program, check here.

If you’re tweeting about Incubate, or sending photos (from your cellphone) of Incubate 2010 stuff, you can tag them with this special Incubate hashtag: #incu10

If you do so, your tweets and Mobypicture photos will end up in our official backchannel, which you can visit via http://incu10.incubate.org. Keep your friends informed about the festival, even if they’re not able to visit it. They’ll love it!

A video and some more pictures from yesterday’s gigs:

(more here and here)

(Photos by Niels Vinck, more of them here + more to follow).

And we’re off! Yesterday evening, at the NWE Vorst, the sixth edition of the Incubate festival started with a lecture on social innovation by British author and thinker Charles Leadbeater. The talk was followed by an interesting panel discussion. For pictures of this event, click here.

Here’s a twitter impression of the event (for more tweets try #Incu10 or Charles Leadbeter)

-Here are the articles that Lost Painters and Brabants Dagblad wrote about the opening lecture of the festival.
-Our artistic director Vincent Koreman did an interview with Radio 1 BNN. Listen to it here (at 00:02:26)
-The interview with Matt Mason in De Groene Amsterdammer can now also be read for free.

Today we have the first bands for you! For more information about today’s program, check here.

If you’re tweeting about Incubate, or sending photos (from your cellphone) of Incubate 2010 stuff, you can tag them with this special Incubate hashtag: #incu10

If you do so, your tweets and Mobypicture photos will end up in our official backchannel, which you can visit via http://incu10.incubate.org. Keep your friends informed about the festival, even if they’re not able to visit it. They’ll love it!

Earlier today we wrote about the Glocal items on Omroep Brabant and in Brabants Dagblad. Here you can read an article that 3VOOR12/Tilburg wrote about Chasny’s project. 3VOOR12/Tilburg is also looking for people willing to film Chasny’s instore gig, tomorrow at Sounds.

Suddenly we get a lot of media attention and reactions because Hermann Nitsch (See never before seen videos here) will perform on Incubate.

It seems that a couple of animalright activists have pressed charges against Incubate because of the Action that will take place during Incubate. The problem for them? Nitsch uses a dead pig in his performance.

A lot of (printed) media picked this up, and this stirred a lot of reactions (in Dutch).

Politicians: Smolders, a local populist politician (former driver of Pim Fortuyn) calls art “retarded” and “Nitsch a perverted and so-called artist.” The major of Tilburg said that the government should leave a lot of space to art in the city. Reminds us of the famous politician Thorbecke who is believed to have said “Art is not the business of the government.” And Dyon Graus of the PVV (you probably heard about their leader Geert Wilders) says he will do anything to stop this from happening.

A  responce with some more in-depth knowlegdge comes from Thomas Crombez, who studied philosophy and theater sciences. He published in the Brabants Dagblad the opinion that Nitsch nowadays is almost a sort of parody of ancient rituals and therefor of himself. In that same paper, but on Saturday, Gerard van Hove published an article with the title “Art should be a moral sanctuary”, wherein he defends Nitschs work.

To read a lot of reactions by the public check the reactions below this article in Sp!ts. Or this article on FOK!

De bloedprofessor, de slager van Prinzendorf of de goeroe van het geronnen bloed. Allemaal bijnamen voor de Oostenrijkse kunstenaar Hermann Nitsch die niets aan de verbeelding over laten.

Door zijn bloederige rituele performances ligt de 70-jarige kunstenaar al een halve eeuw onder vuur van dierenactivitisten, katholieken en rechtse politici.

Met de Oostenrijkse kunstenaar als hoofdgast haalt het Festival Incubate (13 t/m 20 september) ook de kritiek op zijn werk naar Tilburg.

De organisatoren van het achtdaagse Tilburgse festival richten zich vooral op de onafhankelijke onderstromen van de hedendaagse cultuur. Het werk van Nitsch, die al sinds 1959 bezig is, sluit volgens de organisatoren aan bij een actuele stroming van hedendaagse kunstenaars die zich met hun werk ook richten op totale overgave en morele grenzen op zoeken.

Overschrijdt de met bloed bespatte kunst van Nitsch de morele grenzen? Dat is de prangende vraag die steeds weer opduikt.

Check out the 4 pages counting special in Brabants Dagblad today!

The first to bring the name change was the Dutch 3VOOR12.

Soon to follow was the also Dutch Brabants Dagblad and Virtueel Platform.

Weirdo Music was one of the first to bring the news to non-Dutch speaking world.

First not-Holland based press that posted an (interesting!) article on the name change was The Quietus.

A more original post can be found (in Dutch) on Alternative.blog.

On twitter (where ‘ZXZW’ and ‘Incubate’ made it too the top twitter words among top 100 Dutch twitter journalists) one  comment was (among many retweets (Thanks!) and questions):

“ZXZW wordt Incubate, dat klinkt als een hard technofeest in de bossen, maar het is wel een verbetering” by Robin Geurts

Roadburn was great. We are still recovering. We think these crazy Germans will also be quite tired. There was also some press. Check 3voor12/Tilburg, Oor and Brabants Dagblad for the first reviews.

David Tibet will perform at Roadburn. Brabants Dagblad did an interview. Read more here.

This saturday De Pont opened an exhibition by Job Koelewijn. Read a review here. If you go there: also check out the overview on young Brabant artists.

Tilburg is a city that’s tranforming rapidly. But the political ambition is quite low, compared to other cities. Ton Withagen, from Tilburg University, wrote an excellent analysis in Brabants Dagblad.