In 2009 we did an extensive project on performance artist Hermann Nitsch. This week it hit Bild Zeitung, the biggest German tabloid. They’ve put it in the top 10 list of the most   Check the whole list right here.

Thank you very very much to Damen Corrado for emailing us about this new Hermann Nitsch documentary, shot at his first live painting in New York! Hermann Nitsch was our main guest at Incubate 2009.

“The Immortals, how they lived in timeless space, enraptured, become metaphor, the crystalline eternity poured like ether around them, and, the cool, starlike, radiant serenity of this other-earthly world – how was all this so familiar to me? I reflected, and snatches of Mozart’s “Cassations,” of Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” came to me, and it seemed to me that everywhere, this cool starry brightness shone, everywhere this ethereal clearness oscillated. Yes, that was it, this music was something like a chamber of frozen time, and above it there oscillated endlessly a superhuman serenity, an eternal, divine laughter.” -Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse

Taken from Eternal Laughter

Last Wednesday, Throbbing Gristle member Peter Christopherson has died in his sleep at the age of 55. Last year, Christopherson visited Incubate to see the performance of Hermann Nitsch. A month ago, Throbbing Gristle announced to continue under the name  X-TG as Genesis P-Orridge left the band. Peter also played in bands like Psychic TV and Coil. Some of the very last photos of Peter Chrisopherson with his band X-TG can be found on the Flickr website of Chris Carter.

R.I.P. Peter Martin ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson

27 February 1955
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24 November 2010

We had Nitsch and his pig. We named him Thor. Kabouter Wesley’s always up to date and this cartoon is about the Nitsch pig, we think. Sorry it’s in Dutch, but must be fun if you don’t understand anyway. Enjoy!

Photographer Pieter Kers was at the Nitsch performance on Incubate 2009. He made a great set of photo’s of the preparations, the performance and the cleaning part.

View all photo’s here: http://www.beeld.nu/nitsch/

Hermann Nitsch coming to Tilburg was the talk of the month September over here in Tilburg. Here a couple of opinions by the hardworking men and women of our city, in Dutch, about Art, pigs, and the joining of those two.

Here you can see a nice item on Dutch national television about Hermann Nitsch and the Incubate festival.

It deals with the question wheter or not it is Art, what Hermann Nitsch does.

By now the artist stream flooding into Tilburg is getting enormous! What do you need to see? Everything! That’s right: it’s all worth it.

Just surprise yourself, don’t see only the things you already know.

Jandek, Misery Signals, Kayo Dot, Mad Professor, Tryee Cooper, Altaar, Jessica Bailiff, Shackleton, AU, Schlachthofbronx, Kraaklink, New Jacks, are of course a couple of the more familiar names today.

Two words will be uttered a lot today: Wardruna and Aktion.

Wardruna is a special folk project Einar ‘Kvitrafn’ Selvik (Jotunspor and ex-Gorgoroth). Wardruna creates ritualistic folk music with traditional instruments such as antlers and wooden logs, inspired by old runes. Fire, water, stones, and branches are use as well. The musical atmosphere that reminds one of an old pagan ritual site complete with trees, fires and druids, will become reality during Incubate as they will perform in an Amphitheater. With the mighty Gaahl of God Seed (also ex-Gorgoroth) on vocals.

Bus schedule:
Busstop will be the parkinglot alongside the Spoorlaan, facing the ABN Amro building. That is just 200 meters from the Info and Ticket Centre.

Bus ride 1 from Tilburg to Natuurtheater: 21.00
Lecture Kennet Granholm: 21.45 – 22.30

Bus ride 2 from Tilburg to Natuurtheater: 22.00
Show Wardruna: 23.00 – 00.00

Bus ride 3 from Natuurtheater back to Tilburg: 00.15
Bus ride 4 from Natuurtheater back to Tilburg: 01.00

Tickets for the bus rides (3 Euros for a return ticket) can be bought at the Info and Ticket centre at the Spoorlaan.

Click on the Wardruna @ Natuurtheater link for more info!

Hermann Nitsch part 6 of 6 from Incubate Tilburg on Vimeo.

Hermann Nitsch‘s Action is the most talked about Incubate happening this year.

Blood. Horror. Filth. Beauty? Rationality? Education? These are some of the ingredients the Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch uses and some of the questions his work raises. Highly controversial for some, highly regarded by others; Nitsch is someone you need to have an opinion on. Not to have one is not possible once you’ve seen the work by one of the instigators of performance art.

Location: 16:00-19:00 Zwijsenpand, Gasthuisring 58, Tilburg (the Netherlands).

click the image for a bigger picture/ klik op het plaatje voor een vergroting.

The whole shabang:

Gezocht: dragers voor Nitsch Action op Incubate

Do you wanna pusch you edge? Come to the action of Hermann Nitsch this saturday! Too much? Hear him play his organ pieces in the church today!

Our own Vincent Koreman, Hermann Nitsch and Franko B.

Joining forces at Incubate.

New Slaaaaaaayuuuuuurrr artwork was revealed yesterday here. It looks very Nitsch to us!

We found a new one! Stichting Ateliers was very kind in offering Incubate a new place to stage the Action by Hermann Nitsch. So write down this address if you want to be a witness of this mindblowing performance:

Zwijsenpand
Gasthuisring 58

That’s a ten minute walk from the Ticket & Info center, or just five minutes from Tilburg Central train station. You can park your car there as well.

Click the image for a full size view

Photo by Iain Crawford.

via Nerdcore

“The Dionysian sound ritual of Hermann Nitsch. Controversial, shocking but always unbelievable fascinating.”

Listen to a concertzender broadcast with organ pieces by Hermann Nitsch

Hermann Nitsch.
1. ‘Satz 1’ from Komposition für Orgel in Fünf Sätzen.
2. ‘Satz 4’ from Komposition für Orgel in Fünf Sätzen. Hermann Nitsch (orgel).
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3. Part 1 from ‘Musik der 66. Aktion’ (21 May 1980, Frankfurt am Main/Städelschule)’. Performance group directed by Hermann Nitsch in cooperation with Frank Dolch (organ, technics). Alga Marghen plana-N 2AKT.014

Put together by: Mark van de Voort

One of the best places in Tilburg is the museum for temporary art De Pont. Whatspace posted cool pics of the Nitsch exhibition that is taking place right now. With an Incubate wristband you get in for free, DO NOT miss this awesome opportunity!

Hermann Nitsch is very strongly influenced by writers as Marquis de Sade and Sigmund Freud, painters like Edvard Munch and Paul Cézanne and composer Richard Wagner. (Dutch source)

Other exhibitions in De Pont:

- Gerhard Richter
48 Portraits

through 1 November 2009
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- Fiona Tan
works from the collection

4 July through 27 September 2009
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- Hermann Nitsch
Stations of the Cross

presented as part of Incubate festival, Tilburg

5 September through 4 October 2009
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- Peer Veneman
project-space

The seven Virtues and some Saints

12 September – 1 November 2009
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- Bill Viola
Intimate Work

12 September 2009 – 10 January 2010
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Nitsch is not a butcher, he’s an artist.

Pics are borrowed from Whatspace.

Hermann Nitsch, a man who inspires many artists in my genre of arts, the world of experimental music, is visiting Tilburg and you can’t miss it: the coverage in the media is bigger than ever, but where is it about? Pigs? Meat? Animal rights? Come on! I will not get into that whole debate, i prefer to see myself as someone who thinks without borders instead of of someone who’s shouting things which we all know are bullocks (a.o. Smolders/Graus).

Instead I would like to talk about arts, like I said, over the last years of touring I saw many artists perform who are inspired by him, not only by his music, but mostly by the esthetic side of his aktionen: getting back to controlled violence, intimidate the audience, open their minds for emotions which they don’t even know they have, best examples are Smell and Quim, Monopolka, Costes and in a way also Lucas Abela, who uses the auto-mutulation aspect Nitsch uses as well.

During the interview, held yesterday at theatre De NWE Vorst in Tilburg, Nitsch explained globally how he got to where he is now, both in life and work. He talked about his idea behind the gesamptkunstwerk, the influences both Joseph Beuys and Jackson Pollock have/had on his paintings and about how you can use actors as true, honest (and not acting) individuals during a performance. The links he made to psychology (a.o. Freud’s taboo on incest) and the Catholic Mass as a ritual, were not really a surprise. Personally I would have loved to hear him talk more about his view on Sadism and the book Venus im Pelz by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, which has obvious links to his work, but like a lot of people, I was too afraid to ask.

Nowadays Nitsch is an old man, drinking goes slower, talking goes slower and after an hour you felt he had enough of it, but maybe it was also the setting. The questions by Henk Oosterling, a Rotterdam philosopher, were not bad, but sometimes they were a bit to vague or distracting to my taste, just cut the crap and say what you want to say. Also the translation was a difficult thing, it got the speed out of the interview, which was a pity: we could have heard more interesting information, but it’s also understandable; my german is good enough to understand Nitsch in his own language, but i can imagine that’s not the case for everybody.

All the small notes aside it was a nice evening, as a experimental musician I would have loved to hear more about his musical work, his organ performances, his Geräuschmusik, but after the commotion in the media the performance part of his work needed more attention. And now it got the serious attention it needed, let’s please get back to what its really about: Art, with a capital A.

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Wouter Jaspers
Vatican Analog

As you can see here, there is plenty to do today, the second day of Incubate 2009!

Piano music, performance art and hip hop, that’s Incubate day #2 in a nut shell, but of course there’s much more!

Today:

Monday 14 September

• Kunstpodium T
  • 16:00 – 19:30 Putting the Arts back into Darts
  • 20:00 – 21:00 Cathy van Eck *tip*
  • 21:00 – 23:00 Putting the Arts back into Darts
• De NWE Vorst
  • 20:30 – 21:30 Doris Stelzer

‘Views in Process’ takes a look behind the superficiality of clichés and stereotypes in the media’s presentation of the body. Doris Stelzer has a fascination for movement and how we think about ourselves and others. In ‘Views in Process’ this is combined in a show that does embody a lot of movement that you do not necessarily have to call dancing. In this way, she uses the body to critique social-political views on body images.
After Talk: Sonja Augart

• Cul de Sac
  • 23:30 – 00:30 Jonquil ENTRANCE FREE
• V39
  • 20:00 – 20:30 Tiké
  • 20:45 – 21:30 Mentol Nomad
  • 21:45 – 22:30 Spectre the Ill Saint
  • 22:45 – 23:30 Sensational
• Paradox
  • 20:00 – 21:00 Nancy Elizabeth
  • 22:00 – 23:00 Hauschka

And do not forget to check out the Bibliotheek Tilburg Centrum for some cool photographs of Nitsch. Between 11:00 and 21:00 you can see the photographs there. And check out the Argument Vertoningsruimte because between 14:00 – 18:00 Fritz Welch‘s exhibition can be seen.

At 20.00 Hermann Nitsch will be interviewed by Henk Oosterling at De NWE Vorst. It’s a one-off opportunity to hear more on the ethics, aesthetics and history of the master himself.

Lichtsculpturen, 2005-2006

Trendbeheer posted works of artist Merijn Denkers. He is part of Incubate‘s New Jacks event:

With all the commotion about Hermann Nitsch coming to Tilburg next week, you should almost forget all the other great artists!

Like Archibald Kobayashi posted in their best tracks ever feature: Hiphouse legend Tyree Cooper will be coming to Incubate as well: Saturday 19 September | 23:30 – 01:00 | V39

In the Pauluskerk on Sunday 20 there is a very impressive line-up when it comes to acoustic, instrumental and singer-songwriter music for instance neofolk by :Of the Wand & the Moon:, Cam Deas (who happens to be a BIG fan of the work of Hermann Nitsch), James Blackshaw, Jozef van Wissem and also the christian singer-songwriter Kim Janssen.

Pauluskerk schedule

• 16:00 – 16:30 :Of The Wand & The Moon:
• 16:45 – 17:15 Kim Janssen
• 17:30 – 18:00 Brethren of the Free Spirit (James Blackshaw and Jozef van Wissem together)
• 18:00 – 18:30 Jozef van Wissem
• 18:30 – 19:00 James Blackshaw
• 19:15 – 19:45 Oldseed

Get your tickets here!

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!

Herman Nitsch part 1 of 6 from Incubate Tilburg on Vimeo.

Exclusive Video material, recorded in Eindhoven, The Netherlands ’82 by Wijnand van Lieshout.

Hermann Nitsch is Main guest at Incubate 2009 13-20 september, Tilburg, Holland www.incubate.org

Hermann Nitsch part 2 of 6 from Incubate Tilburg on Vimeo.

Hermann Nitsch part 3 of 6 from Incubate Tilburg on Vimeo.

Hermann Nitsch part 5 of 6 from Incubate Tilburg on Vimeo.

Hermann Nitsch part 6 of 6 from Incubate Tilburg on Vimeo.

After being graduated as a photographer in 2007, Liselotte De Groot also started with performances, vj-ing, dj-ing and performing with her two bands. This diversity of interests has a big influence on her photographic artwork. Subjects as modern pop culture and sex combined with her love for sarcasm and self-mockery, become a humorous and colorful look at the world. Besides these themes her photographs are always strongly aesthetic.

She made the Incubate/Vedett beer mats and the advertisement on the back of the Festival Guide!

She is part of the New Jacks program during Incubate and will have an exposition in Duvelhok during the festival:

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Really cool in-depth article about Incubate titled ‘Het virus van Tilburg.’  Written by Miriam van Ommeren for De Optimist.

“Van 13 t/m 20 september is Tilburg in de ban van Incubate, een van de beste festivals van Nederland.”

Read the full Dutch article here (use Internet Explorer, the site doe not seem to work very well with Firefox)

De zeer brede en gevarieerde programmering zorgt eigenlijk zelden voor problemen, omdat elke bezoeker wel iets van zijn of haar gading vindt. Het zorgt ook voor een gevarieerde opkomst en dat is precies wat Incubate wil. Het festival is allang niet meer dat ‘weekendje Tilburg met punk- en metalbands’. “Af en toe wordt er wel wat kritiek geleverd op het zogenaamde verlies van onze underground status,” zegt Kimenai, “maar dat zul je altijd houden. Wij willen ons niet vastklampen aan het predikaat’ underground’, wij praten nu bewust over ‘independent culture’.”
Terugkijkend op de afgelopen vijf jaar is de organisatie vooral trots op het feit dat een aanvankelijke hobby nu is uitgegroeid tot een actieve en organische stichting die in alle richtingen blijft groeien en bloeien en in staat is om volslagen onbekende artiesten, legendarische muzikanten, beginnende componisten en gevestigde kunstenaars in één week bij elkaar te brengen.

Anaal Nathrakh, which name means Serpent’s Breath, (The all-knowing Wikipedia: “The name comes from Merlin’s Charm of Making in John Boorman’s Excalibur (1981). Given Michael Everson’s transcription, Anaal Nathrakh means ‘serpent’s breath’.”), will play @ Incubate Wednesday 16 September | 22:00 – 23:00 | V39

Get your Wednesday ticket here (only 10 euro for the whole day, including musea, Franko B performance and much more!)