You didn’t expect this did you? Well, we’re sending out a press release about our complete line-up in a few, so we thought we might as well share the last additions to our lineup for Incubate 2011 now!

But first the bad news, you might as well have read it somewhere but Wise Blood couldn’t get their EP released in Europe on time and sadly decided to cancel their European tour, including their performance at Incubate.

The good thing is we have booked Mueran Humanos from Argentina, who will play instead of Wise Blood. We have also added Kool Thing to our lineup, who are on tour with Austra.

And finally the names for Whatspace’s Let’s Jam are finally announced! You can find the whole list of artists below.

Newly added to the music program:

Mueran Humanos – 18/9

post-punk, experimental, minimal wave
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Kool Thing – 16/9

indie, dream pop, noise rock
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Whatspace’s Let’s Jam:

Whatspace / Let’s Jam – 12-18/9

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With these new additions, we’re now at 265 confirmations for Incubate 2011. The line-up is complete now! Want to know more about the artists? Check the artist profiles on the Incubate website.

Attending Incubate 2011? Go to Facebook and Last.fm so you can see who of your friends are going as well and stay up to date on the Incubate 2011 news! You can check out the whole line-up on the last.fm page as well. Tune in on our weekly updated Spotify Playlist to listen to the confirmed artists.

You can buy your tickets for Incubate 2011 here! And camping tickets as well.

We will announce new names every week where possible, so keep an eye out for the blog, or your favorite Social Media channel every Thursday at 14:00h. And of course, share with your friends!

Last week it was time for Art Amsterdam and Merijn Denkers (Incubate) was there for a review! You can find the review underneath here (in Dutch) and some more photo’s after the jump!

“Art Amsterdam vond dit jaar plaats van 11 t/m 15 mei. Op verschillende blogs is er al een hoop over te lezen en fotoverslagen te bekijken (zie de links onderaan). Twee maanden geleden zag ik al berichten langskomen waarin de dagen werden afgeteld. Een belangrijke jaarlijkse manifestatie binnen de Nederlandse kunstwereld. Dus ben ik vol verwachtingen naar de RAI gereisd om mezelf te laten onderdompelen in een goed overzicht van de hedendaagse kunst. De hedendaagse galeriekunst welteverstaan, want meer dan kunst als handelswaar was er niet te beleven.”

“Een beurs is een beurs waar handelaars komen om te kopen en te verkopen, dat is duidelijk, toch had ik er hogere verwachtingen van. De stands waren braaf behangen met werkjes van kunstenaars uit ‘de stal’. Schilderijtje hier, sculptuurtje daar, maar nergens een beetje lef in de presentatiewijze (op een enkele uitzondering na). Misschien is een kunstbeurs daar ook niet de ideale omgeving voor, want galeries willen natuurlijk vooral ‘dingen’ verkopen. Dingen die logistiek niet te moeilijk zijn. Handelbaar. Voor boven de bank van een enkeling die het wel kan betalen.”

“Maar waarom tonen er zo weinig galeriehouders het lef om hun galerie als experimentele presentatieruimte te gebruiken? Is het nu, in deze tijd van aankomende bezuinigingen, niet van belang dat vooral de galeries het voortouw nemen? Genoeg enthousiaste kunstenaars. Al is het maar voor een deel van de stand. Of is het risico simpelweg te groot?”

Klik door voor meer foto’s en links na de break:

Hieronder een telefoon-foto-verslag gemaakt van werken die mij opvielen. Hiervan een selectie:

Esther Tielemans, Galerie Akinci

Koen Deleare, Aschenbach & Hofland Galleries

Michael Wolf Real Fake Art, galerie Wouter van Leeuwen

Links:

Een nog veel beter en uitgebreider fotoverslag vind je op de blog van Lostpainters.

En verder:
Whatspace
Trendbeheer
Chmkoome
Welikeart
Metropolis M

One of our Whatbar participants, Michiel Ceulers from Belgium, has a new project running in Zurich! Description taken from the Whatspace website:

“Michiel Ceulers’ paintings investigate the medium of paint. At first, these inconvenient, difficult to read, uncompromising and very diverse paintings are hard to grasp but on a second and third look, these small, rather dirty paintings are very precise and sharply handled, cheekily referencing previous historical styles.

Jostling for position in his studio, they are treated roughly and poorly, they lean amongst and against each other (whilst some are still wet) producing scarring and marking. The dirty marks, thumb-prints, ripped and badly stretched canvases are integral to the work. Ceulers is not interested in beautiful or representational pictures, he is simply analysing colour-shapes, brushstrokes, and light. Once his paintings have left the confines of the studio, they cease to be in a constant state of flux and finally become.”

The exhibition is running until May 28th.

For more information check here. Taken from the Whatspace website.

One of the participants from our Whatbar project, Sven Ole-Frahm, is back soon with a new show at the Aschenbach & Hofland galleries! There’s no date for the show yet, but there are some examples of his work that look pretty promissing! For more examples check underneath here or the link to the Whatspace website!

Taken from Whatspace

This Saturday at 15:00 the exposition The Spur of the Moment will take place in Nest in Den Haag/The Hague. Here’s a short description about the exposition:

“The Spur of the Moment is a Nestarchy project in colaboration with Koen Delaere. Koen Delaere is one of the driving forces behind ‘Whatspace’, an artist initiative from Tilburg without a fixed location or programme. Whatspace organises ad hoc events and exhibitions that occur where the Whatspace-members reside. Projects are realised at short notice and on a whim.”

You can find more information on the website here.

Our friends from Whatspace and the Filmfoyer invited two visual artist to curate an evening with their favorite films. Tomorrow, Wednesday November 10th, audiovisual artist Harm van den Dorpel will host the first Whatfilm-evening. He graduated from the Gerrit Rietveldacademie and is always searching for fysical sensation in his art. Film played an important role in his development as a visual artist. He will not only show movies that inspired him, but will also talk about them.
The second one (Wednesday, November 24th) will be curated by Wendelien van Oldenborgh.

The Incubate gospel according to’ section gives you Incubate 2010 tips from insiders. Third one: Koen Delaere.

1.Who are you?
Koen Delaere.

2.What will you be doing during Incubate 2010 (Sept. 12-19)?
I participate in the Tilburg Ink program.

3.Which three artists do you recommend to see at Incubate 2010?
Hallogallo 2010 plays Neu!, This Will Destroy You and The Ex.

4.Any non-musical things you recommend during the festival?
Check out the work of Martijn Hendriks, Rafael Rozendaal, Constant Dullaart, Jeroen Doorenweerd, Dan Deacon and Jimmy Joe Roche.

Buy festival tickets here!

A THING IS A THING IN A WHOLE WHICH IT’S NOT

Curated by Mike Potter Projects and Whatspace

Shannon Bool
Sebastian Dacey
Koen Delaere
Thea Djordjadze
Hansjoerg Dobliar
Siggi Hofer
Bas van den Hurk
Gregor Hylla
Theo Michael
David Ostrowski
Michail Pirgelis
Gerda Scheepers
Luke Barber-Smith
Joep van Liefland
Jannis Varelas

Opening Reception: Friday, June 4, 2010, 7 pm
Exhibition: June 5 and 6, 12 – 6 pm

Temporary Gallery Cologne
Mauritiuswall 35, 50676 Köln

www.temporary-gallery-cologne.de
www.mikepotterprojects.blogspot.com
www.whatspace.nl

This Saturday Incubate will curate a stage at the Europe Mania Festival. The festival takes place in Pécs, Hungary from the 6th until the 8th of may. On may 8th Incubate will host the Brewery stage.

The people of Whatspace led by Koen Delaere have conducted a very special poster project entitled Making Do: Uses and Tactics. In this project the format of the poster was interpreted in the light of French culture sociologist Michel de Certeau’s philosophy on modernity. In his book ‘L’invention du quotidien. Vol. 1, Arts de faire’ Certeau argues that the gap between the homogeneity of the major scientific, political or philosophical stories and variety of everyday practices are unbridgeable. According to Certeau there are two possible reactions to this problem: to either emphasize this gap or to pretend that it does not exist. In the latter solution life is brought back to simple abstractions. Certeau calls this ‘strategy’. In emphasizing the gap one searches for operations that theme this gap. This is what Certeau calls ‘tactics’.

The format of the poster usually functions as a strategy. In Making Do the artists of Whatspace have approached the format of the poster in a tactical way. In doing so, they have not let homogeneity be their guide, but rather tried to emphasize the heterogeneity of images and their production methods. This approach has led to a large collection of posters made by Koen Delaere, Bas van den Hurk, Marjolijn Dijkman, Piet Dieleman and MFA AKV/ St. Joost students Bruno Listopad, Lorelinde Verhees, Ian de Ruiter, Thomas I’anson and Manuel Sanchez.

The results are exhibited at the BKKC office in Tilburg until june 6^th 2010. This weekend however, a selection of the Whatspace poster exhibition can be admired at Europe Mania, Hungary as well!

Incubate is about to curate a stage at the Europe Mania festival in Pécs, which takes place from the 6th until the 8th of May in the Hungarian city. In Pécs, European Cultural Capital for 2010 will host the Brewery stage on May 8th.

The artists performing on the stage are:
COCO BRYCE (dubstep & skweee)
SONIDO DEL PRINCIPE (nu cumbia)
DJ UMB (transnational dubstep/global ghettotech)
GLOBALIBRE (global ghettotech)
BOEF & DE GELOGEERDE AAP (grime/hiphop)

Beside the music acts, we also bring Hester Scheurwater (with her Wildbeam project), Whatspace with a special poster project and dancecompany Fragmenta to the 4th city of the country.

Also on the festival bill are artists like Junkie XL, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Jazzanova and Chicks On Speed. For more info, please check europemania.hu! Hope to see you around!

Last Friday, The Destroyed Room took place in Tilburg. With a lot of art, a few performing artists, tequila and lots of beer, it was a great night! 3VOOR12/Tilburg attended and wrote this review. Whatspace has a lot of photos and videos of the evening and the preparations. If you find some more stuff, please share it in the comments below!

For The Destroyed Room on the 5th of March Cary made a special movie that he filmed in the ruins of Detroit and he will participade in a musical performance with some local musicians from Tilburg.
The line up will be:

Cary Loren
Ries Doms – drums (ex Spades, Powervice, Bars, now in Hooghwater)
Frank Kimenai – bass (Anaphylactic Shock)
Michiel Eikenaar – vocals (Anaphylactic Shock, Nihill)

To quote Cary:

“the performance will sound something like ambient free jazz and
doom metal. I am going for hellish Buddhist  sounds in a bleak and empty landscape. I don’t know what to listen to maybe death metal + Don Cherry+ Alice Coltrane.”

Sounds promising!

The Destroyed Room/Whatspace
Perron 58, Tilburg
5th of March 20.00

Mount Kimbie and James Blake @ Dausteg, Oslo 9/09 from Tony F Wilson on Vimeo.

Kimberly Clark plays with her own emotions…
In a hyper way the artist’s collective uses clichés surrounding them: sex, party, violence, art, mythology, poetry…
Kimberly Clark mixes all these ingredients to installations, in which they express their love-hate relationship with the world they live in.
It’s ‘Art with pleasure’ created with passion.

Kimberly Clark makes sculptures and installations refering to escapades they stage on the street.
During those actions they create sceneries moving between clumsiness and seriousness, in a complex world in which beautyideals and behaviourcodes define acceptation.
For example the work ‘crusade Rotterdam’, is based on two women climbing to the top of a heap of construction waste lying in the street. One of the women is carrying a piece of beam, the other one ironcurtain rails. The composition of the women is that of a crucifix. The piece refers to history as it was inspired by the painting of Delacroix ‘Freedom guiding the people’, but at the same time it refers to ‘styling of uselessness’.

With feeling for self ridicule KC flirts with an image language wich is raugh but most important, humoristic. In a way you could say the installations are autobiographical. At least the artists can identify with the subjects they chose. That explains why the collective often takes ‘the woman’ as their point of departure. The contradiction between the beauty of women and the rawness of her situation creates vulnerability but at the same time female heroine and power.

Be there.

WHATBAR # 6
BOYS OF SUMMER
KARAOKE
WHATSPACE ARTCOLLECTION
OYSTERS/TEQUILA/BEER

ZWIJSSENPAND
GASTHUISRING 58 TILBURG
START 21:00

The film spirals outward around Detroit locations – beginning with homes and apartments; living areas to institutional sites; schools, airports, police stations, business, parks, etc..

At each site images are burned including copies of Wall’s ‘Destroyed Room’, icons of Detroit culture, and personal history. The work will be an index of material ruins, cultural debris and autobiography – the post-destruction of an urban wasteland.

Transitions between sites have short clips of Japanese ritual suicide, (Seppuku or Hara Kiri) and the kamikaze, taken from classic and trashy Samurai films and stock footage. The final work can be projected as a background for a live noise performance. It will also be narrated by homeless people interviewed throughout the city, some who currently are living in its ruins.

project by WHATSPACE, coming to Berlin February 26, and to Tilburg March 6…

Curator: Rob van Kranenburg ism Whatspace

Rob van Kranenburg (nieuw media) / lezing en presentatie van de avond/
Marjolijn Dijkman (kunstenaar) / vj
Klaas Kuitenbrouwer (virtueel platform) / lezing

Tijl Frijns en Huub Vlemmings (AKV/ St. Joost) / decor
Jan Kempenaers (kunstenaar) / lezing
Thomas Bakker (kunstenaar) / licht

Sandra Rottenberg (programmamaker) / lezing
Staplerfahrer (avantgarde muziek) / optreden
S. Lloyd Trumpstein (kunstenaar) / tekenen
Rozemarijn Westerink (kunstenaar) / tekenen
Marc Namblard (geluidskunstenaar) / geluid
Oorbeek (geimproviseerde muziek) / optreden
kiki (muziek) / optreden

DATA: Soundscapes, Found Sound, Image to Sound, Deleting Sound

Saturday October 31 15:00u With: Achim Wollscheid, Andrea Polli, Christoph Korn, Derek Holzer, Lasse-Marc Riek, Roland Etzin.

Whatnight #3 is curated by Gruenrekorder and will be hosted by Tobias Fischer.

15:00-17:00u De Pont museum of contemporary art
20:00- 00:00u @BCM

In the auditorium of museum De Pont (15:00-17:00) the opening will be by Tobias Fischer, followed by a presentation by Christoph Korn and Andrea Polli and a ‘Soundwalk’ by Andrea Polli.
After 8 o’clock the program will continue in @BCM (Wilhelminapark 53) with performances by and installations by Achim Wollscheid, Roland Etzin, Lasse-Marc Riek en Derek Holzer.

Check he site of Whatspace for more info.

Monday 21st of September Vaast Colson drove through the city in this Hummer H2 while playing on his stereo really, really, really loud crying noises. This was his way to show his  sadness about the festival being over already. Whatspace have put online some cool pics of this cool action.