AN INTERNATIONAL AVANT-GARDE OF STYLE-MAKERS WILL ENTER THE STREETS OF EINDHOVEN TO HELP BRING THE RIGHT, INCLUSIVE VIBES TO LIFE. WE WILL INFECT THE CITY CENTRE, AS IT IS IN THIS PLACE THAT THE SILENT MAJORITY’S EXCLUSIVE CULTURE HAS ITS IMPERIALIST BASE.
THEY WILL PERFORM UNANNOUNCED, AND DELIVER ACHIEVEMENTS RANGING FROM POLITICAL ACTIONS; TO THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES; TO SPATIAL INTERVENTIONS; AS WELL AS OTHERS THAT WILL ENGAGE THE PUBLIC IN THEIR OWN SEGREGATED ARENA. IT IS HERE THAT WE MUST BUILD DEMOCRATIC INCLUSIVITY BY WIDENING THE OFFER. READ THE FULL MISSION STATEMENT HERE.

MEANWHILE, AT THE ONOMATOPEE PROJECT SPACE, THESE "ACHIEVEMENTS" WILL BE DISPLAYED CONTINUOUSLY AS A FILM SHOWING THE ACTUAL WORKS, AND FORMATTED IN THE STYLE OF NEWS BROADSHEETS. IN PARALLEL, TO SERVE FURTHER ENLIGHTENMENT, SOME THOUGHTFUL REVIEWERS WILL BE HANGING OUT AT THE BAR, BOTH WILLING AND ABLE TO ENGAGE IN FURTHER SHARPENING OF THE STUFF THAT BEHOLDS US IN THE CHAINS OF THE CAPITALIST COMMONS.

First achievements have happened and are on show, more are to follow.
Featuring: Harmen de Hoop, David Blamey, Nolwenn Salaun, Jennifer Moon, Gil & Moti, the Mona Lisa’s, Grupo Etcétera, The Temple of Tease, Vanessa Brazeau, Toine Klaassen, Apparatus 22, Jasmijn Visser and others.

The theory-sparked bartenders, offering enlightening conversations over heavy drinks, include Robert-Jan Gruijthuijzen, Lietje Bauwens & Wouter De Raeve, Berit Fischer, Dirk Vis and others yet to be announced!

September 2017- January 2018

featuring Mandy Roos, Gabriel Ann Maher, Olle Lundin, Janina Frye, Lara Konrad, Kristen Cochrane, Alicja Melzacka, Charlotte van Buylaere

Feminism has now become such a fashionable commodity, that we’re in dire need of real reflection on the variety of the topics within it. In Sense and Sensibility, four local artists team up with international writers to research gender trouble, queer issues, riot grrrl and object oriented ontology and more in exhibitions, reading groups and performances in and around Chelsea Clinton’s bedroom. 

Zine launch and opening: September 2nd, 16:00

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ’my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”
― Isaac Asimov           

In 1835, the French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville wrote "De la démocratie en Amérique", it describes democracy as a system in which everyone is promised happiness, but where there is hardly any room for strong, exalted, and glorious feelings; such as pride, heroism, glory and honour. In a time where the border between politics and entertainment is challenged, social media provides a platform where one can express these feelings - more or less anonymously. One can thus form an exclusive social group, in which bigotry, racism and discrimination against others are openly expressed. Populist politics loves to play with this.

Artist Erik Vermeulen got fed up with the xenophobic comments on social media, and how the messages on that medium are becoming more and more simplistic. The Brussels attacks on March 22, 2016 were the turning point for Erik. He started looking for a way to depict the underlying dynamics of social media and populism, by collecting the comments that irritated him; he also made a private collection of the commentator’s profile pictures.Who are the people behind these vile messages? And why would these people choose, for example, a lama as a profile picture? The ignorant could maybe become human again.