September 2 - Oktober 29
Official opening to be announced

The geometry, the structure, the materiality, the texture, the finishing; all contest the reciprocity of construction and detail through the rules of the properties themselves. Studio Mieke Meijer (Mieke Meijer and Roy Letterlé) construct aesthetics with the utmost necessity. With industrial knowledge, they return to a more manual craft in order to accommodate all the facets of their work. As they move closer, things get more specific. As man takes control in the anthropocene, do we actually get closer to an existential quality? 

Perspective, scale and proportionality are key to the work of Studio Mieke Meijer. In the exhibition at Onomatopee, its design will release different perspectives onto the work, stimulating an analytical disposition to trigger your awareness of the properties concerned. Experience and information are in a constant loop with one-another. 

This exceptional exhibition, inspired by the practice of the Studio, triggered a further, more abstract and critical exploring of the construction of aesthetics on the fracture of architecture and interior design, the interior object as a research proposition and the fundamental case of aesthetic approximation. The visual fabrication of aesthetics will be targeted both in the graphic transfer of the photographed work in the publication as well as in the accompanying texts.

The centre of the city is the place for meeting and consumption. That is where everyone goes, that’s where our culture is consumed and lived. However, the offering there is limited, and not a lot is allowed. It’s not everybody’s space, but the space of the majority. Even for that majority, there is no free choice, so it is also place to the silent majority. Meanwhile, every human being wants an inclusive culture, with free offering and free access. Our culture turns out not to be free, but forced.
With this project we ask what could be on offer, and what perhaps ought to be. Many free-thinkers such as designers, philosophers, journalists, artists and others take space to explore this. In short: WE ARE THE MARKET! calls out to freedom in the capitalist commons, within the cultural production of the highstreet.

Onomatopee, organisor of this project, has a space for free imagination in the heart of Eindhoven. Here they provide their services free of charge - partially paid for by the spokesperson of the people’s sovereignty - yet hidden behind all the commercial force.
As an alternative, focused on public service of the interestless imagination as exclusive to the arts, Onomatopee goes onto the street in action against mollycoddling and in defence of an inclusive world: in ultimate stimulation of possibility. They make everybody question their role in our collective responsibility regarding public culture. Now the focus is on target audiences, life in bubbles alienates us and public space is becoming increasingly exclusive.

Our culture is our responsibility: we demand inclusivity!  

READ THE MISSION STATEMENT FULL OF CONFUSION CONTEXTUALISED HERE.

First achievements have happened and are on show, more are to follow.
Featuring: Harmen de Hoop, Snodevormgevers, David Blamey, Nolwenn Salaun, Jennifer Moon & Laub, Su Tomesen, Martin Krenn, MG&M Collective (Mosab Anzo, Gil & Moti), the Mona Lisa’s, Grupo Etcétera, The Temple of Tease, Vanessa Brazeau, Toine Klaassen, Jasper Griepink, Apparatus 22, Everyday criticality, Jasmijn Visser , Cindy Moorman and others.

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

September 2017- January 2018

A platform for various artists and writers, to explore contradictions and oppositions by reflecting upon gender issues, contemporary girlhood and object-subject relations. 
Featuring Mandy Roos, Gabriel Ann Maher, Olle Lundin, Janina Frye, Virginie Gauthier, Alicja Melzacka, Charlotte van Buylaere, Roberto Perez, Carly Rose, Daantje Bons, Camille Auer, Nasty Women and others. 

It’s because feminism has become a fashionable commodity now, that we’re in desperate need of a more inclusive and varied reflection on contemporary girlhood, cross-cultural feminism, and the relationship between gender, politics and philosophy. Sense and Sensbility wishes to explore oppositions and contradictions, in image and text, in theory and in visual modes of culture here and now. We try to make sense by getting together during changing situations, rather than define a status quo, and we try to be sensible, by embracing diversity within the interpretation of the theme.

October 7 - opening performance, 7 PM
October 21 - special DDW performance, 7 PM

 
This collaborative work by Gabriel A. Maher, Roberto Pèrez Gayo and Carly Rose Bedford elaborates on the relationship of feminism to the collective regimes of enunciation that produce it.

How do you orient yourself within this word? How do you orient yourself in a language that precedes you?

If we look from this perspective to the word FEMINISM, we can see within its translucent walls, a universe contained, a constellation of bodies, expressions, positions and territories. The word itself becomes a door to a space in which certain types of relations happen and are expressed in a particular form. We occupy a physical and mental space.

     Once I cross into that space,

     how do/can/must/may/ought   ’I’

     move/relate/interact/feel?

     And how would I describe it?

     A network of 26 feminist voices transmit