An exposition, book presentation and public discussion with and by Domenico Mangano & Marieke van Rooy

The Homestead of Dilution exhibition will run from 24 June 2017, to 20 August.
Opening, talk and book launch: 6 July 2017, 17:00

Who do we allow to live among us and how do we exclude? With variable intensity the question whether psychiatric patients and people with intellectual disabilities can, may or should live among ‘normal’ people has been a subject of debate since the beginning of the twentieth century. The project Homestead of Dilution looks at the Nieuw Dennendal experiment (1969-1974) where psychologist Carel Muller and architect Frans van Klingeren devised an alternative model for ‘deranged’ and ‘healthy’ people to live and play together on the secure property of a psychiatric institution. Nieuw Dennendal, widely considered to be the most ground-breaking experiment in Dutch post-war health care, has become relevant again as more and more mentally distressed people appear in the streets.

Featuring Elisa van Joolen, Esther Stocker, Freek Lomme, Hansje van Halem/Tracy Widdess, Har Sanders, Koen Taselaar, Maria Hedlund, Sigrid Calon, Timon van der Hijden

The textures of our culture are reflected within the patterns we produce. Sometimes the surface that hosts the pattern is more slippery than imagined, or the pattern appears to have been too unstable in the first place.
As the ruler is held exclusively in the hands of man, why then is the pattern so tempting and why do we give into it time and time again? Extra more, as productive mastery is channelled through ever more abstract processes, digital tools and semi-finished particles, don’t we lose touch with the fundamentals of the pattern produced?

PUBLIC GALLERY AND PUBLISHER ONOMATOPEE HOSTS AN INTERNATIONAL AVANT-GARDE OF STYLE-MAKERS TO ENTER THE STREETS OF EINDHOVEN AND HELP BRING THE RIGHT, INCLUSIVE VIBES TO LIFE. THEY WILL PERFORM AN UNANNOUNCED POLITICAL ACTION / THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE / SPATIAL INTERVENTION / OTHER TO ENGAGE THE PUBLICS IN THEIR OWN SEGREGATED ARENA. THIS "ACHIEVEMENT" WILL BE SHOWN CONTINUOSLY AS A FILM AS WELL AS BEING DOCUMENTATED BY ONOMATOPEE.

WE WILL INFECT THE CITY CENTRE OF EINDHOVEN, AS IT IS IN THIS PLACE THAT THE SILENT MAJORITY’S EXCLUSIVE CULTURE HAS ITS IMPERIALIST BASE. 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 INCUBATING’S WILL BE REPRESENTED AND CONTEXTUALISED IN ORDER TO SERVE FURTHER ENLIGHTENMENT. IN PARALLEL, WE WILL ALSO HAVE THOUGHTFUL REVIEWERS HANGING OUT AT THE BAR, WHO WILL ENGAGE IN FURTHER SHARPENING OF THE BEAUTY THAT BEHOLDS US.

Exhibition will run from 27 May to 20 August 2017.

Open for business and conversation:
Friday 16:00 - 22:00, Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th, 12:00 to 18:00.

Saturday’s special at 16:30
talk with Chequita Nahar, juwelry designer and head fine art and design of the ABKM Maastricht.

The PAINT & POLISH nail-art studio by Chicago West Side creative entrepreneurs Jackee Blue and Glynnus Alexander will open to customers on Friday 26th, 16:00. The duo will continue doing nails and will be available to exchange artistic styles with local nail artists. They’ll also be hanging around on Saturday and Sunday for a chat. The studio walls will be covered in special wallpaper, designed by photographer/artist Maurene Cooper, inspired by the particular art of Chicago West-side nail art. Maurene will also be around.

Exhibition will run from 27 May to 20 August 2017.

OH MY GOD, LOOK AT HER BUTT!

Post-Butt analyses the virality of images in our mediated society. More rounded, it is a case study around the image of female butts, bootys, and behinds, and their influence in media, society and art. The butt is the protagonist of mass-mediated cullture, it is the democratic sex organ par excellence. The phenomenon of bootyfication exists in many contexts, as varied as the exploitation of the body in colonialism to 90s hiphop culture. Post-Butt goes through different periods in time and place, to analyse the political meaning of the usage of the image of the female buttocks. Then, it discusses the role of the booty in varied cultural expressions such as film, Internet art, music videos, dance and plastic surgery. Deep inside, Post-butt aims to reflect on how our society is conditioned by viral images, that do not only exist in the digital context, but have deep consequences on our physical world as well.