– Premises –

- if we understand everyone as an amateur in the dynamic face of progressive and experimental contemporaneity;
- If we understand contingency of opportunity a factor of artistic production;
- if we understand art as a dynamic service, rather than a static object only to be judged through a density of texts;
- if we understand the artistic rendition as a key to understanding art as a push for life;
- if we position the poetic momentum as a dynamic factor in engaging our subjective momentum;
- if we understand this dynamic as an open source of possibilities, rather than a paternalistic causal narrative;
>then how should the viewer engage, how should the art world deliver and how should artists position themselves in this arena? 

Exhibition# 2 of 2 – Onomatopee Eindhoven
August 25 – October 30
Opening August 25 

Featuring artists Philippine Hoegen and Alex Farrar

Opening August 25th.
Exhibition continuing untill September 30th.

We are presenting a visual manifest of the artistic and cultural creation process by emphasizing values placed on the production and handling of artistic goods. Our manifest takes place in local, global and digital contexts. 
 We are fascinated by systems of manufacture for art and culture as opposed to the romantic notion of the artist laboring in solitude within their studio. Here, places and objects compose and materialize cultural identity. Artistic meaning is not only found in a finished artwork. From planning to execution, it is embodied in every stage of the fabrication process. These works investigate how cultural traditions can be expressed in the different processes of making, collecting and preserving.

- Katrin Korfmann and Jens Pfeifer

Opening Augsut 25th
Exhibition untill September 30th

There is Nothing Connected, Nothing Distinctis a collaboration between sound artist Esther Venrooy and visual artist Hans Demeulenaere in which they set up a course of performative sculptures and objects where sounds and images flow into each other. This experimental set-up responds to the soon to publish research, by Esther Venrooij, considering sound and sound-art that includes the property of space to sound, and how these differ from music.

MODUS is a platform for expanded fashion practice through Onomatopee Projects, initiated and led by Ruby Hoette and Caroline Stevenson in collaboration with Roland Brauchli. 

MODUS will be in residence at Onomatopee throughout October with the launch of its first publication during Dutch Design Week 2018. Stay tuned for more details.

modus: 
a mode of procedure: 
a way of doing something 

Contemporary fashion culture is seeing creative practitioners actively seeking to challenge traditional practices and question the very definition of their discipline. While the mainstream fashion industry continues to uphold commercial boundaries, there are emergent practices that propose alternate value systems and thus different ways of thinking, doing and being fashion. These are expanded fashion practices: experimental methods, curiosity and criticality that have the ability to interrogate the social, cultural, political and environmental impacts of fashion and point to a future that transcends the current capitalist paradigm.

MODUS is a project to bring together and map these diverse and rich practices and provide a platform to bridge the divide between theory and practice in fashion. It will facilitate conversations between the practitioners working in this expanded field and writers/theorists from a range of disciplines including sociology, cultural and critical theory, politics and economics to help formulate new perspectives on fashion.

MODUS will take various forms from publications to events and workshops – all with the aim to establish an international research network that represents and supports this community of expanded practice.

October 22-28 2018
Curated by Sophie Krier
Daily Open Editorial Studio with guest interventions by Eddy Tarki, Inedition/Eva van der Schans (graphic designers), Lucy Cotter (cultural historian), and others (t.b.c.)

In Field Essays artistic production, design research, contextualisation and reflection as well as public release are conceived simultaneously. Field Essays is led by Atelier Sophie Krier and channelled through public gallery and publisher Onomatopee Projects.

Field Essays #3 consists in a residency by Paris based design duo dach&zephir developing their the on-going work-in-process and long term research Éloge Créole, Chapitre  2, Escale 1(Creole Praise, Chapter 2, Stopover 1) materializing the creole identity that is interwoven from leftovers of various source. The residency, during which there will be conversations with invited experts, will lead up to an exhibition that will take on the form of an “expo-valise”, an exhibition in a suitcase. We expect matters of caring concerns and objects rich in both meaningful as joyful stories.