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Dutch Embassy - applying for a grant: http://www.netherlands-embassy.no/cultural%20cooperation%20programme.html
Venues: BLÅ (venue, 350pax) + Podium (Gallery) + Freddy Knox (daytime gallery, no late night activity) + Revolver (venue/club 200pax)
Line-up concept:
Best of Incubate:
- Knalpot
- K-Branding
- Sardonis
- Masshysteri
- Sylvester Anfang
- James Blackshaw
- Troum
- Gewapend Beton
- Rummelsnuff
- Klub Tilt (Tilburg based collective that organize hip and actually cool new disco / minimal parties here, could go well with Shari Vari)
For the visual artist / exhibition part, we have Remco Torenbosch, a young artist we worked with earlier last year. He will be doing a "MonumentMuseum", the first platform for the "monument" as a given. A bit vague, but more info when needed.
Just Dutch:
- Knalpot
- Klub Tilt
- Gewapend Beton
- Meldy Peaches
- Eklin
- Katadreuffe
- The Moi Non Plus
- Daily Bread
- Kim Janssen
- The Black Atlantic
- Jozef van Wissem.
For the visual artist / exhibition part, we have Remco Torenbosch, a young artist we worked with earlier last year. He will be doing a "MonumentMuseum", the first platform for the "monument" as a given. A bit vague, but more info when needed.
Mission Statement
Incubate is a community on Independent Culture. It encourages cutting edge encounters, explorations and engagements from artists, audiences and partners. Established by a group of young artists in Tilburg it started as a music festival, but soon broadened its horizon to other disciplines like visual arts, contemporary dance and experimental film. It is driven by artistic development.
With a passion for the unknown the festival serves as a creative hub in Dutch province. It's a place where artists, who practice questions or try to find the limits within the established methods of production, distribution and consumption, meet and engage with each other and the local environment.
Incubate champions a mix of new and emergent talent alongside established practitioners who already had an impact on Independent Culture. With 275 performances during one week and a mash-up of artistic visions, venues, media-partners and crowds, the festival questions the concept of the peculiar and the familiar, and manoeuvres between kicks and contemplation.
Artistic Vision
Tilburg is a city in the southern part of The Netherlands. It isn't big or beautiful, but it is vibrant. If you want to, you can quite easily organize your own stuff. It is also a relatively young city, in search for its own culture and identity. In 2005 Incubate started spontaneously. Maybe there was the need for a festival that focuses on the identity of the town: experiment, development and DIY. It was a combination of vision, guts and good luck. Now it's a multiple award-winning event.
Incubate is an artist run festival on Independent Culture. They might be in different stages of artistic development, but all have an impact on Independent Culture. It could be as an inspiration, could be as a conceptual initiator. We try to push the limits of performing and visual arts.
With a passion for the unknown the festival serves as a creative hub in Dutch province. It's a place where artists, who practice questions or try to find the limits within the established methods of production, distribution and consumption, meet and engage with each other and the local environment. The festival is driven by artistic development and by the development of its scene. It's not about trends, prestige or the next big thing. The development of the arts is the main focus of Incubate.
Incubate is aware of the difficulties and traps, we don’t want to become an entertainment only festival nor do we want to become one of those highbrow art festivals with a lot of chin rubbing and no fun. The balance is delicate. As Incubate is a festival on artistic development we always keep in mind the working ethics of the artist and the artistic criteria of the festival. With different and explicit themes we try to reflect on what's happening in contemporary culture. These themes also work as a visitors guide in an affluent program.
Ethics
Incubate is a festival on Independent Culture. We don't call it underground because that term has a negative ring to it. We don't consider ourselves a counter-culture festival. Independent Culture is a positive force in the research and development of contemporary culture. Independent Culture is an artistic and economic working attitude that runs through different disciplines, genres and styles. Of course it's a construct that tries to define rapidly moving scenes, but it helps us in defining our ethics. According to scientific research (by T. Heesterbeek, University of Maastricht, 2002) that attitude can be defined by the slightly three muskateer-esque values freedom, equality and brotherhood.
-Freedom is the autonomous attitude of the artist towards work and expression.
-There's an Equality among artists and between artists and audience.
-Brotherhood is seen in the fact that artists create their own network. They release music on each other’s labels, perform at each other’s functions, design artwork, master recordings for each other. Together they are building a social network in which the social capital is as important as the economic capital. Some would call this DIY or Do It Yourself.
Artistic board
Development is one of the key concepts in Independent Culture. Incubate is a part of this discourse. The choices we make come about through discussion. The artistic board provides the artistic director with input on projects and input on the long-term artistic plans.
The board consists of people with knowledge on different fields of artistic development. They are: Sascha Roth (artistic leader of WORM, Rotterdam), Sjak van Bussel (Antenne Record shop, Thu20, Trigga), Ad van Rosmalen (coordinator at Avans - St. Joost Art Academies), Steffan de Turck (musician, Dim Records, Vatican Analog), Sonja Augart (Fragmenta, choreographer and performance artist) and Koen Delaere (visual artist, Whatspace). Next to the general artistic board, there are specific groups that advise on individual projects. They are selected according to the topic and discipline of the project.
Criteria
By resisting obvious programme and modes of production wherever possible, Incubate triggers a wide set of emotions and thoughts. In selecting which artists and projects are interesting for Incubate , we think about the following criteria:
- Is the artist's work attuned to their particular time and place, to the extent that this affects the work that they make and the way that they make the work?
- Is the artist investigating, testing and taking artistic risks in the interests of creating work that is authentic to the present?
- Is the artist relying on established ideas and forms only to the extent that they are pertinent to this task?
- Does the artist have a wider awareness of current and past developments in their discipline in particular, and in culture and society more generally?
- Incubate never books an artist twice. But sometimes an artist changes position in his or her artistic workfield, and can become a guest curator or a participant in a special production attuned to their development.
Evaluation
Because of its nature it is unlikely that all critics will like all of the work Incubate presents, but to some degree that is precisely the point of such practice, to challenge and assault conceptions. Incubate monitors its impact by means of feedback from the community via social media, artist surveys and the feedback of the artistic board. By using media partners Incubate also gets a lot of guaranteed critical feedback. We hope it will help us develop a rewarding place for artists, audiences and partners.
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Dutch Embassy - applying for a grant: http://www.netherlands-embassy.no/cultural%20cooperation%20programme.html
Venues: BLÅ (venue, 350pax) + Podium (Gallery) + Freddy Knox (daytime gallery, no late night activity) + Revolver (venue/club 200pax)
Line-up concept:
Best of Incubate:
- Knalpot
- K-Branding
- Sardonis
- Masshysteri
- Sylvester Anfang
- James Blackshaw
- Troum
- Gewapend Beton
- Rummelsnuff
- Klub Tilt (Tilburg based collective that organize hip and actually cool new disco / minimal parties here, could go well with Shari Vari)
For the visual artist / exhibition part, we have Remco Torenbosch, a young artist we worked with earlier last year. He will be doing a "MonumentMuseum", the first platform for the "monument" as a given. A bit vague, but more info when needed.
Just Dutch:
- Knalpot
- Klub Tilt
- Gewapend Beton
- Meldy Peaches
- Eklin
- Katadreuffe
- The Moi Non Plus
- Daily Bread
- Kim Janssen
- The Black Atlantic
- Jozef van Wissem.
For the visual artist / exhibition part, we have Remco Torenbosch, a young artist we worked with earlier last year. He will be doing a "MonumentMuseum", the first platform for the "monument" as a given. A bit vague, but more info when needed.
Mission Statement
Incubate is a community on Independent Culture. It encourages cutting edge encounters, explorations and engagements from artists, audiences and partners. Established by a group of young artists in Tilburg it started as a music festival, but soon broadened its horizon to other disciplines like visual arts, contemporary dance and experimental film. It is driven by artistic development. With a passion for the unknown the festival serves as a creative hub in Dutch province. It's a place where artists, who practice questions or try to find the limits within the established methods of production, distribution and consumption, meet and engage with each other and the local environment.
Incubate champions a mix of new and emergent talent alongside established practitioners who already had an impact on Independent Culture. With 275 performances during one week and a mash-up of artistic visions, venues, media-partners and crowds, the festival questions the concept of the peculiar and the familiar, and manoeuvres between kicks and contemplation.
Artistic Vision
Tilburg is a city in the southern part of The Netherlands. It isn't big or beautiful, but it is vibrant. If you want to, you can quite easily organize your own stuff. It is also a relatively young city, in search for its own culture and identity. In 2005 Incubate started spontaneously. Maybe there was the need for a festival that focuses on the identity of the town: experiment, development and DIY. It was a combination of vision, guts and good luck. Now it's a multiple award-winning event.
Incubate is an artist run festival on Independent Culture. They might be in different stages of artistic development, but all have an impact on Independent Culture. It could be as an inspiration, could be as a conceptual initiator. We try to push the limits of performing and visual arts.
With a passion for the unknown the festival serves as a creative hub in Dutch province. It's a place where artists, who practice questions or try to find the limits within the established methods of production, distribution and consumption, meet and engage with each other and the local environment. The festival is driven by artistic development and by the development of its scene. It's not about trends, prestige or the next big thing. The development of the arts is the main focus of Incubate.
Incubate is aware of the difficulties and traps, we don’t want to become an entertainment only festival nor do we want to become one of those highbrow art festivals with a lot of chin rubbing and no fun. The balance is delicate. As Incubate is a festival on artistic development we always keep in mind the working ethics of the artist and the artistic criteria of the festival. With different and explicit themes we try to reflect on what's happening in contemporary culture. These themes also work as a visitors guide in an affluent program.
Ethics
Incubate is a festival on Independent Culture. We don't call it underground because that term has a negative ring to it. We don't consider ourselves a counter-culture festival. Independent Culture is a positive force in the research and development of contemporary culture. Independent Culture is an artistic and economic working attitude that runs through different disciplines, genres and styles. Of course it's a construct that tries to define rapidly moving scenes, but it helps us in defining our ethics. According to scientific research (by T. Heesterbeek, University of Maastricht, 2002) that attitude can be defined by the slightly three muskateer-esque values freedom, equality and brotherhood.
-Freedom is the autonomous attitude of the artist towards work and expression.
-There's an Equality among artists and between artists and audience.
-Brotherhood is seen in the fact that artists create their own network. They release music on each other’s labels, perform at each other’s functions, design artwork, master recordings for each other. Together they are building a social network in which the social capital is as important as the economic capital. Some would call this DIY or Do It Yourself.
Artistic board
Development is one of the key concepts in Independent Culture. Incubate is a part of this discourse. The choices we make come about through discussion. The artistic board provides the artistic director with input on projects and input on the long-term artistic plans.
The board consists of people with knowledge on different fields of artistic development. They are: Sascha Roth (artistic leader of WORM, Rotterdam), Sjak van Bussel (Antenne Record shop, Thu20, Trigga), Ad van Rosmalen (coordinator at Avans - St. Joost Art Academies), Steffan de Turck (musician, Dim Records, Vatican Analog), Sonja Augart (Fragmenta, choreographer and performance artist) and Koen Delaere (visual artist, Whatspace). Next to the general artistic board, there are specific groups that advise on individual projects. They are selected according to the topic and discipline of the project.
Criteria
By resisting obvious programme and modes of production wherever possible, Incubate triggers a wide set of emotions and thoughts. In selecting which artists and projects are interesting for Incubate , we think about the following criteria:
- Is the artist's work attuned to their particular time and place, to the extent that this affects the work that they make and the way that they make the work?
- Is the artist investigating, testing and taking artistic risks in the interests of creating work that is authentic to the present?
- Is the artist relying on established ideas and forms only to the extent that they are pertinent to this task?
- Does the artist have a wider awareness of current and past developments in their discipline in particular, and in culture and society more generally?
- Incubate never books an artist twice. But sometimes an artist changes position in his or her artistic workfield, and can become a guest curator or a participant in a special production attuned to their development.
Evaluation
Because of its nature it is unlikely that all critics will like all of the work Incubate presents, but to some degree that is precisely the point of such practice, to challenge and assault conceptions. Incubate monitors its impact by means of feedback from the community via social media, artist surveys and the feedback of the artistic board. By using media partners Incubate also gets a lot of guaranteed critical feedback. We hope it will help us develop a rewarding place for artists, audiences and partners.
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“But there is indeed a common code in the diverse workings of the network enterprise. It is made of many cultures, many values, many projects, which cross through the minds and inform the strategies of the various participants in the networks, challenging at the same pace as the network’s members, and following the organizational and cultural transformation of the units of the network. It is a culture, indeed, but a culture of the ephemeral, a culture of each strategic decision, a patchwork of experiences and interests, rather than a charter of rights and obligations.”
Manuel Castells - The rise of the network society
Independent Culture is developing. Digital media and cheap transit stimulated an independent network of artists, labels, bookers, galleries and curators. At the same time this globalization process is threatening Independent Culture. Traditional festivals and media more and more focus on the obvious. They bring the ubiquitous avant-garde, or the standard entertainment. Often they don't engage with the local environment.
Incubate is a community on Independent Culture. It serves as a creative hub in Dutch province. It's a place where international and local artists, audiences and media engage. Incubate also operates in a network of co-production. According to research Incubate attracts 25% international visitors. 73% of the artists came from abroad. It drew press from all over Europe.
What makes Incubate special? It's the vibrancy, the scale, the broadness and the depth. Like Drowned in Sound wrote: "Shining though the depressing morass of the now ubiquitous festival Incubate is a truly remarkable annual endeavour: Put together with passion, wit, intelligence and a fervent integrity and commitment to Independent Culture (the festival's subtitle), it redefines and simultaneously clarifies the potential for events of this ilk.... without having to compromise itself or secrete itself away in an elitist hidey hole." We bring the high and the low, the rational thought and the entertainment.
One-off events like Incubate have a landmark function. Unlike the usual cultural facilities in a region like pop and jazz venues, musea and funfairs some events add a daring touch to a region. It brings international artists to the region and regional artists to international partners. Incubate signalizes: Independent Culture feeds the arts scene and the commercial scene. The festival draws professionals from profit as well as non-profit organizations. It draws agents, promoters, label bosses as well as trend watchers and lifestyle journalists. With this function it's the research and development departement of society as a whole.
Richard Florida argues that the level of regional economic development depends on the levels of technology, talent, and tolerance that regions harbour. Tolerance, in this case, is a measure for diversity of lifestyles, the creativity that results from it and population's openness towards non-traditional lifestyles. Incubate adds non traditional lifestyles and daring social visions to the local landscape and thereby increases tolerance. Which in turn increases economic development.
Incubate stimulates the innovative power of the region. Relatively a lot of young people and students live in Tilburg according to Atlas voor Gemeenten '07 but it has a detaining percentage of the the creative class. It also scores relatively low on start ups. The same for creative industries (rank 34 of the 50 biggest cities in The Netherlands). Educated people leave. Incubate stimulates the business climate. Incubate is giving a theatre-impulse. According to Atlas voor Gemeenten ’07 Tilburg brings relatively few theatre performances (less then 2 per 1000 inhabitants, rank 35 AvNl.) Incubate brings new and other theatre to the region.
Within a professional context Incubate brings art that is normally not presented in a professional context. Because of the volume, the marketing and the service these art forms find their way to mainstream media and a bigger crowd. It often picks up bigger themes that are manifest in the undercurrents and brings them to the surface of bigger crowds and media. It also picks up artists whose work has not been shown in The Netherlands like Sun Ra Arkestra, Hermann Nitsch and Jacob Kirkegaard.
Incubate works with bigger artistic themes and combines them. This connects artists and audiences. Incubate contributes to cultural participation. It engages new audiences into the arts. Besides that it creates new sites like pubs and a synagogue for the arts.
Manuel Castells - The rise of the network society
Independent Culture is developing. Digital media and cheap transit stimulated an independent network of artists, labels, bookers, galleries and curators. At the same time this globalization process is threatening Independent Culture. Traditional festivals and media more and more focus on the obvious. They bring the ubiquitous avant-garde, or the standard entertainment. Often they don't engage with the local environment.
Incubate is a community on Independent Culture. It serves as a creative hub in Dutch province. It's a place where international and local artists, audiences and media engage. Incubate also operates in a network of co-production. According to research Incubate attracts 25% international visitors. 73% of the artists came from abroad. It drew press from all over Europe.
What makes Incubate special? It's the vibrancy, the scale, the broadness and the depth. Like Drowned in Sound wrote: "Shining though the depressing morass of the now ubiquitous festival Incubate is a truly remarkable annual endeavour: Put together with passion, wit, intelligence and a fervent integrity and commitment to Independent Culture (the festival's subtitle), it redefines and simultaneously clarifies the potential for events of this ilk.... without having to compromise itself or secrete itself away in an elitist hidey hole." We bring the high and the low, the rational thought and the entertainment.
One-off events like Incubate have a landmark function. Unlike the usual cultural facilities in a region like pop and jazz venues, musea and funfairs some events add a daring touch to a region. It brings international artists to the region and regional artists to international partners. Incubate signalizes: Independent Culture feeds the arts scene and the commercial scene. The festival draws professionals from profit as well as non-profit organizations. It draws agents, promoters, label bosses as well as trend watchers and lifestyle journalists. With this function it's the research and development departement of society as a whole.
Richard Florida argues that the level of regional economic development depends on the levels of technology, talent, and tolerance that regions harbour. Tolerance, in this case, is a measure for diversity of lifestyles, the creativity that results from it and population's openness towards non-traditional lifestyles. Incubate adds non traditional lifestyles and daring social visions to the local landscape and thereby increases tolerance. Which in turn increases economic development.
Incubate stimulates the innovative power of the region. Relatively a lot of young people and students live in Tilburg according to Atlas voor Gemeenten '07 but it has a detaining percentage of the the creative class. It also scores relatively low on start ups. The same for creative industries (rank 34 of the 50 biggest cities in The Netherlands). Educated people leave. Incubate stimulates the business climate. Incubate is giving a theatre-impulse. According to Atlas voor Gemeenten ’07 Tilburg brings relatively few theatre performances (less then 2 per 1000 inhabitants, rank 35 AvNl.) Incubate brings new and other theatre to the region.
Within a professional context Incubate brings art that is normally not presented in a professional context. Because of the volume, the marketing and the service these art forms find their way to mainstream media and a bigger crowd. It often picks up bigger themes that are manifest in the undercurrents and brings them to the surface of bigger crowds and media. It also picks up artists whose work has not been shown in The Netherlands like Sun Ra Arkestra, Hermann Nitsch and Jacob Kirkegaard.
Incubate works with bigger artistic themes and combines them. This connects artists and audiences. Incubate contributes to cultural participation. It engages new audiences into the arts. Besides that it creates new sites like pubs and a synagogue for the arts.
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