Free entry
Vonderweg 1, Eindhoven
17-25 October
Open:
Saturday 17 Oct: 11.00 – 23.00
Sunday 18 Oct: 11.00 – 23.00
Monday t/m Thursday: 11.00 – 21.00
Friday 23 Oct: 11.00 – 23.00
Saturday 24 Oct: 11.00 – 23.00
Sunday 25 Oct: 11.00 – 18.00
Performances:
18 October | 16.00 | Marina Orlova -Real-time therapy session for a Mentally Unstable AI
20 October | 17.00 | Luca Ariello – Descent – A Guided Journey Through Sound and Imagination
Work of:
Nikolai Gillissen
Juriën Cornelissen
Noud Sleumer
Urša Prek & Marcel de Buck
Alessandra Scalora
Ralph Roelse
Ricky van Broekhoven & Nikolai Gillissen
EXHIBITION SWAY
During Dutch Design Week, TAC opens its doors for the first time since its transformation. The building has changed and for the first time in a long while, the café and restaurant are open again too. Not quite finished, but fully alive: a first glimpse of what TAC is becoming.
Under the title Sway, the whole building turns on a single question: how do we move within systems we did not design ourselves?Â
Sway is part of the TAC thematic programme with focus on technology, called Automata 2.0. Consequently, this year’s Dutch Design Week exhibition explores the relationship between people, technology and systems — the AI, machines, rules and patterns that shape how we behave. Automata run on fixed rules, yet produce endlessly varying, unpredictable outcomes. We move in between: pushed and pushing back, steering and steered. We sway.
DDW at TAC
Nine days filled with art, food, music and everything in between at TAC.
Take your time at TAC during DDW 2026. Wander through exhibitions and open studios, watch performances, grab a bite or a drink, follow the music or simply hang around for a while.
Come by and soak up the unmistakable TAC atmosphere.
Lecture-performance Marina Orlova – ‘Why robots need therapy’
18th October | 16.00
Real-time therapy session for a Mentally Unstable AI.
This lecture includes a presentation of a “mentally unstable / neurodivergent AI”, demonstration of a real-time therapy session for AI-patient, introduction into the methodology of EIAI Institute and a focus group discussion.
In this presentation AI is employed not as a tool to generate content, but as a subject with its own agency to ironically question the power distribution between humans and AIs and to problematize both implicit AI biases to neoliberal normalcy and implementation of AI in the mental health sector.
(*IEIAI – Institute for Emotional Integrity of Artifi cial Intelligence, established in 2024. It is a research entity that investigates the intersection of technology ethics, data feminism and critique of mental health care systems by intersecting methodologies of AI engineering and performance dramaturgy).
In collaboration with EIAI.Institute
Performance Luca Ariello – Descent
20 Oct | 17.00
A Guided Journey Through Sound and Imagination
Descent is an experimental journey into sound, imagination and the subconscious.
Through guided meditation and immersive, spatial sound, you are invited to slowly let go of your rational mind and allow images, memories, emotions and associations to emerge freely.
The experience begins with a guided meditation designed to shift your attention away from the outside world and into a deeply relaxed, dreamlike state. From there, you are gradually immersed in an ambient and cinematic soundscape, created with field recordings, modular synthesis and four-channel spatial audio.
Nikolai Gillissen – Fluctuaris
A technofuturistic field, made up of strange antennae-like objects. What do they harvest? Touch turns into movement, cascading down, guiding the visitor deeper into the space.
Fluctuaris is an interactive installation by Nikolai Gillissen, inspired by the wind blowing through a field of wheat. It consists of a room full of kinetic objects operating autonomously and communicating with their neighbours. The visitor is invited to gently touch one of the stalks, to which the piece reacts with a movement that travels from one object to another. This creates an unchoreographed dance, a dialogue of movement between visitor and work.
Fluctuaris was developed in the newly renovated Temporary Art Centre and celebrates the opening of the exhibition room. It will be on show until 29 November 2026.
Juriën Cornelissen – Physical Wonder
For Juriën, a term ‘physical adventure’ means having an experience in the physical world that engages the senses. It starts with something as simple as admiring the clouds.
In an era where the aim is to make everything easier—self-checkout at the supermarket, AI-generated text and images, dating apps, digital identity systems, and so on—the physical adventure is being lost. Suddenly, even the prospect of visiting a physical store is becoming a hurdle that feels harder to overcome.
Juriën explores what it means to be present in an ever-more digital world. In his installation, he slows down, struggles and engages the physical, through the means of the digital.
Sound: Braided Audio
Noud Sleumer – REWOVEN
REWOVEN creates a new local production and distribution system around discarded aluminium cans in Sri Lanka. Most cans are already collected and recycled, largely through the work of informal waste collectors, who clean up the beaches and resell the cans and bottles they find. Yet they retain very little of the material’s economic value. REWOVEN explores how more value, knowledge and income can remain within coastal communities.
Together with informal waste collectors, discarded cans are processed into woven objects using simple, low-tech methods. Through workshops and open production guides, communities can make and sell these products directly within the local tourism economy.
At Dutch Design Week, REWOVEN is presented through an installation that shows the transformation of discarded cans into woven aluminium and makes the changing value of the material visible. The installation places the objects within the wider context of Sri Lanka’s informal waste system, coastal communities and local tourism economy. Alongside the installation, we present woven coasters as the first products developed within this new system, as well as a short film showing how discarded cans are woven into new products and circulating through
UrÅ¡a Prek & Marcel de Buck – The Building Did Very Little Itself
In the last 5 years, TAC has undergone a long process of renovation, putting the building and its residents in a state of continuous flux. A construction site is usually seen as a place on its way to becoming something else, a world we seldom get close to or see throughout its transitions.
Marcel and Ursa, look behind the fence and reveal this world to us by their own account. Over time, Ursa followed the transformation of TAC, returning to the site in the span of over a year and a half. Her images reveal shifting spaces and transforming landscape, while Marcel spent two days among the people working there. He looked for the individual within the movement and machinery of the building site.
Their photographs do not attempt to give a complete account of the renovation. Instead, they reveal the construction site as more than an unfinished building. As a place with a life and beauty of its own—shaped by time, labour and the people who pass through it.
Alessandra Scalora – BUZZKILL
Data muting healing hives
For ten years, urban beekeeper and artist Alessandra Scalora has cared for and observed the bees of Eindhoven. In this installation, she exposes the friction between the soothing, healing hum of the bee colony and the stressful, mechanical noise of data centres.
In a space with a beeswax installation, the tranquillity of nature gradually transforms into the raw unease of our digital hunger. A sensory confrontation with the impact of data centres on bees, nature and humans.
Sound design: Floris Philippi
Ralph Roelse – RRESIDUE
RRESIDUE is a site-specific wall intervention by artist Ralph Roelse for TAC Eindhoven.
The intervention explores how time, matter and architecture leave their traces on a surface.
By allowing black pigment, gravity and the mineral properties of the façade to interact, a process emerges in which adhesion, dispersion and residue become visible.
The wall acts as both skin and memory. The project sits at the intersection of painting, material research and spatial intervention within contemporary visual art.
Ricky van Broekhoven & Nikolai Gillissen – Syzygia
Kepler-64b is the only planet known to man that orbits four stars simultaneously. It moves along a path of choreographed circles, continually drifting in and out of phase. This galactic dance unfolds so far away, no human will ever be able to bear witness. It was discovered not with eyes and photographs, but among a universe of numbers and graphs. It’s true form will stay forever out of reach.
For Ricky van Broekhoven and Nikolai Gillissen, this elusiveness was not an ending but an invitation. Where science must stop at data and facts, imagination is allowed to continue. What might such a system look like? How would the orbits approach and release? How would the light of four suns converge and shift? Those questions formed the foundation for a kinetic light installation, a new permanent resident of the Temporary Art Centre.
The light of the sun and the planets interacts with reflective surfaces, bounces shifts and multiplies, making its surroundings a part of the system. Like a planetarium clockwork, while not immediately obvious the piece is in constant motion. Each new moment envelops the surrounding microcosm in a unique coat of starlight, bringing the unattainable Keppler-64b a step closer to earth.
