Four times a year there is a TAC event at the TAC | United location at Kleine Berg 62 in Eindhoven.
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Everybody else
Who comes from Eindhoven? Our city is growing – more and more people are coming to our region to work here. And they are not just tech professionals in hip offices. Brainport also attracts new artists and art lovers. They too are here to stay!
TAC is proud of these (inter)national Eindhoven residents. But…are we already really giving them a place and a chance? And are we opening up from the inside for all forms of diversity? This edition of TAC | United is about them. And about us. And about Everybody Else.
What can you expect when you enter a country where everyone is different from you? Artists Jing He and Qiaochu Guo welcome you with some lessons they learned from the civic integration exams in the Netherlands. If you want to know how to integrate in your home country, the Netherlands, come and watch and learn from our experts.
Prefer some mental comfort? Our personal self-care guru Ahn Sung Hwan will get every body into SUPER RELAX status with his dedicated yoga sessions. Or feel at home with like-minded people and join the special KONT Slow Dates for artists, thinkers, makers and enthusiasts.
This edition is about everyone else. It’s about a polite Chinese father who was once a mischievous rascal. It’s about digital strippers and cam girls with a good sense of style.
It’s about:
Qiaochu Guo & Jing He | Chongjin Chen | Ahn Sung-Hwan | Studio Groovido x Striptopia | Maja Irene Bolier | KONT – Slow Dates
Programme
Friday 10 June | 19.00 – 23.00h – Performances by Ahn Sung Hwan, Studio Groovido x Striptopia and Maja Irene Bolier & expo and installations by all other artists
Saturday 11 June | 19.00 – 23.00h – Performances by Ahn Sung Hwan, expo and installations by all other artists
Sunday 12 June | 15.00 – 18.00h – KONT Slow Dates | Please register in advance
Sunday 12 June | 18.00 – 21.00h – Expo and installations by all artists
We look forward to seeing you there!
Location | TAC United | Kleine Berg 62 | Eindhoven
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Ahn Sung Hwan | SUPER RELAX
Ahn finds something in common between the worship (and relics) that brought us comfort in the past and modern well-being. Custom-made, mass-produced foam rollers represent the individuals of our current times and will be in the expo hall. Come experience this installation mentally or physically. With this work, Ahn aims to create a discourse on how contemporary individuals can be defined.
Ahn Sung Hwan | SUPER RELAX
Chongjin Chen | Slippy snow and nobody grass
My father used to smear shit on ‘the weirdo’ of his village as a child. I want to get to know him beyond the images in my memory. Those in which he is a good, strict, law-abiding citizen. A person who would voluntarily clear the public paths in our neighbourhood of snow. A proud communist member raised with foolish loyalty to help others for the sake of honour.
For Chongjin, sculpting is an introspective contemplation and an embodied quest to understand what kind of person her father is.
KONT | Slow dates
Meetings between artists, thinkers, curators and anyone who wants to meet or collaborate with creatives. You explore what you can bring to each other in an open 1-on-1 conversation about what you do and want to do. Bring some of your work to show others! Want to participate? Send an email to maaike@kontmagazine.nl , and we will reserve your place.
KONT is a vehicle that initiates surprising collaborations between idiosyncratic makers, writers, thinkers, musicians, designers and non-artists. A KONT community has since grown – a fluid group of makers seeking to cultivate a safe space with each other and for each other, and to occupy a prominent place in society.
Qiaochu Guo, Jing He | Normal The Space
The artists are inspired by the current Integration Exam. Step into the interactive space to experiment with the notion and meaning of “integration” in a society. Not just as locals versus foreigners, but also about “us” versus “them” or alien versus native.
Studio Groovido x Striptopia | Digital Muses x Striptopia
Surrounded by a dreamy environment, you will be seduced and tricked into live interactions with performer and dancer Kami Million, a stripper invited by STRIPTOPIA. Studio Groovido provided the set, a dreamy environment in which everything happens.
Studio Groovido & STRIPTOPIA want to break down prejudice against sex workers and highlight their intrinsic and artistic value. Studio GROOVIDO is a product design studio by Gianmaria della Ratta and Giorgio Gasco. STRIPTOPIA is a project by the two designers Maggie Saunders and Erik Vlemmix.
Maja Irene Bolier | Film installation Heimwee – Where are you from? | Performance In all your filth & glory
‘Heimwee’ is about what we miss from the lives we left behind and how we take that with us into our new lives. ‘Where are you from?” is not always easy to answer for people raised in different cultures. The film work looks at what it is like, to leave your own country. The ways in which we (re)find a sense of home. Identity and belonging, navigating the space between our old life and our new.
For this project, Maja spoke to people living in the Netherlands after living a life elsewhere.
In All Your Filth and Glory is an exploration of desire, identity and sensuality crushed under the weight of half-forgotten childhood memories. Maja takes you from the wilds of Australia to the tidy streets of the Netherlands. She shares what it is like to belong in another country, searching what it is to be a woman in this day and age.
About TAC
Now that TAC’s old place is being renovated, we can be seen at various spots around the city. We like to connect with other cultural hotspots. In TAC | United, we present the newest, coolest, funniest, most sincere emerging art from in and around the TAC community. That what we always did, but now several times a year and packed into one weekend. Full blown TAC. In full connection.
You are most welcome!
Special thanks to United Cowboys for the location | Supported by Culture Eindhoven
