We grew a new project nursery: Penny for your Thoughts

Project Nursery

There is something uniquely inspiring when looking into artistic processes that are still in progress: unpolished, experimental, and open-ended. Penny for your Thoughts is our project nursery, where we stimulate and present project proposals.

But our garden is not big enough for all these beautiful seedlings.. Are you or do you know a person or place that can help realise one of these projects? Get in touch with the artist!

Do you also want to present your project proposal to us and our network? Send in your own proposal!

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Morphology of Sprout Leaves detail2 - Form der Keimblätter ca. 1850 German lithograph ca 1850 courtesy Wellcome Collection Publication: M. Formerg, Blattformen Tafel 1 : Lithographie, druck u. verlag von C. C. Meinhold & Sōhne, Dresden c. 1850 Lettering transcription: Form der keimblätter. keimende Ahornfrucht - Acer campestre, Ahorn - Acer campestre, Linde - Tilia parvifolia Reference: Wellcome Library no. 28434i

With:
Pauline Rip, René Nissen, Avery Franken, Lena Trost, Jennifer Kumer, Margherita Falqui, Roland van Dierendonck, Maro Pebo, Nina Anin, Azucena Sánchez, Bas Huijbers, Racha Tarazi, Anonymous, Lucie Majerus, Maaike Anne Stevens, Arthur Guilleminot, Mariko Hori , Thom van Hoek, Sieta van Horck, Si Knight, Alena Grahn, Viviana Selene M. Calderon de la Barca, Mario Mimoso, Krisztina Czika

From Ideas to Experience 

In the coming months we will be showcasing some of the proposals. We'll keep you updated.

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Rene and Avery eating a banana in beatle costumes - During Dutch Design Week 2021, Mediamatic presented the ' Inhuman Carnaval ' project at Natlab. As part of the program, collective Studio Nepco walked around Eindhoven in costumes of different beings. Photo taken by Avery Franken René Nissen, Avery Franken

With: René Nissen, Avery Franken
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Medieval man harvesting melons. - This image is part of the book Bodleian  MS .  Ashmole  1504 (' The Tudor Pattern Book ') by Bodleian  MS .  Ashmole, and was made in 1504. The book was also known as Ashmole's Bestiary. Pauline Rip

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Piss Soap During the Empathic Boot Camp to Disgust at the Utopia Opening - Piss soap   is made entirely out of human activity waste materials, including urine. All the raw materials needed to make piss soap can be collected on a local scale of a city and then redistributed for cleaning roads, streets or other public spaces. Piss soap is a challenging social product. By presenting itself as a product made out of gruesome elements, it carries a strong social stigma. Piss soap is a solution for city wastes but more importantly, challenges the inhabitants to decondition… Arthur Guilleminot

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Hot Pepper - Between pleasure and pain Half the planet is addicted to capsaicin, the working substance in chili peppers. It is described as a stimulant or even an aphrodisiac. There has been proven to be a relationship between capsaicin and serotonin, the love and happiness hormone Photo taken by Maro Pebo Model @natttguga Roland van Dierendonck, Maro Pebo

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Distillation mock up - Distillation is a process involving the  conversion  of a  liquid  into vapour that is subsequently condensed back to liquid form. It is exemplified at its simplest when steam from a kettle becomes deposited as drops of distilled water on a cold  surface .  Image Source Margherita Falqui

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Performative actions: ritual & ceremony in local ecologies in Spain - by Sieta van Horck and Rens Spanjaard ~Bodies of land~ is an ongoing research and experimentation to embody what it feels like to be entangled with the land.  Photo taken by Ana Torres Sieta van Horck

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Glass Tasting - Glass Tasting at cologne 2019-09. In context of 'She was like BÄM! meets Geliebte Parasiten im Pförtnerinnenhaus', Cologne 2019. Photo by Nadine Schwickart Fotografie Lena Trost

With: Lena Trost