Incubate is the annual celebration of independent culture in Tilburg, the Netherlands. It is a festival exhibiting a diverse view on indie culture as a whole, including music, contemporary dance, film and visual arts. It brings more than 200 cutting edge artists in an intimate context to an international audience. Black metal next to free jazz. Refreshing art next to inspiring debate.
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Incubate Sweatshop

Copies of brand sweaters, shirts and jackets are produced on an immense scale in China. Since the original brands are unaffordable for the average Chinese person the cheap, illegal versions of these brands are very popular. Some companies that produce the ‘pirated’ versions of these brands are even created or supported by the Chinese government to be able to offer their citizens these so wanted luxury items. In the Incubate Sweatshop these ‘fake’ brand items are copied back to originals. Social design label KANT will adjust the items by hand and will add hand knitted and hand crafted elements to them. By doing so, a whole new form of copying emerges. Though a copy of a mass produced product, this ‘second generation’ copy is much more valuable than the original. The materials that are used in the reworking are collected through the Incubate community and the results will be displayed in public spaces by dressing the numerous statues in the city of Tilburg in them.

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Date Time Venue
Sun, 12th 15:00 -23:00 City centre
Mon, 13th 08:00 -23:00 City centre
Tue, 14th 08:00 -23:00 City centre
Wed, 15th 08:00 -23:00 City centre
Thu, 16th 08:00 -23:00 City centre
Fri, 17th 08:00 -23:00 City centre
Sat, 18th 08:00 -23:00 City centre
Sun, 19th 08:00 -23:00 City centre

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