| Location(s) | Tilburg, Netherlands |
|---|---|
| Years active |
2005 - 2009 (as ZXZW) 2009 - present (as Incubate) |
| Date(s) | Medio September |
| Genre | Rock, Alternative rock, Indie rock, Dance, World music, Punk rock, Electronic music, Reggae, Folk music, Metal, Visual arts, Film. |
| Website | http://www.incubate.org |
Incubate is a multidisciplinary arts festival in Tilburg, the Netherlands. On June 16 2009, the festival changed its name into Incubate after a request[1] by the Austin, US based festival SXSW to change its name. Between 2005 and 2008 the festival was called ZXZW.
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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. Street art next to academic dance.
In 2005 ZXZW started as a two-day underground punk, hardcore and electronic music festival with 47 artists. Within three years it developed into a festival which spreads over 8 days and welcomes over 200 artists. The festival not only broadened its program by adopting a wide range of musical styles (from jazz to free folk and dance), but also by programming film, lectures and visual arts. All this happens in small clubs, pubs and galleries around Tilburg. In 2008 the people of Tilburg voted for ZXZW as the best event in their town.[2]
Incubate has an independent culture blog,[3] a blog on non-Western dance music,[4] hosts several art-nights throughout the year and released the Social Festival Model: a wiki-styled website (using wetpaint) where everybody can read and alter the business, marketing and policy plans.[5]
Incubate has grown over the years (as ZXZW between 2005–2008) from a one day music event with a pre-party to a multidisciplinary art festival lasting more than a whole week in 2009.
The first edition of the ZXZW festival, between September 24 and September 25, featured 48 acts on 7 locations.[6] It was started by Ries Doms, Vincent Koreman, Alex van Wijk and Frank Kimenai.
| Artform | Artists (Selection) |
|---|---|
| Music | Pole, Leng Tch'e, Static, Rise and Fall, About, Templo Diez, Sickboy, Dead Stop, Transmission0, Sauron, Harmful, Cavemen Speak, Fuck-Off Machete, Campsite, Restless Youth, Anderson, Black Earth, Hitch, El Guapo Stuntteam, MANASYt, Aphasic, White Circle Crime Club, The Suicidal Birds, Stockholm Syndrome, Suma, chang ffos, Galatasaray, Woost, Kassen, Danny Vera, Spider Rico, Eavesdropper, The Yearlings, The Light Brigade, Palinckx, Represailles, Hawai, Walker Diver, FCKN'BSTRDS, tschilp, Karl Heinz, Neo en Manu, patrick delabie, tom wolkers, Anal Warrior, Temlo Diez, Havelinas, fckn wckd krew & friends |
The second festival was between September 23 and September 24 and featured 94 acts[7] on 11 locations.
| Artform | Artists (Selection) |
|---|---|
| Music |
Good Good, Sylvester Anfang, Volt, CWTAB, Radio Birdman, Torche, Japanter, Offecer Jones, Baroness, Bluebird, Mormo + C-men, Arsey Rob, VVM, Otto von Shie, Sedan Vault, Justice(BE), Addactio, Kunt, Shitmat, Mash Up Sound, P.catanis, Fear Falls, Amen Ra, Messer Chups, Gorilla Agred, Rise and Fall, Skullhog, Brown, Sauna West, Orange Sunshine, S. en ik, Drama, ET explore me, Odal, Otis, Harry Merry, Zea, The Madd, Tom Musca, Engine of Doom, Terg, Embrace Fire, Prostitute Disfi, Amp3sant, Gieskes, CH. & Gallus, Bend Moust, Machinefabriek, Bertin, Hitmachine, Jullie Mittens, XanaxasaX, New Quartet, Tenement Kids, Toxocaro, Dimensiona Psy, Bloodbastards, Daturah, Causa Sui, Bronze, Blood Mar, Vuur, Tephra, Space Horse, Toner Low, Blend, Gasoline, Malle pietje, Labasheeda, Uw Hypo, Feverdream, |
The third ZXZW festival took place on September 16 and September 23. The volume of the music program increased to 151 bands that played at the festival.[8] There were also other art forms displayed this time: Visual arts, Dance and cinema were added to the line-up. ZXZW 2007 took place at 27 locations, one of those was a squat where young musicians played compositions by young composers. This concept was called ‘Kraaklink’ and has been continued as series the next years.
| Artform | Artists (Selection) |
|---|---|
| Music | The Haters, The Locust, Psychic TV, Crippled Black Phoenix, Pantha Du Prince, Drumcorps, Knut, Ceephax Acid Crew, A Challenge of Honour, Cutting Pink with Knives, Negativland, Atlantis, Meneguar, Infinity, Psychic Ills, Long Distance Calling, Chevron, Kap Bambino, Rhys Chatham, Ostinato, Niobe, Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat, Blowfly, Gtuk, Grey Daturas, Hacride and others. |
| Arts | Concert posters, Untitled, Scherven, Streetchalk Drawing Day, punk fanzine exposition, Tilburg Plakstad |
| Dance | Vloeistof |
| Movies | Short films, La Region Centrale - Michael Snow (1971), Cinema Auricular: Cinema of the Ear program. |
The fourth edition of ZXZW was hosted between September 14 and September 21, 2008. Most notable were the performances of the Sun Ra Arkestra. They performed six times in seven days at the festival, emphasizing different aspects of the musical legacy of Sun Ra every day.[9] New this year was the special program ‘Norwegian Invasion’ in which several Norwegian artists took a central place. Also there was a multidisciplinary program (‘Svart Kunststykke’) aimed at the black metal genre in both music (Watain, Glorior Belli) and the visual arts (Erik Smith, Peter Beste). The Shape of Breakcore 2 Cum was a program for electronic dance music and also the Eurovision Noise Contest was held.
| Artform | Artists (Selection) |
|---|---|
| Music | Wire, Pelican, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Sun Ra Arkestra, Castanets, Shining, Blacklisted, Paint It Black, Torche, Skinless, Watain, Cadence Weapon, gay against you, Doormouse, Otto Von Schirach, Goto80, Ponytail, Ladyhawk, FFF, Trash Talk, Guapo, Ebola, Pulling Teeth, Toy, Jeremy Jay, The Tunics, Tom Brosseau, David Karsten Daniels, Capsula, Religious Knives, Steadycam, Stu, Kid Carpet, Svarte Greiner, Glorior Belli, LFO Demon, Blurt, Usurper, Taint, Ladyscraper, Electric Kettle, Bjørn Torske, Phill Niblock, The Lords of Altamont, Tram, Dirge and others |
| Arts | Concert poster art: Z-Stock, Svart Kunststykke (Black Arts) – Erik Smith, Peter Beste and others |
| Dance | Vloeistof, Ivo Dimchev, Sonia Si Ahmed, Eva Meyer Keller and Magdalena Chowaniec |
| Movies | Space is the place, The Magic Sun and films made by Barbara Meter, Henri Plaat, Frans Zwartjes and Paul de Mol |
| Lecture | Yuri Landman |
The first edition of the festival with the new name Incubate[10] was from September 13 until September 20, 2009. The acts were confirmed daily on the Incubate website.[11]
| Artform | Artists (Selection) |
|---|---|
| Music | The Damned, Dananananaykroyd, Caspian, Anaal Nathrakh, The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Misery Signals, Tujiko Noriko, Antipop Consortium, Shackleton, Kayo Dot, Der Blutharsch, Of the Wand and the Moon, Deutsch Nepal, Soap&Skin, Joker, James Blackshaw, Bodi Bill, Bonaparte, Au, Jandek, Finn., Jessica Bailiff, My Awesome Mixtape, Blues Control, Your Demise, Cameron Deas, Wardruna, Subtitle, Uri Caine, Troum, On, Jonquil, Pompeii, Reso, The Caretaker, An Emerald City, DJ Beware and many others. |
| Arts | Hermann Nitsch |
| Dance | Costes, Franko B and Kamal Ackarie, Micheline Torres, Doris Stelzer, Pavlos Kountouriotis, Jenny Beyer and Nuno Lucas |
| Movies | Anvil! The story of Anvil, Aktionisten compilatie, Good Copy, Bad Copy plus more. |
| Lecture | Andrew Keen |
The sixth edition of Incubate festival took place from September 12 until September 19, 2010. The theme for this edition was Piracy. Around this theme several events were held, such as The Kiosk of Piracy, Pirate Cinema and the Pirate Conference. More info about this and other info about the festival can be found on the website.[12]
| Artform | Artists (Selection) |
|---|---|
| Music | Action Beat, Black Mountain, Dan Deacon, Six Organs of Admittance, DJ /Rupture, Headhunter, Liturgy, The Ex, Zola Jesus, Neon Indian, Expulsion, Lucky Dragons, Shikari, The Hunger, Jim Black, Frog Pocket, The Dreams, Accadians, Black Earth, Santa Cruz, Accelerators, Antillectual, Battle for Paris, Circle, Gunslingers, Maths, Skeletonwitch, Switchblade, This Will Destroy You, Warbringer, Windmill, Barn Burner, Invasion, Kodiak, Moon Unit, Traumahelikopter, Shaking Godspeed, Bongo a Bang Bang, Frank Fairfield, Hell Militia, Monotonos, DMDN, DJ UMB, The Superusers, Cold Pumas, City Boys, Fair Ohs, Great Ancestors, Forget to Forgive, Haribo Macht Kinder Froh, Bram Stadhouders, I am Oak, Coco Bryce, Bandish Projekt, Eklin, Globalibre, Sabbo, Vanderbuyst, Women and lots more. |
| Art | Ryan Trecartin, Hester Scheurwater, Tanis/Verhoef, Thomas l'Anson, Boris de Vries, Constant Dullaart. The project New Jacks, which started a year earlier was continued as New Jacks 2.0. The artists involved were: Sven Fritz, Matijs van de Kerkhof, Klaas Burger, Teun Jansen & Joshua van Iersel and Joshua Jackson & Anita Hrnic. |
| Film | Turkish Star Trek, Da Vinci Treasure, Snakes on a Train, Paranormal Entity and more. |
| Lectures | Charles Leadbeater, Matt Mason |
The upcoming edition of Incubate festival will be held from September 12 until September 18, 2011.
| Artform | Artists (Selection) |
|---|---|
| Music | HEALTH, Omar Souleyman, YOB, Baby Dee, Lightning Dust, Sam Amidon, Handsome Furs, Picastro, Obliteration, Kongh, Dark Castle, Capillary Action, Antilles, Austra, Wooden Shjips, Nadja, Screaming Females, King Dude, Aidan Baker & Nathan Amundson, Peter Broderick, The Fresh & Only's, Defeated Sanity, Gorgasm, Amagortis, Lustmord, Megafaun, Mater Suspiria Vision, Indian, Will Samson, Fostercare, Wheels on Fire, A Grave With No Name, Flying Horseman, Touchy Mob, SJ Esau, Herrek, Kyst, Library Tapes, Rivulets, My Disco, Celeste, The Kids, Yukon Blonde, Aura Noir, The Queers, Wormrot, Maruta, Planks, Le Syndicat, Ketzer, Heretic, Burning Yellows, Monachus, Light Bearer, Pariso, Kerouac, Matthew Shipp, Sleep Party People, Mose Giganticus, The Oscillation, Norberto Lobo, The War on Drugs, Moon & Sun, Zoviet France, Trial, Charles Gayle, Rainbow Arabia, Tweak Bird, Anchor, Mind Over Mirrors, Run With The Hunted, Peter James Taylor, EMA, Ganglians, Man Man, No Turning Back, Brasstronaut, Wise Blood, Dead Neanderthals and others. |
| Arts | T.B.A. |
| Dance | It's Definitely The Spiritual Thing |
| Movies | Hydra Decapita, We Don't Care About Music Anyway, NOVA - the film, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Paul Clipson, The Ill Mannered Milkman, Invertebrate, Goodbye Mr Christie. |
| Lecture | Bill Drummond |
Incubate takes place all over the inner city of Tilburg in the following venues:
Argument Vertoningsruimte, Bibliotheek Koningsplein, Bowling Alley Dolfijn, Cul de Sac, De NWE Vorst, De Verschijning, Duvelhok, Extase, Filmfoyer, Hall of Fame, Kafee 't Buitenbeentje, Koningsplein, Kraakpand / Squat, Kunstpodium T, Little Devil, Mayor's Room, Mustsee Bioscoop, Muzentuin, NS16, Open Air Stage, Paradox, Pieter Vreedeplein, Popcentrum 013, Ruimte X, Scryption, Sounds, Studio Tilburg, Synagoge, Theaters Tilburg, V39, Virginarty, Weemoed, Willemsplein, Zaal 16.