What are artists up to when they’re not on stage? You’re invited to come and take a look at their everyday business in De Brakke Grond. Time Window, the community-in-residence from Rotterdam, is doing a residency at Fringe. Artists from various disciplines move their work practices to Amsterdam for 11 days, and leave the doors open to the public.

About Time Window
Time Window is a collective of 50 Rotterdam-based artists, sharing space and changing the system. They share 1000m2 of working space between artists of various disciplines, ranging from performing to visual arts, and everything in between. In their biotope they created a sanctuary to independently develop work and find collective solutions for individual artists’ practices.

About the residency
During Fringe a delegation of the community will move to Amsterdam for 11 days. In the festival heart they’ll publicly do whatever they do at Time Window: rehearse, write, test new material, doing administrative work, eat, live, exchange knowledge, organize events and show new work. Meanwhile all other Fringe makers are invited to come and join.

The best of Time Window events are also coming to De Brakke(re) Grond:

Testival
A minifestival where artists get max. 5 minutes to show their work, no matter the phase it’s in. Within a few hours you’ll be flooded by performances, pitches, previews and experiments. During Fringe, Testival is also open for other Fringe makers.

Blessed mess-ups 
The life of the artist is full of failure, but always in secret. De Droominee (the ART-bishop) will lead a session for artists to speak openly about their blunders and missteps. By cringing together we’ll heal. Blessed be the ones that mess up.

TW.Wiki
TW.Wiki was born out of a shared love for life-long-learning and Power Point. Speakers get max. 6 minutes to do a good old show-and-tell about anything – as long as they don’t talk about themselves. During Fringe you’ll see the best of TW.Wiki so far and some new presentations by experts from Amsterdam (maybe also the festival director). Are there any questions?

Time tables are coming up. Check back later at this page, our website or Facebook.

Time Window is made by Stichting Transistor and all makers, with support from Stichting Bevordering van Volkskracht and DKC Rotterdam.