Metro54 @ Dutch Design Week – This Is A Take Over (2019)

Type: Exhibition Design, Typography, Print Assets
Concept: Setareh Noorani and Jelmer Teunissen
Client: Metro54, Dutch Design Week
Build: Metro54 team, Setareh Noorani, Jelmer Teunissen
Photography: Zeniya Vreugdenhil, Rachel Moron

Transforming a space at TAC, Eindhoven, for it to present the works of four artists/collectives and host a week-long programme centred around the tensions between practices of remixing and cultural appropriation within contemporary urban arts and culture.

We see both the cultural institutions of the ‘fair’ and ‘white’ cube as rooted in colonial collecting practices that further the white gaze. Navigating the presence of marginalised perspectives and material cultures within this grid, we remixed Missy Elliot’s bars on remixing to form a hypergraphic mantra or spell.

This remix both facilitates and interrelates the works, situating them within a differentiated space that encourages reflection on the presence of Other voices and methods; drawing a parallel reflection between This Is a Take Over and other such cultural manifestations.