Beam Contrechoc

textiel , Figuratief , Experimenteel , Educatie , DIY , Digitale technologie , Design , Artistiek onderzoek

Unstoppable over production and waste generate feelings of shame which make us reconsider at the most serious level what we still really want to make and how. Inspired by the fact that humankind could easily be forced back to the Stone Age, inventive palaeolithic techniques and its materials, being sustainable and biodegradable by nature, are employed next to hyper modern silicon electronics, creating an artistic hybrid wearable story preparing us for the worst .

**Apocalyptic Outfits, Manifestations, Eindhoven, 2025** - Experimental Apocalypse Outfits In our pessimistic age of excessive energy, nonsensical production and new knowledge, we still make a mess of things by stupidly starting brutal wars from the Bronze Age. Once again, as designers, we are going on an Odyssey: a quest in which we combine past technologies with high-tech to strengthen our existing sense of community and ultimately achieve total peace and absolute happiness. These outfits interweave primitive techniques and stories from the Stone Age and Bronze Age with contemporary microcontrollers and high-tech materials. A layered approach connects new work with echoes of the past. Humor softens the weight of conflict. Thus, they are a mirror for how we move through the world: struggling, searching, sometimes fighting-but always imagining another way forward.

**Werkplaats Altaar** - At the installation in Leffinge, Belgium, 2025, with also Evelien de Jong and Woody van Amen, and other artists. The ultimate attempt to achieve some peace with art (culture and social education). A cushion with an image generated by AI with the addition of own works, such as the outfit and the kite. It is an image of a church as a workshop, including a rocket that is launched. This image is incorporated into the installation in two ways, as a banner high in the church space, and as a cushion on the chair.

**Installatie, Leffinge 2025** - Bij de installatie in Leffinge, België, 2025, met ook Evelien de Jong en Woody van Amen, en andere kunstenaars. In the church of Leffinge, Belgium, altar workshops for peace. Art, as part of culture, as part of a social "education", learning to deal with each other in a human way.

**Goodbye Earth Flotilla** - Een ensemble van werken uit verschillende perioden. Met onder andere het Goodbye Earth Jacket. Tentoongesteld 2025 in de galerie Walgenbach Art&Books

**E-Textile NeanderThaler** - Presented during Next-M Event, Muziekgebouw, Eindhoven, 2024

**Die Geschichte Schneiderei** - Performance-presentation in Städtische Galerie, Bremen, 2022 interactive garments

**Zwei Rotterdamer ohne Kunstscheu** - Presentation of Interactive garments of Beam Contrechoc and graphic works of Hans Wap in Galerie Am schwarzen Meer, Bremen, 2024

**Soft Energy** - Dutch Design Week 2023 Garments with experimental self generating energy devices

Workshops Art and Technology

Locatie: Several locations in different countries

In e-textile summercamps, France, Poncé sur le Loir.
Fashion Tech Farm Eindhoven

Interactive garments

Experimental art, technology, design works
Showing: Goodbye Earth Jacket, shown during the show "Zwei Rotterdamer ohne Kunstscheu", Bremen, 2024

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