Shared Workspace Weerdjesstraat 69 is the co-working space of Erik de Geus, Eva van Boxtel, Guido van der Kooij, Ibo Ibelings, Jelle Reith, Wang Xoo, Sjef van Beers & Sjoerd Mol .
The Cowan Paradox and Other Inconveniences
Sjef van Beers
12.10.2024 - 9.1.2025
The Cowan Paradox, named after historian Ruth Schwartz Cowan, describes how time spent on housework had not decreased between 1870 and 1970, despite innovations in the household—the Industrial Revolution in the Home, as Cowan puts it. In the exhibition a number of works use the medium of the self scanner—an innovation that dubiously presents itself as automation—to explore the influence that the supermarket (and in The Netherlands specifically Albert Heijn) had in shifting the home from a place of production to one of consumption and changing domestic labour.
Open screen at SWSWS69
20.09.2024
20:00 - late
Come share your favorite online videos on the big screen and enjoy good company and cheap drinks, or bring your own.
This night we’ll be doing what most us already do on a daily basis: sharing funny, interesting or surprising online videos with each other. But now we’re bringing it in-person to our studio space!
Come by on Friday 20th of September, hook up your phone to the big screen at our studio and share what’s in your TikTok likes, Saved posts on Instagram or Twitter Bookmarks. You can shortly introduce your videos if you want, but you don’t have to. So bring your best content and some friends.
This night we’ll be doing what most us already do on a daily basis: sharing funny, interesting or surprising online videos with each other. But now we’re bringing it in-person to our studio space!
Come by on Friday 20th of September, hook up your phone to the big screen at our studio and share what’s in your TikTok likes, Saved posts on Instagram or Twitter Bookmarks. You can shortly introduce your videos if you want, but you don’t have to. So bring your best content and some friends.