What struck us at first when discovering the work of Janne Schimmel was his way of highlighting the beauty and sculptural aspect of hardware. When opening the box that is our computer, Janne re-curate its display without necessarily changing its function. By manipulating its aesthetic, Janne allows the hardware to become an interface between the physical world and the digital realm.

This interest for modding is at the heart of Janne’s Schimmel practice and a crucial movement within digital culture. His work is about hardware, obsolescence, memories, alternative storytelling. “

His work aligns with the right-to-repair movement, the modding community, and the broader discourse against digital enclosures. It reclaims creative and technological agency from an industry that is made on built-in expiry

 is an exhibition, curated with the artist, that showcases the modded consoles as sculptural vessels for games and videos created by guest artists. The invited artists come from a range of backgrounds, including media art and the homebrew community. Homebrew creators develop games outside of the game industry, outside of the norm, reinventing rules and mechanics for consoles considered obsolete. Together they are retroactively diversifying the library of these consoles and activating existing hardware instead of creating needs for new ones. Janne and Sickhouse collaborated with the invited artists to present their videos and games on the obsolete hardware embedded within his sculptures.

The exhibition welcomes the work of Janne together with projects from 

Paula Garcia Sans, B-Complex, Permacab, Vinzenz Sombray, Philip Ullman, astoryinpieces, Grenhunterr.



The exhibition will open on Friday 20-03 at 19:00 and run until Sunday 10-05. You can visit the exhibition on Friday’s and Saturday’s or on appointment with groups.




19:00 Walk-in 
19:30 small interview of Janne Schimmel by Marie Janin to look into his practice and the development of the new piece “Friendly Secrecy System” created with Vinzenz Sombray (In the cinema)
20:00 free tour in the exhibition space

Janne will also host two workshops in April to share his practice and support makers in their quest for alternative processes.

Participants are invited on a hike with the artist and create pixel-art interpretations of the view, compressing real-world vastness into the Game Boy’s 160×144-pixel screen. All the artworks will be bundled onto a Game Boy cartridge at the end of the workshop. Each participant will receive their own cartridge containing the collection.

Nintendo Wii-mote Permacomputing workshop, hosted with Rein van der Woerd



Participants are invited to imagine ways of re-activating Nintendo Wii-motes with contemporary software.

The exhibition will close together with a residency of Chloé Desmoiseaux, french artist and initiator of Fluid Space in Marseille. (more info coming soon)

Friendly Secrecy System - Janne Schimmel

Cinema Obscura is a curated film screening program focused on cult, experimental, and unconventional cinema, created by Aike Lutkemoller and Frank Schonewille many years ago.

In the early days, the films were never announced in advance and the spectators discover them either through the introduction by the organizers or even during the screening itself.

The program is challenging, controversial and unique. Each screening is meant to be a special experience, beginning at the moment you sit down in our vintage cinema chairs from 1936. You are invited to react, interact, discuss, scream, laugh and embrace the shared discovery of strange films.

Cinema Obscura will run throughout the year with a monthly screening. Some films will be announced, some will remain a mystery…

: Sickhouse! Oldenzaalsestraat 128, Enschede.
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Cinema Obscura 24.04

Cinema Obscura: Film Night 

Led by Rein van der Woerd and Janne Schimmel.



Join us for an experimental, hands-on workshop, where we bring the iconic Nintendo WiiMote back to life.
During the workshop, we will explore how to reactivate older gaming hardware through the principles of permacomputing. 

Our focus will be the Nintendo Wii, for which we will collectively create a homebrew video game that can be played on original hardware.The content of the game will centre on the imagined lives of Mii characters left behind when old Wii consoles are discarded. Through drawing, writing, storytelling, and game design, we will explore these abended digital characters.

No coding experience is required. Please bring a laptop and/or any materials you like to work with, such as a notebook, pencils, paint, or any medium you feel comfortable using to create images and ideas. If you own a Nintendo Wii and bring it along, we will show you how to hack the console so it can run homebrew games.


Ticket Wii Revisited - 25-04

WiiMote Revisited

Sickhouse & Nerdlab once again bundle their forces for a couple of amazing activities as a part of the Long-distance LARP project. This year we are organizing five digital role-playing games, starting with:


Transmission: a cosmic horror Zoom-based LARP

1987, Norfolk, England. A group of friends on holiday together are cut off from the world when a violent storm causes a blackout.A series of teletext broadcasts become their only connection to the outside world. But such broadcasts shouldn't even be possible during a blackout and they are getting increasingly personal...Something is dying to communicate.

For more Information on our collaboration and project discription visit : 

Transmission by Chloe Mashiter

Radio Galactica is a duo from Arris Unbound and Jordi Noire playing music from a spaced out universe to challenge you on the dancefloor! Expect Latin - Afro - Cumbia - Bollywood - World Psych - Caribean - Vintage disco - Global Club and more…

Vintage and modern music played from vinyls!


Radio Galactica #01

Our TableTop Game Nights are transforming! It is now time to introduce 

, a monthly role play event organised together with 

, for board games, cards, miniature painting or kit bashing…anything tabletop is welcome! We are also very happy to discover your own creation and be your play testers!

We will have a few RPG tables, hosted by someone from our community or a special guest and open tables for board games.

Come alone or with a group. Playing games is an excellent way to make new friends!

Bring your favorite games and share them with us, or try out some of our collection.


Whether you are a brand-new RPG game master, a game designer looking for playtesters, or have another type of activity in mind, we are looking for you! 

As a host, you can expect the following from us

Support from experienced event organizers

Materials such as dice for the table are available or can be arranged

: 18:00 to 23:30
> 18:00 walk-in, bring your food to eat together 🍲🥗🍛🥡
> 19:00 the games start
💎 

 Entrance on donation (with your donation you support the location and the two organization in getting new games, inviting guests and hosting special adventures). 

PLAY! TableTop Night 02

Hosted with Roos Groothuizen from .zip(online)


To hell with boring-ass brainrot scrolling on Instagram, let’s handcode our own sites again, filled with cool pictures, funny texts and cute games. Did you know that’s really easy??

Every month artists and creatives get together at .zip (Rotterdam) to work on their personal sites with HTML, CSS and Javascript. Sickhouse is joining in as a location. We will be connected via a screen :) When we get stuck on difficult coding challenges, we have each other to help out. At the end of the night, we’ll show off our pages, and join each other’s ‘webrings’.



 will talk about her ongoing research and the connection between magical thinking, web craft and rabbit holing — and how they can counter online fascism and homogenisation.




Kiara Jouhanneau (fr) is <an artist - curious - enchanted - a spirit - unidentified> working where the languages meet. Whether it be poetry, puns, rituals or CSS, she explores and weaves words together – often into hyperlinks. Website: 

 Introduction to Neocities and the Indie Web by Roos


 The web as craft & magical thinking by Kiara


 Let’s work on our websites! Introduction to documentation and sketching tips.


💻 Technical Skills : Both HTML newbies and pros welcome. Bring your laptop!
🍻 Free admission, bring your own food if you like, support Sickhouse with getting your drinks at the bar:)

Check out .

Neocities Coding Night - Build your own Digital Garden

From the depths of dusty film cans, late-night television broadcast, forgotten drive-ins and questionable basements… the monsters are returning, one by one.

 is a new cinematic ritual devoted to the glorious age of monsters, mostly from before 1970, and occasionally after, if the creature insists.

Every Monday night we summon all vampires, mutants, swamp creatures, radioactive nightmares, gothic specters, and all the beautiful horrors that crawled out of the golden age of monster movies.

The films will remain a surprise. We will discover it together in the dark…

Before the screening begins, we enter a one-minute meditation guided by the sacred mantra of 

 to properly align mind, body and monster spirit. Then the lights go down.

Grab a drink. Take a seat. Eyes wide open.

Movie Monster Mash 03.20

Movie Monster Mash

On April 18, Sickhouse becomes one of the stages of 

 that turns the city into a playground for new music.

Booster Festival is the showcase festival of East Netherlands. Musical talent from Overijssel and Gelderland will have the opportunity to present themselves to the music industry in the Netherlands. 

Every year, Booster brings together dozens of emerging artists performing across multiple venues, presenting the most exciting new sounds from the east of the Netherlands to audiences and music professionals alike. Expect a night full raw energy, and fresh talent pushing music forward.

Einder - No barbie - Warda - Nelles - Peanut Butter Goldfish - Nomads Radio

Einder

 is the name of the musical adventure that Janko Bartelink and Danny Jeroense (alias Doolcirkel) have embarked on together. Through live improvisation, new, temporary soundscapes are created time and again, taking the audience on a journey through contrasting atmospheres.



 creates ambient and experimental soundscapes. With the field recordings frequently found in her work, you soon can imagine yourself somewhere far away, yet still close by. She keeps it small but you might will feel totally immerse. 



makes electronic lo-fi pop that whispers rather than speaks. Self-produced in a bedroom studio with little more than a laptop and synth, their sound floats between analog noise and digital textures – inspired by artists like PinkPantheress, Oklou, and Men I Trust.



 is melancholic, honest, and harder than ever before. The young adult band from Enschede tells bittersweet stories of lost loves, shattered self-images, and an escape into oblivion. With influences from alternative rock, shoegaze, and indie pop, raw guitars blend with dreamy synth layers and sultry vocals into a sound that is both comforting and confronting.


Peanut Butter Goldfish combines experimental garage punk with theater. Their stories are raw and unfiltered, with a dark, intense, yet hopeful and danceable energy. One moment you feel like a destructive madman and a possessed
dancer, only to crash down again as a fragile human being.



Nomads Radio is a three-headed whirlwind of surf and garage punk, anchored in poppy hooks and lyrics that balance personal anxieties and everyday absurdities. Think of the raw, melodic songs of Ty Segall and the untamable energy of Osees.


BOOSTER Festival at Sickhouse

All about eve from Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950 (138min)

💜 screening hosted together with Loren

by Mary Orr, All About Eve is a backstage story revolving around aspiring actress Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter). Tattered and forlorn, Eve shows up in the dressing room of Broadway mega-star Margo Channing (Bette Davis), weaving a melancholy life story to Margo and her friends. Margo takes Eve under her wing but quickly it becomes apparent that naïve Eve is a Machiavellian conniver who cold-bloodedly uses Margo, her director Bill Sampson (Gary Merill), Lloyd’s wife Karen (Celeste Holm), and waspish critic Addison De Witt (George Sanders) to rise to the top of the theatrical heap. 
(Also appearing in All About Eve is Marilyn Monroe :)


Come (re)discover this classic with us and discuss agism and expectations around women, bodies and generations!

All about Eve, FILM

All about Eve



Glitzineknubum is a seasonal zine making session to help us reflect and share what we did the last 3 months, away from social media! 
Sickhouse will support with printers, glue, glitter, colour paper, magazines… You can bring your photos (printed or on your phones and camera), bring your favorite material to create your own Glitter Zine Knutsel Album!

Come with your friends, your family or by yourself, it will be great doing this together and share memories, proud moments and little stories…

At the end of the day, for the ones who dare we will get rid of the surplus of images from the last 3 months and free our phones. (Bring your hard-drive if you need to save some!)

✨ 

 (you can walk in and out any time)
💎 

RESERVE YOUR SPOT

 Glitzineknubum - seasonal zine making


Whether you are a brand-new RPG game master, a game designer looking for playtesters, or have another type of activity in mind, we are looking for you! As a host, you can expect the following from us:

: 18:00 to 23:00 
> 18:00 walk-in, bring your food to eat together 🍲🥗🍛🥡
> 19:00 the games start
💎 

Agenda

Current and Upcoming