PELVIEW EXHIBITION
TILLATEC ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM
We have launched our first Artist Residency Exhibition: PELVIEW. Two artists have been selected to showcase their work in TILLATEC over a period of 2 months. We are transforming one of our empty spaces into an exhibition room that will be opened during club nights.
This way we want to merge nightlife and art, but also give our visitors the option to immerse themselves in cool installations when they want to step away from the dance floor for a bit.
PORTAL
by Beau van Hoydonck
Portal is an installation that explores light as a material through audiovisual compositions. Using optical illusions created by materialised projected light and sound, the installation transforms its surroundings into a hypnotising environment for the subconscious mind that stimulates the senses.
Can you introduce yourself and your practice?
I'm NVDP, a genderqueer artist whose practice interrogates the constructed nature of the body through 3D sculpting, digital fabrication, and collage. My work imagines queer and nonhuman bodies beyond binarism, drawing on science fiction, body horror, and feminist/posthumanist theory to explore the body as a site of resistance and generative potential. By embracing the glitch and the grotesque, I aim to challenge norms of utility, coherence, and technological perfection, revealing the body as a mutable, contested space.
How does your work relate to club / nightlife spaces?
As a queer person, club culture at its best is a site of liberation, where bodies, sounds and spaces collide to create something transformative. Nightlife thrives in the tension between grit and safety, darkness and exploration. My work mirrors that duality, embracing a weird, atmospheric beauty in otherness and embodiment while using transformation to challenge what bodies can be, just like the club does.
‘In the Process of Becoming Something Else Entirely’
by NVDP
‘In the Process of Becoming Something Else Entirely’ explores a series of prototypes for fictional bodies. It presents an assemblage of body parts, in the process of becoming imperceptible.
Through contortion and mutation, these bodies reflect both the beauty and the terror of what it means to be othered. The work proposes to see the out-of-place, not as a place of alienation, but as a place of possibility.
Can you introduce yourself and your practice?
Beau Van Hoydonck is a Belgian based light artist and scenographer working at the intersection of light, architecture and sound. His practice focuses on constructing temporary spatial environments in which light operates as both a structural and temporal medium. Through minimal and carefully calibrated interventions, he creates perceptual compositions where light, architecture and sound unfold together in space.
Alongside his independent artistic practice, Tulpa Collective serves as his primary platform for research and experimentation. Operating as a collaborative framework, it functions as a hub through which he initiates and develops projects with other artists. In parallel, Beau works within Studio Phare, where his focus lies on large-scale stage design and lighting for festivals and performances, translating research-driven ideas into complex, live environments.
How does your work relate to club / nightlife spaces?
Many of my ideas originate from club culture, where light and sound temporarily transform architecture into collective environments. These spaces function as laboratories where rhythm, movement and perception can be explored through light. I’m interested in translating this energy into installations that maintain the intensity of the club while opening space for attention and reflection.