The Dutch call it “het privaat”, the English “privy”. The toilet in particular (the bathroom has a slightly broader meaning) is a space where you are mostly on your own, in full privacy. But not with a smartphone. The internet invades that sacred space at any given moment. Even if you think you’re alone, you are not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Klaas Koetje transforms the toilet group of W139 into the ultimate private sphere. FLUSH #5<\/em> encourages the visitor\u2014whether they are there for a sanitary stop, to withdraw from the crowd for a moment or for any other reason\u2014to reconnect with the private self and reflect on the intrusion of technology in aspects of life as banal as taking a piss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Klaas Koetje is a self-taught multimedia artist based in Groningen and a certified legend. We are honored that he agreed to be a part of FLUSH<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n FLUSH: a sudden rush of intense emotion <\/em>is a flourishing collaboration between Espacio Estamos Bien <\/em>and W139, located in the toilets of W139. FLUSH<\/em> operates as a flexible form of organizing and creating, enabling various types of collaboration. FLUSH <\/em>aims to foster inter-local relationships, viewing Amsterdam as a hub for facilitating diverse interactions and building connections that bridge distances. Joyful, friendly and decentralized connections extend beyond the Amsterdam art scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Text by Mauro Benavidez The Dutch call it “het privaat”, the English “privy”. The toilet in particular (the bathroom has a slightly broader meaning) is a space where you are mostly on your own, in full privacy. But not with a smartphone. The internet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":28621,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"Europe\/Amsterdam","_EventStartDate":"2025-01-31 18:00:00","_EventEndDate":"2025-01-31 22:00:00","_EventStartDateUTC":"2025-01-31 17:00:00","_EventEndDateUTC":"2025-01-31 21:00:00","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"\u20ac","_EventCurrencyCode":"EUR","_EventCurrencyPosition":"suffix","_EventDateTimeSeparator":" @ ","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":" - ","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[1343],"artist":[1794],"group":[1732],"class_list":["post-28623","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-para-siting-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w139.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/28623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w139.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w139.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w139.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/w139.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/28623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28665,"href":"https:\/\/w139.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/28623\/revisions\/28665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w139.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w139.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w139.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28623"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w139.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=28623"},{"taxonomy":"group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w139.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/group?post=28623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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