Make Some Noise: Desire. Stage. Change.

With sound, performance and bold expression, the exhibition Make Some Noise: Desire. Stage. Change. encourages movement and change. “Let yourself be heard” is the core invitation of Positions #9: Make Some Noise: Desire. Stage. Change.

Twelve international artists and collectives convene in a dynamic constellation of solo presentations, performances, and encounters. Their practices span choreography, sound, theatre, sculpture, cinema, and AI-powered composition, each offering a distinct approach to how bodies, materials, and technologies shift and resonate. With movement as its connective thread, Make Some Noise: Desire. Stage. Change. invites visitors to move, to listen, and to imagine what could emerge from this.

The exhibition opened on 31 January with Dutch premieres and a series of one-time-only performances, including Felisha Carénage, Göksu Kunak & Adam Russell-Jones. “Amidst widespread uncertainty and a rapidly changing planetary environment, many confront feelings of anxiety or even paralysis. With their evocative, poetic and intellectually charged works, these artists inspire to engage deeply: to long, to listen, to imagine alternative scenarios and to take the stage. We desire to bring movement, literal and metaphorical; to demonstrate how art and creativity are the beating heart of a world still deserving of our attention and our voice.” – senior curator Zippora Elders

Positions #9 is not a traditional group exhibition. Instead, it reveals how a variety of artists relate to themes such as encouragement and longing from their own perspectives. Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff bring the mysterious ambiance of their community theatre New Theater Hollywood from Los Angeles to Eindhoven with the European premiere of new work. Jack O’Brien presents a sculpture of two suspended grand pianos that refers to the tension between being stuck and breaking free. Felisha Carénage opens up the museum under the black wings of a masked stilt walker, accompanied by carnivalesque scenes full of play and danger, mourning and desirability. Göksu Kunak introduces Spillage, an installation and opening performance about experiencing a mental and physical crash. Matthew Lutz-Kinoy reflects on historical and contemporary positions of dance and desire with performative paintings. Miloš Trakilović presents an algorithmically generated ‘‘love song’’, made from pop fragments from just before the war in Yugoslavia, resonating with contemporary threats. Selma Selman transforms personal longing into a monumental satellite dish that speaks of false hope, escape and desire for a different existence. SERAFINE1369 leads visitors to a space for reflection and contemplation on tensions and friction of embodiment.