Newsroom 3: Laundromat x Search

During the Warmoes Biennale, artist collective mul-thee-fuhngk-shuh-nl will engage in conversation with waiting customers and passersby about well-being. What is the current state of affairs in Amsterdam's city center? What factors influence this? Stories, perspectives, and ideas on this topic will be gathered during three pop-up newsrooms at the Effeness parcel shop, Happy Inn Laundromat, and Order Tattoo Shop. The findings will be published in three publications, which can be found in the participating pavilions of the Warmoes Biennale.

Finally, mul-thee-fuhngk-shuh-nl is settling in at the Happy Inn Laundromat. Here, we'll be discussing community. How do people relate to one another? What does it mean to belong to a community? And how do you find one? What is a community anyway? Do you ever go grocery shopping for your neighbor, or do you secretly have no idea who they are? Can we read the future of community on Warmoesstraat from the clean laundry? What has your dirty laundry been through? We're collecting utopias, reflections on neighbors, advertisements from businesses promoting their contribution to the community, and personal search notes for social contact.

In the newsroom and in the publications, we will explore how we can view our surroundings differently while waiting. The Warmoes and its surroundings serve as a playground for imagining new ways of being and other uses for space beyond the functional. The newsrooms and the publications are places where we look at things differently, question the environment, search for something that isn't there, and create our own representations.