OT301 27th anniversary
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On Saturday, November 14, 2026, OT301 celebrates 27 years of art, autonomy, and community resiliencewith a daytime program ahead of its home-powered night party. Since 1999, this self-managed, non-profit collective has served as a cultural and social anchor in Amsterdam. For this anniversary, the house opens its doors to welcome neighbors, artists, and supporters to experience the building's inner life.
The celebration begins at 12:00 with a Lunch at Café Gilde, offering fresh dishes alongside drinks and background tunes.
And from 15:00h, Throughout the afternoon, visitors can wander through the building's upper floors to explore some of the open studios, meet the members, and witness experiments, performance jams, and exhibitions in the 4Bid Gallery:
CAPITALIST FOLKLORE an AV installation and performance
An artistic exchange between Amsterdam and London What are the myths and underworlds of contemporary urban life? In exchange with VIRTA, a performance drawing on Finnish and Karelian mythology, the commons presents Capitalist Folklore — an exploration of the strange mythology of the world we inhabit today. Emerging from collective conversations around power, technology, consumerism and digital culture, Capitalist Folkloreimagines a contemporary underworld populated by gods of money, data and desire, where memes become mythology, screens shape reality and the absurdities of everyday life take on a life of their own. On 12 November at 4bid Gallery in Amsterdam, the commons will bring its Collective Enquiry into a live, creative form for the first time, combining video, audio and interactive performance. Developed through shared conversations and experimentation, the work invites audiences into an evolving world shaped by the rituals, contradictions and power structures of contemporary life. Rather than beginning with a fixed outcome, the process brings together different voices, disciplines and perspectives to create a shared world — one that questions what we take for granted and considers what lies beneath the surface of our everyday lives.
at 16:00 AND 20:00h:
Low /// McEwan
James A.-McEwan and Weiyan Low bring electric guitar, live electronics, and percussion into an open-ended dialogue drifting between melody, noise and expansive textures. McEwan’s sustained guitar tones, floating harmonies, and fragmented melodic gestures draw in part on abstracted Greek and Middle Eastern influences, which dissolve into ambient and drone-based electronic processing. Low works with no-input mixing, feedback, electronics, and electric percussion, blending percussive textures with the chaos of feedback and shifting between the primal and ethereal, the organic and synthetic. Together, they build an evolving sonic environment in which musical fragments emerge, overlap, and disappear, balancing moments of spaciousness and contemplation with noisier and more abrasive elements.
This daytime gathering sets the stage for the night program, which kicks off at 21:00 with a live band and a lineup of resident DJs (see night program on ot301.nl/agenda for details and tkts).
support the scene!!!
The celebration begins at 12:00 with a Lunch at Café Gilde, offering fresh dishes alongside drinks and background tunes.
And from 15:00h, Throughout the afternoon, visitors can wander through the building's upper floors to explore some of the open studios, meet the members, and witness experiments, performance jams, and exhibitions in the 4Bid Gallery:
CAPITALIST FOLKLORE an AV installation and performance
An artistic exchange between Amsterdam and London What are the myths and underworlds of contemporary urban life? In exchange with VIRTA, a performance drawing on Finnish and Karelian mythology, the commons presents Capitalist Folklore — an exploration of the strange mythology of the world we inhabit today. Emerging from collective conversations around power, technology, consumerism and digital culture, Capitalist Folkloreimagines a contemporary underworld populated by gods of money, data and desire, where memes become mythology, screens shape reality and the absurdities of everyday life take on a life of their own. On 12 November at 4bid Gallery in Amsterdam, the commons will bring its Collective Enquiry into a live, creative form for the first time, combining video, audio and interactive performance. Developed through shared conversations and experimentation, the work invites audiences into an evolving world shaped by the rituals, contradictions and power structures of contemporary life. Rather than beginning with a fixed outcome, the process brings together different voices, disciplines and perspectives to create a shared world — one that questions what we take for granted and considers what lies beneath the surface of our everyday lives.
at 16:00 AND 20:00h:
Low /// McEwan
James A.-McEwan and Weiyan Low bring electric guitar, live electronics, and percussion into an open-ended dialogue drifting between melody, noise and expansive textures. McEwan’s sustained guitar tones, floating harmonies, and fragmented melodic gestures draw in part on abstracted Greek and Middle Eastern influences, which dissolve into ambient and drone-based electronic processing. Low works with no-input mixing, feedback, electronics, and electric percussion, blending percussive textures with the chaos of feedback and shifting between the primal and ethereal, the organic and synthetic. Together, they build an evolving sonic environment in which musical fragments emerge, overlap, and disappear, balancing moments of spaciousness and contemplation with noisier and more abrasive elements.
This daytime gathering sets the stage for the night program, which kicks off at 21:00 with a live band and a lineup of resident DJs (see night program on ot301.nl/agenda for details and tkts).
support the scene!!!
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Where is it happening?
Overtoom 301, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Host or Publisher4bid gallery
