What struck us at first when discovering the work of Janne Schimmel was his way of highlighting the beauty and sculptural aspect of hardware. When opening the box that is our computer, Janne re-curate its display without necessarily changing its function. By manipulating its aesthetic, Janne allows the hardware to become an interface between the physical world and the digital realm.

This interest for modding is at the heart of Janne’s Schimmel practice and a crucial movement within digital culture. His work is about hardware, obsolescence, memories, alternative storytelling. “

His work aligns with the right-to-repair movement, the modding community, and the broader discourse against digital enclosures. It reclaims creative and technological agency from an industry that is made on built-in expiry

 is an exhibition, curated with the artist, that showcases the modded consoles as sculptural vessels for games and videos created by guest artists. The invited artists come from a range of backgrounds, including media art and the homebrew community. Homebrew creators develop games outside of the game industry, outside of the norm, reinventing rules and mechanics for consoles considered obsolete. Together they are retroactively diversifying the library of these consoles and activating existing hardware instead of creating needs for new ones. Janne and Sickhouse collaborated with the invited artists to present their videos and games on the obsolete hardware embedded within his sculptures.

The exhibition welcomes the work of Janne together with projects from 

Paula Garcia Sans, B-Complex, Permacab, Vinzenz Sombray, Philip Ullman, astoryinpieces, Grenhunterr.



The exhibition will open on Friday 20-03 at 19:00 and run until Sunday 10-05. You can visit the exhibition on Friday’s and Saturday’s or on appointment with groups.




19:00 Walk-in 
19:30 small interview of Janne Schimmel by Marie Janin to look into his practice and the development of the new piece “Friendly Secrecy System” created with Vinzenz Sombray (In the cinema)
20:00 free tour in the exhibition space

Janne will also host two workshops in April to share his practice and support makers in their quest for alternative processes.

Participants are invited on a hike with the artist and create pixel-art interpretations of the view, compressing real-world vastness into the Game Boy’s 160×144-pixel screen. All the artworks will be bundled onto a Game Boy cartridge at the end of the workshop. Each participant will receive their own cartridge containing the collection.

Nintendo Wii-mote Permacomputing workshop, hosted with Rein van der Woerd



Participants are invited to imagine ways of re-activating Nintendo Wii-motes with contemporary software.

The exhibition will close together with a residency of Chloé Desmoiseaux, french artist and initiator of Fluid Space in Marseille. (more info coming soon)

Friendly Secrecy System - Janne Schimmel

COLLIDERS is back from winter break, now taking place the second Wednesday of the month at the new Sickhouse location, featuring the best selection of games and talks.

The second meet-up of the year will be dedicated to games made by or with an inclusive feminist approach, curated by invited playful makers. 

COLLIDERS is our monthly meet-up for playful makers, programmers, enthusiasts, producers, artists, designers, curators, and all people interested in game making. At Colliders, we brainstorm, present our progress, give feedback, enjoy creations and, of course, we play!

around indie/art house game makers and playful artists. With Colliders, we want to support each other and create more opportunities for collaborations and exchange. 

Colliders has a different theme and game selection each month. 

Register here if you want to present your work, test your game, or give a short presentation

Leila is a heartfelt, hand-animated narrative game about the small yet significant struggles we all face. Solve story-driven puzzles, relive fragile memories, and discover a deeply personal journey that may feel more familiar than you expect. More info 

by Toni Catino (astoryinpieces)
A small colony of exiled queens, living out life imitating what they knew, suddenly disrupted by an unnatural infestation... 


A narrative walking experience through the real lives of women living under Islamic law in Iran. Their stories were never meant to be heard. Now you can walk through them. More info 


A relaxing puzzle game about a woman navigating a midlife crisis. Hannah’s got it all: a well-paying job, a fancy coffee machine, and a comfortable life – so why isn’t she happy? Lead her on a journey of self-discovery as you explore beautiful scenes and find hidden objects. More info 

Building Feminist Game Spaces: From Women Only Game Jams to Tiny Tools 

This talk explores how women only game jams and experimental mini tools can create safer, more inclusive entry points into game development. It reflects on feminist approaches to tool making and community building as ways to reshape the systems used to create games.

It's Not Easy Being Green (But Here's Why I Love It)

A talk by Toni C. (astoryinpieces) about her method and her madness for making all kinds of games on her most favorite rectangle, the Game Boy!

: Wednesday, April 8 (second Wednesday of the month)
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: Sickhouse! Oldenzaalsestraat 128, Enschede.
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COLLIDERS Playful Makers Meet-up

Our TableTop Game Nights are transforming! It is now time to introduce 

, a monthly role play event organised together with 

, for board games, cards, miniature painting or kit bashing…anything tabletop is welcome! We are also very happy to discover your own creation and be your play testers!

We will have a few RPG tables, hosted by someone from our community or a special guest and open tables for board games.

Come alone or with a group. Playing games is an excellent way to make new friends!

Bring your favorite games and share them with us, or try out some of our collection.


Whether you are a brand-new RPG game master, a game designer looking for playtesters, or have another type of activity in mind, we are looking for you! As a host, you can expect the following from us:

Support from experienced event organizers

Materials such as dice for the table are available or can be arranged

(registration for players will come soon)


: 18:00 to 23:00 
> 18:00 walk-in, bring your food to eat together 🍲🥗🍛🥡
> 19:00 the games start
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PLAY! TableTop Nights



Glitzineknubum is a seasonal zine making session to help us reflect and share what we did the last 3 months, away from social media! 
Sickhouse will support with printers, glue, glitter, colour paper, magazines… You can bring your photos (printed or on your phones and camera), bring your favorite material to create your own Glitter Zine Knutsel Album!

Come with your friends, your family or by yourself, it will be great doing this together and share memories, proud moments and little stories…

At the end of the day, for the ones who dare we will get rid of the surplus of images from the last 3 months and free our phones. (Bring your hard-drive if you need to save some!)

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 (you can walk in and out any time)
💎 

RESERVE YOUR SPOT

 Glitzineknubum - seasonal zine making

On April 18, Sickhouse becomes one of the stages of 

 that turns the city into a playground for new music.

Booster Festival is the showcase festival of East Netherlands. Musical talent from Overijssel and Gelderland will have the opportunity to present themselves to the music industry in the Netherlands. 

Every year, Booster brings together dozens of emerging artists performing across multiple venues, presenting the most exciting new sounds from the east of the Netherlands to audiences and music professionals alike. Expect a night full raw energy, and fresh talent pushing music forward.

Einder - No barbie - Warda - Nelles - Peanut Butter Goldfish - Nomads Radio

Einder

 is the name of the musical adventure that Janko Bartelink and Danny Jeroense (alias Doolcirkel) have embarked on together. Through live improvisation, new, temporary soundscapes are created time and again, taking the audience on a journey through contrasting atmospheres.



 creates ambient and experimental soundscapes. With the field recordings frequently found in her work, you soon can imagine yourself somewhere far away, yet still close by. She keeps it small but you might will feel totally immerse. 



makes electronic lo-fi pop that whispers rather than speaks. Self-produced in a bedroom studio with little more than a laptop and synth, their sound floats between analog noise and digital textures – inspired by artists like PinkPantheress, Oklou, and Men I Trust.



 is melancholic, honest, and harder than ever before. The young adult band from Enschede tells bittersweet stories of lost loves, shattered self-images, and an escape into oblivion. With influences from alternative rock, shoegaze, and indie pop, raw guitars blend with dreamy synth layers and sultry vocals into a sound that is both comforting and confronting.


Peanut Butter Goldfish combines experimental garage punk with theater. Their stories are raw and unfiltered, with a dark, intense, yet hopeful and danceable energy. One moment you feel like a destructive madman and a possessed
dancer, only to crash down again as a fragile human being.



Nomads Radio is a three-headed whirlwind of surf and garage punk, anchored in poppy hooks and lyrics that balance personal anxieties and everyday absurdities. Think of the raw, melodic songs of Ty Segall and the untamable energy of Osees.


BOOSTER Festival at Sickhouse

From the depths of dusty film cans, late-night television broadcast, forgotten drive-ins and questionable basements… the monsters are returning, one by one.

 is a new cinematic ritual devoted to the glorious age of monsters, mostly from before 1970, and occasionally after, if the creature insists.

Every Monday night we summon all vampires, mutants, swamp creatures, radioactive nightmares, gothic specters, and all the beautiful horrors that crawled out of the golden age of monster movies.

The films will remain a surprise. We will discover it together in the dark…

Before the screening begins, we enter a one-minute meditation guided by the sacred mantra of 

 to properly align mind, body and monster spirit. Then the lights go down.

Grab a drink. Take a seat. Eyes wide open.

Movie Monster Mash 03.20

Movie Monster Mash

Hosted with Roos Groothuizen from .zip(online)


To hell with boring-ass brainrot scrolling on Instagram, let’s handcode our own sites again, filled with cool pictures, funny texts and cute games. Did you know that’s really easy??

Every month artists and creatives get together at .zip (Rotterdam) to work on their personal sites with HTML, CSS and Javascript. Sickhouse is joining in as a location. We will be connected via a screen :) When we get stuck on difficult coding challenges, we have each other to help out. At the end of the night, we’ll show off our pages, and join each other’s ‘webrings’.

💻 Technical Skills : Both HTML newbies and pros welcome. Bring your laptop!
🍻 Free admission, bring your own food if you like, support Sickhouse with getting your drinks at the bar:)

Check out .

Neocities Coding Night - Build your own Digital Garden

Cinema Obscura is a curated film screening program focused on cult, experimental, and unconventional cinema, created by Aike Lutkemoller and Frank Schonewille many years ago.

In the early days, the films were never announced in advance and the spectators discover them either through the introduction by the organizers or even during the screening itself.

The program is challenging, controversial and unique. Each screening is meant to be a special experience, beginning at the moment you sit down in our vintage cinema chairs from 1936. You are invited to react, interact, discuss, scream, laugh and embrace the shared discovery of strange films.

Cinema Obscura will run throughout the year with a monthly screening. Some films will be announced, some will remain a mystery…

Cinema Obscura 24.04

Cinema Obscura: Film Night 

Led by Rein van der Woerd and Janne Schimmel.



Join us for an experimental, hands-on workshop, where we bring the iconic Nintendo WiiMote back to life.

Together, we’ll experiment with turning this (in)famous controller into a creative input device for new games or software. Inspired by the ideas of permacomputing (a movement focused on reuse, resilience, and sustainable tech) we’ll explore the possibilities and limitation of this old tech, just in time for the WiiMote’s 20th anniversary.
It will be a day of fun and open experimentation and by the end of the day we will hopefully have a (working) software prototype. 

Whether you're a complete beginner or an experienced coder, you’re warmly invited to join.

 (you can walk in and out any time)
🎟️ 

Ticket Wii Revisited - 25-04

WiiMote Revisited

In a spirit of bringing landscape, community, and interface together, Janne Schimmel is hosting  a pixel art hiking workshop. Participants are invited on a hike with the artist and create pixel-art interpretations of the view, compressing real-world vastness into the Game Boy’s 160×144-pixel screen. 

All the artworks will be bundled onto a Game Boy cartridge at the end of the workshop. Each participant will receive their own cartridge containing the collection. 

No specific knowledge needed, bring a tablet or laptop with a pixel editing app 
Janne recommends : 

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pixel-studio-for-pixel-art/id1404203859

you can also use Gimp, Paint.NET, Pixelorama (these Janne does not have experience with) or paid option such as photoshop or Aseprite

📅 

Pixel Art Hiking

Pixel art hiking workshop

The City of Lost Children (JP.Jeunet & M.Caro) - 1995 - FR

A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

”
Following our research topic “Dream No Return” we start with this classic movie with a spectacular set, a steampunk atmosphere and the score from Angelo Badalamenti (from Twin Peaks :)

Cinema Obscura is a curated film screening program focused on cult, experimental, and unconventional cinema.

Cinema Obscura: The city of lost children

We are back from winter break! COLLIDERS first edition of the year will take place in the new Sickhouse location and will be dedicated to something very close to our hearts 

In tune with the opening of our new space, this edition explores games about houses, moving, and building spaces that feel like home.

 by Adam Pype, Viktor Kraus (Korea & Germany)

 JugarJueguitos_That bike ride in Enschede was very important to me

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On March 8th, we take to the streets of Enschede.
Because women rights aren’t radical, they are fundamental.

Join us in standing up for human rights, equality, safety, justice, and solidarity. Students, activists and cultural collectives across the city unite under the name Enschede Feminists to make our voices stronger together.

📍 Start: Stationsplein, Enschede
🕓 Time: 16:00
📅 Date: March 8, 2026

After the march (18:00–23:00), join us at Sickhouse for an aftercare event with music, open mic, discussions and community gathering.

Let’s show up. Let’s be loud. Let’s stand together.

You can find the program of the week leading to the march, with protest sign making sessions, talks, film screenings, feminist & queer market and more : 

International Women Day March

On the initiative of Sam Valenzuela, The Queer Feminist Market is an

 event build around intersectional resistance,

feminist and queer creators in a space that fosters community.



The market is a space for anyone fighting gender-based oppression, whether you identify as a woman, a trans person, non binary or any other gender-nonconforming / dissidence. Feminist struggles intersect with queer struggles, and many participants embody both. We explicitly welcome trans, non‑binary, and LGBTQ+ voices that also advocate feminism.

With illustrations, jewelry, collages, workshops, music, films, food and more… The market is open from 15:00 to 21:00 and is part of the International Women Day’s program spread over Enschede. (see the rest of the programs here : 


💫 DATE: Saturday 7th March
⌚ TIME: from 15:00 to 21:00
🎞️ LOCATION : Sickhouse 
🎟️ FREE ENTRANCE

Feminist Queer Market

To celebrate and in preparation of the women march of 

, we are hosting a film night as part of Sickhouse new program around 

. 
For this special week we are showing the short 

 (1995) from Nathalie Magnan, french media theorist. The movie is a collages of many film extracts exploring the idea of a lesbian culture. 
To follow up we will screen 

(2024) from Deborah Craig, a bio docu about Sally Gearhart, important figure of the lesbian feminist movement in the 70’&80’s in the US. 
To close the program we are happy to present the new short film of Siiri Selin 

(2026); a portrait of strip club dancers waiting between acts, intertwining documentary and re-enactment.


 from Nathalie Magnan, 1995, 30min, archive-collage

Made and presented as part of the “Gay Night” for Canal+, this 30 minutes movie is an intent to answer the question “is there a lesbian culture?”. The historical and international dimension seems therefore obvious to answer this question that sounds like an uppercut against the white heteropatriarchal mainstream culture. Series of short movies and news stories extracts (1912 to 1995), punctuated by interviews of lesbian figures over the whole world. Nathalie Magnan has created a visual shock presenting the lesbian culture in all its forms throughout the 20th century: merry appropriation and fierce repackaging of images produced by the mainstream culture.


from Deborah Craig, 2024, 1h36 - Biography-Documentary


She spearheaded the 1970s and 80s lesbian feminist movement - making an indelible impact on LGBTQ equality and women's rights. A brilliant and sexy superstar who inspired thousands. So how come you've never heard of Sally Gearhart?

from Siiri Selin, 2026, 20min - docu & re-enactment

What happens in the area of strip clubs reserved for onstage talent? Of course: normal life, with the women talking, playing cards, working on their final thesis for university, discussing the men they have to deal with. A fine essay in portraiture that intertwines documentary and re-enactment.


💫 DATE: Friday 6 March 
⌚ TIME: First film starts at 20:00
🎞️ LOCATION :  Sickhouse cinema
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Agenda

Current and Upcoming

Friendly Secrecy System - Janne Schimmel

COLLIDERS Playful Makers Meet-up

PLAY! TableTop Nights

Glitzineknubum - seasonal zine making

BOOSTER Festival at Sickhouse

Movie Monster Mash

Neocities Coding Night - Build your own Digital Garden

Cinema Obscura: Film Night

WiiMote Revisited

Past

Pixel art hiking workshop

Cinema Obscura: The city of lost children

COLLIDERS Playful Makers Meet-up

International Women Day March

Feminist Queer Market

Fem Films - Lesborama - Sally! - Dancers Only