Garage Noord Bar40
Design: @dotweststudio
Production: @dotweststudio
Development: @nakanoblu@anihigh@semallush@stereoakuma
For: @garagenoord
Date: 25/12/26
Photography by: @predmeded
For this intervention, .WEST Studio approaches Garage Noord as a space to be dissolved rather than redesigned. Working exclusively with existing light fixtures, the project unfolds through displacement and reconfiguration, where light no longer reveals the room, but begins to overwrite it.
Detached from their original function, the fixtures become agents of transformation. The architecture recedes into the background as a shifting field of luminous forms takes over, constructing a new spatial logic defined by intensity, rhythm, and perception rather than structure. Light operates here as the primary material, it erases boundaries, reshapes volumes, and reduces the familiar identity of Garage Noord to its most symbolic forms, but no longer dominant.
Within this constraint, reuse becomes a generative act. The installation reflects .WEST Studio approach to transformation: not through addition, but through reimagining what is already there, allowing light to become the true architecture of the space.
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Garage Noord Club
Design: @dotweststudio
Fixture Design: @meeusvandis
Production: @dotweststudio
Development: @nakanoblu@anihigh@semallush@stereoakuma
For: @garagenoord
Date: 25/12/26
Photography by: @predmeded
For this intervention, .WEST Studio approaches Garage Noord as a space to be dissolved rather than redesigned. Working exclusively with existing light fixtures, the project unfolds through displacement and reconfiguration, where light no longer reveals the room, but begins to overwrite it.
Detached from their original function, the fixtures become agents of transformation. The architecture recedes into the background as a shifting field of luminous forms takes over, constructing a new spatial logic defined by intensity, rhythm, and perception rather than structure. Light operates here as the primary material, it erases boundaries, reshapes volumes, and reduces the familiar identity of Garage Noord to its most symbolic forms, but no longer dominant.
Within this constraint, reuse becomes a generative act. The installation reflects .WEST Studio approach to transformation: not through addition, but through reimagining what is already there, allowing light to become the true architecture of the space.
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Untitled
Design: @semallush@stereoakuma
Production: @dotweststudio
Development: @semallush@stereoakuma
For: @uiui_fest
Date: 25/12/26
Photography by: @predmeded
Untitled is a continuation of .WEST Studio design language that challenges the traditional use of light in nightlife spaces. Fixtures are placed hidden behind sheets of plastic covering the entire room, highlighting the main piece suspended above the stage. Both the performer and the crowds become just shadows as the plastic reflects the light across the space.
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Untitled
Noise by: @xena_xang
Design: @semallush@stereoakuma
Production: @dotweststudio
Development: @semallush@stereoakuma
For: @uiui_fest
Date: 25/12/26
Untitled is a continuation of .WEST Studio design language that challenges the traditional use of light in nightlife spaces. Fixtures are placed hidden behind sheets of plastic covering the entire room, highlighting the main piece suspended above the stage. Both the performer and the crowds become just shadows as the plastic reflects the light across the space.
Untitled
Design: @semallush@stereoakuma
Production: @dotweststudio
Development: @semallush@stereoakuma
For: @uiui_fest
Date: 25/12/26
Photography by: @predmeded
Untitled is a continuation of .WEST Studio design language that challenges the traditional use of light in nightlife spaces. Fixtures are placed hidden behind sheets of plastic covering the entire room, highlighting the main piece suspended above the stage. Both the performer and the crowds become just shadows as the plastic reflects the light across the space.
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officespace
Design: @semallush
Production: @dotweststudio
Development: @semallush
For: @hetsyndicaat
Date: 25/12/26
Photography by: @predmeded
In this work, everyday office equipment is recontextualised in the nightclub setting, transformed into an immersive and interactive light installation that invites audience participation. Experimentally, the work studies how heightened audience engagement within the nightclub atmosphere can reshape both the space and the collective experience. Through the system of scanners and screens, the installation challenges participants to reflect on the complexity of the systemic structures that govern daily life. By engaging with this interactive space, participants confront the underlying systems of control, surveillance, and commodification that permeate both the digital and physical worlds. It prompts participants to see how their individual actions and perceptions are interconnected with larger forces, urging them to consider how power, class, and labour dynamics manifest in both physical and digital spaces.
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BRUMOUS + DENDRITES
Design: @semallush
Production: @dotweststudio
Development: @dotweststudio@semallush
For: @dotdotwest
Location: @groundlessfactory
Date: 16/01/2026
Music by: @cccvaldaaa
BRUMOUS is an interactive audiovisual installation that explores how ambiguous forms emerge from noise. The
work presents a continuously shifting field of visual static across an array of LED panels. Within this field, shapes appear only through motion and dissolve the moment stillness returns. BRUMOUS considers entropy, perception and the fleeting nature of form. It reflects on the idea that all possible figures already exist within the
system and that visibility arises through temporary organisation rather than creation.
DENDRITES, as part of an ongoing research project by Sem Allush, investigates the multi-sensory interplay of light and music, merging distinct auditory and visual stimuli into singular audiovisual objects. It examines the nightclub as a space where sensory boundaries blur, exploring how light, music and a dancing crowd together create immersive moments of embodied experience. Here, perception becomes an active exchange, a dynamic interaction between stimulus and perceiving subject. The form of the work takes inspiration from dendrites, intricate structures within the brain forming its neural pathways. The fractal patterns form an externalised nervous system, translating sound into light and spatial motion. The dendritic structure mirrors how senses collaborate: not as isolated inputs, but as a networked whole.
officespace
Design: @semallush
Production: @dotweststudio
Development: @semallush
For: @hetsyndicaat
Date: 25/12/26
Photography by: @predmeded
In this work, everyday office equipment is recontextualised in the nightclub setting, transformed into an immersive and interactive light installation that invites audience participation. Experimentally, the work studies how heightened audience engagement within the nightclub atmosphere can reshape both the space and the collective experience. Through the system of scanners and screens, the installation challenges participants to reflect on the complexity of the systemic structures that govern daily life. By engaging with this interactive space, participants confront the underlying systems of control, surveillance, and commodification that permeate both the digital and physical worlds. It prompts participants to see how their individual actions and perceptions are interconnected with larger forces, urging them to consider how power, class, and labour dynamics manifest in both physical and digital spaces.
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COLLAPSE III
Design: @nakanoblu
Production: @dotweststudio
Development: @nakanoblu@stereoakuma@semallush
Light Operator: @lea.ptsv
For: @peel.collective
Location: @garagenoord
Date: 01/02/26
Photography by: @predmeded
COLLAPSE III is a continuation of .WEST Studio design language that challenges the traditional use of light in nightlife spaces. A single fixture is suspended from the ceiling, blocking the natural path of light and forcing a change of focus from the performer to the fixture itself. This results in a new way of interpreting how the bodies and structures present in club spaces are perceived and felt. The crowds become just shadows and the architecture of both the space and the fixture itself are transformed into an abstract amalgam of materials.
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Posthuman atmospheres for @mirrorzone.records
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COLLAPSE II
Design: @nakanoblu
Development: @stereoakuma@semallush@nakanoblu
Production: @dotweststudio
Light Operator: @dotweststudio
For: @mirrorzone.records
Location: @garagenoord
Date: 20/12/2025
COLLAPSE II is a continuation of .WEST Studio design language that challenges the traditional use of light in nightlife spaces. Fixtures are placed facing each other, blocking the natural path of light and forcing a change of focus from the performer to the fixtures themselves. This results in a new way of interpreting how the bodies and structures present in club spaces are perceived and felt. The crowds become just shadows and the architecture of the space is transformed into an abstract amalgam of materials.
