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Let Death Dance Again

Mai 21, 2019 / 0 comments

Illustration from: Rosenfeld, Hellmut. Der mittelalterliche Totentanz. 3rd edition, 1974. Böhlau Verlag Köln Wien. Upcoming research project, soon to be released: letdeathdanceagain.net Let Death Dance Again (LDDA) is an initiative investigating how a contemporary, non-human-centered version of the medieval Dance of Death (DoD), and its incorporation into current daily life and cultural aesthetics could operate as…

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Gentrifire

Mai 7, 2019 / 0 comments

Poster design for an interdisciplinary performance (dance, music, theater, visual arts) dealing with gentrification. A0, digital print.

GlobeRotter

Februar 20, 2019 / 0 comments

GlobeRotter is stimulated by, and combining, the continuous image upload on Instagram and the music genres grindcore and Japanoise. It reflects and reacts in a spontaneous manner on news, locations, books I am reading, and more. Important is a fast pace of production using a mobile phone. The very short clips are immediately uploaded and implemented in…

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Flotsam Fluke

Februar 2, 2019 / 0 comments

Atmospheric Trailer Flotsam Fluke is an all-ages VR world solely made of found objects from the Web, a dump full of free 3D models that collect dust online in databases. A playground with digital folklore aesthetics as a metaphor for the internet DIY (Do-It-Yourself) and DIWO (Do-It-With-Others) culture with its available digital tools. The project…

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Death & Digital

Februar 14, 2018 / 0 comments

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METALheADS

Januar 30, 2018 / 0 comments

Black Metal Logos meet Google Ads on Youtube 2018 Acrylic paint on black linen, each 150 x 200 cm METALheADS is a manifestation of screenshots taken of Black Metal videos on Youtube. The uploaded videos show band logos that got interrupted by Google Ads. This combination leads to contradictions in visuality: the high-contrast black and…

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Your Touch, So Foreign

Januar 7, 2018 / 0 comments

In collaboration with Jasmijn Visser. This film (beta version, 55 min) is the result of our research expedition to Kalmykia in July 2017, commissioned by Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, exhibited during Krasnoyarsk Biennale in October 2017. Supported by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Russia, Stimuleringsfonds Creative Industry and Mondriaan Fonds. ***

AWAAN? Are We All Addicts Now? Digital Dependence

Dezember 6, 2017 / 0 comments

Book design for artist Katriona Beales, edited by Vanessa Bartlett and Henrietta Bowden-Jones. „Are We All Addicts Now? Digital Dependence is an artist-led enquiry by Katriona Beales into digital hyper-connectivity and the normalization of addictive behaviours through our everyday interactions with digital devices.“ Full description here Liverpool University Press ***

Burial Scaffolds—On Body and Ritual in the Digital Age

August 13, 2017 / 0 comments

Photos by Jeroen Jongeneelen Commissioned by Stedelijk Museum Breda for the exhibition „Wonderlijk Weefsel“ June – December 2017. ***

Research Expedition to Kalmykia for Your Touch, So Foreign

August 13, 2017 / 0 comments

Research expedition to Kalmykia in the context of our project ‚Your Touch, So Foreign‘ commissioned by Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, July 2017. The result will be exhibited during Krasnoyarsk Biennale in October 2017. In collaboration with Jasmijn Visser. Supported by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Russia. We are on our way to…

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