PORTFOLIO - AUDIOVISUAL
HUMAN
Video Installation2024 - Cacaofabriek, Helmond
The viewer enters the space and sees 4 monitors stacked on top of each other with a large cctv camera aimed slightly downwards. At first the monitors show a portion of the room, a continuous image, distributed across the vertically stacked screens. The viewer is naturally inclined to take position in front of the monitors within view of the camera. 8 seconds later, they see themself appear on the screen with a corresponding delay. The viewer is confronted with their immediate past in a feedback loop.
Real time behaviour is juxtaposed with an external view of your past behaviour. The conflict this causes in your nervous system, creates the illusion that you see yourself as another would, unable to interact with your own image directly. As you consciously move through the space, the passing of time, which you normally do not perceive, reveals itself.
The work builds on the legacies of Nam June Paik, Dan Graham and Peter Campus in a way that is unafraid to resemble or reenact these ideas because they have kept their relevance and deserve to be experienced 50 years after they were first created. Similar monitors, cameras and other electronics, rearranged into new combinations. The experiments are technical in nature but aim to show processes which are psychological. Like with the artists mentioned, the aim is to ‘show’ a process that is taking place in the viewers mind.
The viewer takes central position in front of the camera becoming the main actor. The time delay causes the individual to disassociate with the image projected across the 4 screens. The installation, consisting of a camera and screens in a vertical composition, impersonates the mobile phone including the standing format now so commonly used on social media to better capture our vertical bodies.
The viewer is trapped in a state of observation not unlike in the digital enclosures of social media where we sculpt online versions of ourselves. A constant feedback loop of filming, being filmed, watching, reacting and engaging with our immediate pasts in a way entirely new to the human experience. An explosion of self consciousness.
HUMANS
Video Installation2024 - Cacaofabriek, Helmond
The viewer enters the space and sees an array of randomly placed LED screens flickering softly with pixelation. Once the viewer steps into the light shining from above, an image of the viewer appears on the screen. 15 seconds later, 3 more images of the viewer appear, from different angles, with a corresponding delay. The images are filmed by cameras attached to, and protruding through, the LED screens.
The immersive, close circuit installation embodies the literal encroachment on our physical space by screens and cameras. A reference to the telescreens in George Orwell’s 1984. Omnipresent and never turned off, they are an unavoidable source of propaganda and tools of surveillance.
Our privacy erodes in the digital enclosures we inhabit. We submit to the collection of our audiovisual data, often unwillingly and unknowingly. Our online selves, labouring away without pay to create endless profits for mega corporations owned by billionaires. What Mark Andrejevic calls ‘The work of being watched’.
‘Consumers who submit to comprehensive surveillance in response to offers of convenience and participation perform valuable work for corporations and marketers..
... a critical approach to forms of surveillance facilitated by interactive media must focus on asymmetries of power and control over information technologies and resources.’
From: The work of being watched: Interactive media and the exploitation of self-disclosure
SLOW ANIMATED LIGHT SCULPTURES
When staring at the sea, the sky or a fire, the interplay of simplicity and complexity holds our attention, a slowing down of time to the non-linear inner. The moving colors you see when your eyes are closed. Abstraction allows for disassociation from what is real. In the slowness a dialogue starts between the outer and the inner, the eyes and the mind.
What you see and what you are looking at. Inside and outside.
Exhibited at Robert van Oosterom Gallery and MOYA Museum.
What you see and what you are looking at. Inside and outside.
Exhibited at Robert van Oosterom Gallery and MOYA Museum.
XYZ
2023 Rotterdam.
50cmx50cmx20cm
128x128px High luminosity LED screen, reclaimed polyester resin, Stainless steel frame.
DEEP
2022 Rotterdam.
50cmx50cmx20cm
128x128px High luminosity LED screen, reclaimed polyester resin, Stainless steel frame.
HALO
2022 Rotterdam.
50cmx50cmx20cm
128x128px High luminosity LED screen, reclaimed polyester resin, Stainless steel frame.
