User:Dennis van Vreden/4thassesstext

So to start with the first sketches I made.
These are the first I made to create something out of my fascination for the performance state of mind. Where or when it occurs. And how do I communicate either that performance or transition of going into the performance.
Since then I have made a couple more sketches in a hairsalon as well as in a 'home' setting. I like when it also starts to tackle with the idea of assuming roles in social situations. Like in a group conversation.

It's these moments where reality or the truth makes place for something artificial. Not in the bad sense and calling it fake. But a fantasy state.

Right now I am trying to translate these ideas into installations and I have basically sketched a few that came to mind in the last couple of weeks since I started taking the photos and also bringing back the Purikura and japanese references that occurred in the work I did last year with the Factory Reset project "Musicaloke". In that everything needs to look cute and then sort of swallow you up.

While creating ideas for white cube spaces I was thinking about last year when Steve said that the anthology of an image is that it speaks to other images. And how amazing it would be if I could have an installation that would change through a week and have every state of the cube speak to the other states it has been in or will be in. But these are of course still ambitions. For now the sketches are starting to look like stage designs. Which is interesting I guess, it made me talk to Deniz who did the ORALS TV shows at the last grad show and it would be interesting to let her perform in one of the spaces. Framed by a cutout of Sailor Moon.

Another sketch that has to be explained since it is quite vaguely drawn is the one that has cardboard cutouts of people in the streets doing random movement and I would arrange them in a choreography/ musical-like composition.

And I am interested in the artificial blue and yellow light combination that is used in almost every single concert performance.

on how the object of performance/fantasy (for example those can be a movie, television show, music artist performance) is telling you how to experience life.