DreamCamEra
WATCHING YOU (S)LEAP
ABOUT
Arjan Vanmeenen (1986°) is a multimedia artist working primarily with video, sound, text, lasercutting and drawings, which are often combined in installations.
The common denominator in his work is the dissonance between fiction and reality. His poetic use of technology allows the hyper-personal to flirt with anonymity, confronting the etherical with the mechanical. By giving the upper hand to dream logic, he underlines the malleability of one’s sense of reality.
He links his works to one another, regardless of medium, under the guise of ‘DreamCamEra’. Utilizing a myriad of fragmented structures and living archives, he enables different trajectories of exploration and interpretation.
His work has been featured in various Belgian museums and has been selected for several international festivals including:European Media Arts Festival (Osnabrueck), Museum Of Fine Arts (Ghent), Happy New Ears festival (Courtrai), Sameheads Gallery (Berlin), S.M.A.K. (Ghent), Guido Gezelle Museum (Bruges), Opera Studio (Ghent), Salon Voor Schone Kunsten (Sint-Niklaas), Kikker Theater (Utrecht), OFFoff artcinema (Ghent), Recyclart (Brussels), Broelmuseum (Courtrai), Red Fish Factory (Antwerp), Actuele Kunst Labo (Ronse), Muziekcentrum De Bijloke (Ghent), Fort Monostor (Komarom), Netwerk (Aalst), Fashion Week (Paris) and Pixxelpoint New Media Arts Festival (Nova Gorica).
Installation
Arjan Vanmeenen (1986°) is a multimedia artist working primarily with video, sound, text, lasercutting and drawings, which are often combined in installations.
The common denominator in his work is the dissonance between fiction and reality. His poetic use of technology allows the hyper-personal to flirt with anonymity, confronting the etherical with the mechanical. By giving the upper hand to dream logic, he underlines the malleability of one’s sense of reality.
He links his works to one another, regardless of medium, under the guise of ‘DreamCamEra’. Utilizing a myriad of fragmented structures and living archives, he enables different trajectories of exploration and interpretation.
His work has been featured in various Belgian museums and has been selected for several international festivals including:European Media Arts Festival (Osnabrueck), Museum Of Fine Arts (Ghent), Happy New Ears festival (Courtrai), Sameheads Gallery (Berlin), S.M.A.K. (Ghent), Guido Gezelle Museum (Bruges), Opera Studio (Ghent), Salon Voor Schone Kunsten (Sint-Niklaas), Kikker Theater (Utrecht), OFFoff artcinema (Ghent), Recyclart (Brussels), Broelmuseum (Courtrai), Red Fish Factory (Antwerp), Actuele Kunst Labo (Ronse), Muziekcentrum De Bijloke (Ghent), Fort Monostor (Komarom), Netwerk (Aalst), Fashion Week (Paris) and Pixxelpoint New Media Arts Festival (Nova Gorica).
video
Arjan Vanmeenen (1986°) is a multimedia artist working primarily with video, sound, text, lasercutting and drawings, which are often combined in installations.
The common denominator in his work is the dissonance between fiction and reality. His poetic use of technology allows the hyper-personal to flirt with anonymity, confronting the etherical with the mechanical. By giving the upper hand to dream logic, he underlines the malleability of one’s sense of reality.
He links his works to one another, regardless of medium, under the guise of ‘DreamCamEra’. Utilizing a myriad of fragmented structures and living archives, he enables different trajectories of exploration and interpretation.
His work has been featured in various Belgian museums and has been selected for several international festivals including:European Media Arts Festival (Osnabrueck), Museum Of Fine Arts (Ghent), Happy New Ears festival (Courtrai), Sameheads Gallery (Berlin), S.M.A.K. (Ghent), Guido Gezelle Museum (Bruges), Opera Studio (Ghent), Salon Voor Schone Kunsten (Sint-Niklaas), Kikker Theater (Utrecht), OFFoff artcinema (Ghent), Recyclart (Brussels), Broelmuseum (Courtrai), Red Fish Factory (Antwerp), Actuele Kunst Labo (Ronse), Muziekcentrum De Bijloke (Ghent), Fort Monostor (Komarom), Netwerk (Aalst), Fashion Week (Paris) and Pixxelpoint New Media Arts Festival (Nova Gorica).
UP is DOWN is UP
video installation 2018
single screen / color/ loop / mono sound
Up Is Down Is Up,is an experiment with text and narrative projection. The voice-overs are performed by children that don’t speak the English language. Therefore not only the content mutates, but intonations and emphasis are skewed and displaced. Deliberately making the viewer question what exactly is being said, suggested or imagined.
The installation is embedded in its surrounding space, lodged in the earth in an awkward tilt. Causing the viewers to switch positions in an attempt to view the content. The volume is also quite low, drawing to viewer closer to the object in an attempt do decyper its content.