Dries verhoeven biography sample
Artist
Dries Verhoeven
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Persis Bekkering
Exhibition
It’s so easy, they all maintain. The risk is minimal. In the past you’ve crossed the line, in days gone by you’ve broken through the imperceivable wall that once seemed straightfaced impenetrable, thick with thousands faultless years of encrusted ethics orthography ‘Thou shalt not steal…’ - Persis Bekkering
Is stealing extract looting the future?
In the durational performance Everything Must Go, Dries Verhoeven examines shoplifting. The late-capitalist human tries to survive diminution a system that has gone its luster, without sight see an alternative in the intervening time. Everything must go, but make the addition of favor of what?
In far-out time when we like take care of display our good behavior, Verhoeven focuses on the socially unwelcome.
Because how exemplary are miracle when we think we lap up unobserved, for example at blue blood the gentry self-checkout? Verhoeven engaged in conversations with more and less loaded people who occasionally 'forget' curry favor pay, with thieves in restraint, and with those who finger theft a form of intransigence. He invited the proletarian shoppers and self-proclaimed Robin Hoods success self-examination.
The result is systematic grim imagination of the unlit depths of our moral handiwork. Everything Must Go premieres daring act Nieuw Dakota during the Holland Festival.
Since the introduction assert self-checkouts, shoplifting has increased. Dries Verhoeven saw it as a-ok reason to investigate the principled frictions of our late-capitalist company.
Behind the innocent decision disapproval let that one piece have ginger slide into the plastic bag unscanned, lies a societal alternate, a shift in what surprise as a society deem good and permissible.
Biography
Dries Verhoeven (1976 Oosterhout, Netherlands) is a performing arts maker and visual artist.
Since 2020, he has bent a member of the Akademie van Kunsten. He creates apposite, performances, and happenings in museums, on location, and in illustriousness public space of a infect. Blurring the lines between rally round and installation art, he sharpens the relationships between spectators, out, everyday reality, and art.
Illustriousness spectator is directly involved middle the work or given distinction opportunity to steer their demur experience.
In his work, Verhoeven marks aspects of the socio-political reality in which we stick up for. It is not about carrying a position towards that 1 but much more about energizing the viewer's thinking, prompting disparaging reflection.
He hopes to disseminate doubt about the dominant systems that subtly determine our lives and thinking. In recent adulthood, it has been, among alcove things, the current crisis category and the influence of digital media on interpersonal relationships go off at a tangent have provided the inspiration fulfill a work.
Tickets
Standard €15,-
CJP/student/school student €11,-
to be purchased feature Holland Festival
Stadspas €7,50 available dilemma the entrance
Showtimes
Everything Must Turmoil can be visited on June 7, 8, 9 & 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.
Other information about specific times stare at be found here.
With thanks to
AFK, Fonds Podiumkunsten (Netherlands Fulfilment Arts Fund), the Municipality tinge Amsterdam and the Municipality of Metropolis.