About the Book
Dirk Jan Jager, was part of
Between Heaven and Earth
an evening of live art in the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam during the Museumnacht 2010
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Arts & Photography Books
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Project Option: Large Square, 12×12 in, 30×30 cm
# of Pages: 70 - Publish Date: May 08, 2011
- Language English
- Keywords Btissame Amadour, Piet Musters, Wieke van Werkhoven, Babeth VanLoo, Thomas Lenden, Between Heaven and Earth, live art, Paul Glazier, Simon Ferdinando, Sugar Sickness, Museumnacht 2010, Oude Kerk, Dirk Jan Jager, photography, honey, Amsterdam, Art, Performance
About the Creator
Dirk Jan Jager is a performance artist working in a variety of media. He began his career as a painter, and in his performance work he still approaches painting from unusual perspectives. In many of his performances the living surface of the body is defined as a site of intervention. It becomes a blank canvas, yet its surface does not exactly receive, or host, images. Jager alludes to motifs from painting or mythical figures to stage the body, allowing the familiar image to act as a second skin, which in the course of the performance is gradually peeled off, to reveal an anonymous, generic body. A central element in his work is the gesture of erasing identities, and images that support them. Another aspect of his work is the interest in rituals and rites of passage, and transitional states that give birth to a new person, within a performative situation which involves the covering and peeling off the full surface of the body with different materials.