Event overview
As part of the MCCS Image Making Lecture Series Luke van Gelderen will be screening his work HARDCORE FENCING (2023) along with other works and talking about his practice.
Luke van Gelderen works across video, sculpture, and digital media, creating immersive installations that examine the performance and mediation of contemporary identities through technology. Converging celebrity culture, alienation, masculinity and violence, his work is grounded in his own experience of recurring intrusive thoughts and images amplified by the internet.
‘HARDCORE FENCING' is a video installation confronting the challenges of self-perception in an era dominated by incessant streams of digital content. Appropriated and artificially generated images are employed to create an environment that resonates at the blurred intersection between celebrity culture, alienation, and violence.
Examining the unrelenting pressure to perform all aspects of the self within the hyper-competitive landscape of platforms, the work explores how emotional pain and vulnerability are commodified as a marker of authenticity. At its core is a 15-minute video piece, 'HARDCORE FENCING', examining a personal struggle with compulsive content consumption.
Spinning cars, flesh masks, and looming environmental disasters run parallel with the rise and fall of influencers, evoking endless self-consuming loops. Content appears as nodes of emotion. 'Reality' is performed and re-reformed. Memories deformed. The landscape is one of isolation, loneliness and insecurity where viewers are invited to reflect on the emerging fragmented sense of contemporary male identity.
“HARDCORE FENCING” (2023) has been exhibited as part of "this is perfect, perfect, perfect" Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Transmediale, Berlin (2024); “Romeo Save Me’ solo exhibition, Pallas Projects/Studios, ‘Uncanny Valley’ Palazzo Bronzo, Genoa, Italy (2024) and Platform Arts, Belfast (2023). The work has been screened in Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Germany (2024), DA Z - Digital Art Zürich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland (2024), UNTHINKABLE, Hull, UK (2024) and Toxi Space, Zürich; curated by Émonie Fay Chetwin (2024).
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 5 Feb 2025 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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