Benjamin van der Burg
installation - performance - sculpture
The self consciousness depends on internal and external processes outside body but the body does not depend on a self-consciousness. And so they move asymmetrical and due to its assymetry bodies automaticly create errors that influance our abilty to be fully concious.This causes us to feel things when we're not concious or to be touched by something without sensing it.Can a dance performance still be harmonious when its out of sync?Within my practice I'm engaged with body and space. These subjects I explore by working with forms of pedagogy, power relations, repetition, decay and with the focus on cleansing.My work consists of installations, participatory performances, site specific sculptures, and texts.I've been recently researching structures of the art system, and the role of the human body in artmaking and society.My main question comes from the research project a Body without it's flesh, in this project i was interested in the idea of a rehearsal of a dance performance.
