Jan Adriaans
analytical - audiovisual - conceptual - nature - social and social
In my work I'm revealing the fallacy of the idea of the human as an independently operating entity or free subject, and I show it as an illusion, directing my focus to hierarchical and heterarchical power structures and forms of self-organization. By drawing a parallel with the animal, the set of constraints we are subjected to become more apparent. My work contains video, sound and performative work, as well as writing and curating. For me capturing modes of behavior within specific power relations is an attempt to cut through to the merging of social and neuro-biological patterns and abstractions. Art can make these patterns tangible and detectable through its aesthetic representations.