Daphne Simons

audiovisueel - film - samenwerking - sculptuur

Daphne Simons works with sculpture, moving-image, and collaboration. These forms allow her to expand the potential of what she calls “surRidiculism”. Recent projects include exhibiting at Growing Space (NL); WET Film (NL) with Josie Perry; co-producing "PLASMA FREEZE: Making Friends" with Josie Perry; performing at TWENTY ONE, Southend-on-Sea (UK); Locatie Z, The Hague (NL), and performing at LaVallée, Brussels (BE) with Yanik Soland. She has undertaken artist residencies at Kunsthuis SYB, Friesland (NL), WASSAIC, New York (USA) with Li-Ming Hu, and Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, Wellington (NZ) with Li-Ming Hu. Previously she has exhibited at The Physics Room, Christchurch (NZ), The Blue Oyster, Dunedin (NZ), Artspace, Auckland (NZ), and co-organised “Canapé Canopy” with Mark O’Donnell, Auckland (NZ).


YIKES - 2020, Growing Space, Rotterdam, NL. Solo exhibition, mixed media animatronic sculptures, dimensions variable.
Bobby Bear Back Goes Fisching (Butt) - 2020, Digital photograph, 8.5x 11 inch. Shown for TSA_PDF online exhibition, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York, USA.
MEET ME AT MEAT - 2020, Video documentation from flammable text sculpture [cotton and potassium nitrate crystals, dimensions variable]. Shown in “BAT ISLAND”, (with Jamie Kane and Petter Dählstrom Persson). Breinenoordeiland, Rotterdam NL.
PLASMA FREEZE: Making Friends (The Wheel) - 2020, Prop made for ‘Plasma Freeze: Making Friends - Musical Playlist’ digital video. Featured on WET - Artist Moving Image Platform, Rotterdam, NL. Co-produced with Josie Perry.
PLASMA FREEZE: Making Friends (left) Plasma Spring (right) - P.F. (2020), P.S. (2019). Limited edition riso-printed comic books, co-produced with Josie Perry.
Bobby Bear Back Goes Fisching (depressed Alpaca) - 2020. Multi-channel video installation, dimensions variable, looped. Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL.
Plasma Spring (Pauline and Rutger Shock Montage) - 2019, double page spread from limited edition riso-printed comic book, A4. Co-produced with Josie Perry.
Oyster Headset - 2018. Oysters, LED lights, bluetooth headset, portable speaker, plastic, clay, steel. Wearable prop for “House Hunt“ Live performance to camera, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL.
A Piece of Pie - 2018, Still from digital video documentation of Dan Sternberg and the “Inaugural Wassaic Eating Contest”. Residency project with Li Ming Hu as artist-duo RIFF RAFF. Wassaic Artist Residency Project, New York, USA.
TUCAT Telethon - 2017, documentation from 12 hour durational performance event organised for residency project with Li-Ming Hu as artist duo RIFF RAFF. Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, NZ.