VICTORINE VAN ALPHEN
Victorine Van Alphen
CHOREOGRAPHING MODES OF BEING Audiovisual artist, philosopher & curator Victorine van Alphen (1988) creates trans-media works that (mis)use and extrapolate current techno-cultural trends into futuristic experiences. She combines media to imagine beyond ‘western’ dichotomies such as nature-culture, rational-sensual, control-surrender, material-immaterial, and real-virtual. To create (digital) life - beyond these dichotomies - Van Alphen set out a radical research journey and found procedural technologies she now uses to grow ‘cyborgs’ in which complexity and chaos are crucial for the ‘aliveness’ of these creatures. She embedded these cyborgs in an immersive ‘institutional-ritual’: IVF-X posthuman parenting in hybrid reality, selected for the Golden Calf competition ‘Digital Culture’ by the Netherlands Film Festival. One moment her work seduces you visually, the next it challenges you intellectually, and yet at another time it requires your bodily or social response. This way, the works require you to shift through various modes of perceiving the work, or modes of being as Van Alphen terms them. Van Alphen graduated in philosophy and interdisciplinary science, while performing as a dancer and experimenting with audiences as curator. She then studied Audiovisual Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy through which she received a Scholarship at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art (NYC). Her trans-disciplinary approach sharpened into her method ‘choreographing modes of being’. victorinevanalphen@icloud.com www.victorinevanalphen.nl
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