Dani Ploeger

Dr Daniël "Dani" Ploeger is a new media and performance artist.

Stelarc and Ploeger (right) in 2011

Life

Ploeger was born in the Netherlands and is currently living and working in the United Kingdom. . He holds a PhD from the University of Sussex, UK, and teaches at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London.[1]

Work

Dani Ploeger's artwork focuses on the human body in connection to technology, sexuality and consumer culture.[2]

His work frequently addresses issues connected to sexuality and technology. In ELECTRODE, an anal electrode connected to an EMG sensor is used to replicate the sphincter contraction pattern of a masturbating experimental subject.[3] His work Ascending Performance features a Super 8 film of the naked artist and can be downloaded from MiKandi, an adult app store for Android phones.[4] The sexually explicit and technology-critical aspects of Ploeger's work have led to some controversies and both amused and fierce media responses. He has been described as a 'post-Stelarc' artist and the 'Jimi Hendrix of the Sphincter'.[5] Music critic Andy Hamilton has stated that there are "two assholes too many" in Ploeger's performance ELECTRODE[6] and the German newspaper Der Freitag has suggested that he 'abuses gender criticism to inflate something as art'[7]

Ploeger has created pieces addressing consumer culture and electronic waste, including Recycled Coil (2014), as part of which a body piercer installed a cathode ray television coil in Ploeger's abdomen for Art Hack Day Berlin,[8] and the installation Back to Sender (2013–14), a collaboration with Nigerian performance artist Jelili Atiku. It consists of a pile of broken European electronic appliances which were collected on dump sites in Lagos, Nigeria, and subsequently sent back to Europe.[2] In writing, interviews and public talks, Ploeger has critiqued consumption and planned obsolescence of digital devices,[9][10] the technological utopianism of artists such as Stelarc and Atau Tanaka,[11] and the sexualization of naked bodies in media culture[5]

References
  1. "Dr Dani Ploeger | Royal Central School of Speech and Drama". www.cssd.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  2. "Dani Ploeger: The body electric". Imperica magazine. Imperica. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  3. Clarke, Alissa (2013). "Orgasms and Oppositions: Dani Ploeger's ELECTRODE". The Drama Review. 57 (3): 158–163. doi:10.1162/dram_a_00286.
  4. Schuler, Will (2015). "Getting a Rise out of ASCENDING PERFORMANCE: An Interview with Dani Ploeger" (PDF). Platform. 9 (1). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  5. Reisz, Matthew (7 February 2013). "Naked lecturer looks for nude truth". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  6. Hamilton, Andy (14 November 2011). "Ostrava Music Days 2011". The Wire.
  7. Vollmer, Jan (26 February 2014). "Schwer auf Draht". Der Freitag. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  8. Haught, Graham. "Exhibition // Art Hack Day 2014". Berlin Art Link. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  9. Ploeger, Daniel. "The smartphone I didn't need, electronic waste, and art". V&A Museum blog. V&A Museum. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  10. "Yourope: Vom Stromfresser zum Öko-Web? Auf dem Weg zum grünen Internet". ARTE tv. 2 May 2015. Archived from the original on 16 September 2015. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  11. Ploeger, Daniël (2011). "Sounds Like Superman? On the representation of bodies in biosignal performance". Interference: A journal of audio culture. 1 (1). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
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