Teenage Dream
(her-herinnering)
Performance/installation at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduation Show 2019
Teenage Dream (her-herinnering / re-remembrance) tells the story of a child dealing with their own emerging sense of self – who eventually seeks it in the information that is created while living a life. The result of what happens when the I is a memory, is demonstrated.
Things shown and interacted with in the 12-minute performance:
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a 51 centimeter long iron bar weighing 3380 grams;
- the bed the performer slept in from age 5 to 20;
- a 4-minute home video of the performer, age 16, lip-syncing to Michael Jackson's One Day in Your Life;
- a poster of Gerrit Rietveld re-imagined as an 80's movie star;
- a map of the solar system;
- a cover of Katy Perry's 2010 chart-topping single Teenage Dream;
- a 3D-rendering of the moon
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