about — siddankers.com

(about the artist)

Through video, installation, performance and scenography, Sid Dankers (BE 1998) explores the performative state: the de facto condition of the body under public exposure. By means of staged alienation, this performative state is illuminated and exposed, blurring the line between fiction and non-fiction.

Self-constructed sets, environments and backgrounds form the framework in which scenes can emerge. Inhabited worlds can range from hellfires built of plastic flames to childhood toy castles and deserted grey office buildings. Drawing on iconography and archetypes, and by consciously deploying and highlighting them, their reading is opened up for reinterpretation.

In an often interdisciplinary and collective process, ‘entering the stage’ is made explicit by the fact that performers are not sovereign demigods but reveal the fragile and deeply human through hesitation, awkwardness and immaturity.

Sid Dankers lives and works in Brussels and obtained his Master in fine arts at LUCA School of Arts, Brussels.

Part of the artist initiative Lucy, Peaks which explores unconventional urban and domestic (in-between) spaces as potential sites for exhibitions and performances in Brussels.

1/2 part of De Tapijttegels, a dusty, yet electrifying orchestral duo ensemble (listen here).