Peter Bogers (Dordrecht, 1956) is a performance artist who in the early eighties was part of the first generation of artists in the Netherlands who made active use of video. Initially to record his performances, later much more as an independent medium that enabled him to influence movements, experience of time, space and sound. The videos and sound installations he made since then show and / or aim - as well as his performances - a physical experience, whether that is his own, or that of the spectator of his work.
Videos that follow the minute movements of hands or fingertips, which show isolated, floating body parts, images that create a tangible vacuum in time and space through constant repetition, acceleration and deceleration, or sound installations that are so penetrating that sound seems to be tangible. His videos often consist of images of his own body or sound produced by himself, but they can just as well be made up of images and sounds from the outside world: material he films himself, or media images that he (re) organizes and structures. However different these two directions are, they are produced irrevocably by the same maker. They always show the same concentrated, almost meditative power and come from the same fascination to express an inner human experience.
Boger’s work is included in the collection of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Videos that follow the minute movements of hands or fingertips, which show isolated, floating body parts, images that create a tangible vacuum in time and space through constant repetition, acceleration and deceleration, or sound installations that are so penetrating that sound seems to be tangible. His videos often consist of images of his own body or sound produced by himself, but they can just as well be made up of images and sounds from the outside world: material he films himself, or media images that he (re) organizes and structures. However different these two directions are, they are produced irrevocably by the same maker. They always show the same concentrated, almost meditative power and come from the same fascination to express an inner human experience.
Boger’s work is included in the collection of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
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