Beep (Piep) Beep (Piep) Buzz (Zoem) Beep (Piep) Buzz (Zoem)

Marnix van Uum
2020 — 2022

Beep (Piep) Beep (Piep) Buzz (Zoem) Beep (Piep) Buzz (Zoem) is a long-term project in which I—through the use of physical actions and interventions - let the narrative qualities of both the desire for knowledge and the urge to maintain ignorance influence the course of the video. During the production I focus on what forms the basis of my artistic practice, namely the interplay between my personal development and its narrative character and that what an artistic practice could be, based on (art) historical notions such as traditions and thus sharing a similar narrative nature.

About the artist:
I work and live in The Hague and I graduated from the Rietveld in 2015. My artistic practice is based on the interaction between my personal development and that what an artistic practice could be—a narrative. I put these two parallels up against historical connotations and objects with a historical meaning in order to permanently question my role as an artist. This often results in comic, narrative (performance) videos and drawings due to the discomfort that can occur when one convulsively clings to the meanings of such loaded concepts.