about

Life is a massive collection of particles that randomly collide into each other, which for no reason at all formed into a repetitive framework. Self-regulation, random adaptation and information optimalisation.

I like to alienate familiar worlds and showcase the fluidity and disorder of life. For me the bizarre and grotesque, as well as the meaningfulness of the banal are routes that I would like to wander. I’m most interested in performing costume, audience participation and interactive technology. I find textiles, trash, jellies, and hair excellent materials. Always looking to collaborate, I believe in the qualities of listening, co-creation, amateurism, and togetherness.

email: iwan.vaandrager [at] student.ahk.nl
education: https://www.atd.ahk.nl/en/theatre-programmes/scenography/

Artists and thinkers that I resonate with:
The necessity of awareness in David Foster Wallace and Zen Buddhism,
continuing life despite all horrors in Roberto Bolano, Fleabag and the Office US,
a need for sharing of non-eventful soft experiences in Ursula LeGuin, Frieren and Toon Tellegen,
the inclusion in the poetry of Mary Oliver and the wigs of Tomihiro Kono,
the reverence in the poetry John O’Donohue and music of Shenseea,
letting our bellies show in the lyrics of Lauryn Hill and BbyMutha,
failure as a style for House of Tupamaras and Quentin Crisp,
life as an ensemble stochastically accessible molecular states in William Bialek, Eugene Koonin, Karl Friston and Bergson,
personal non-ness in Lacan and searching for otherwise possibilities in Deleuze.

Skills and statements:
Dutch, 28 years old who speaks Dutch, English and broken French
In my 3rd year of scenography at the ATD in Amsterdam
An eye for color, textiles and materiality
I must have sewn more than 5km by now
I have enthusiastically programmed something in Touchdesigner thrice
Statistical physics is my personal Jesus
Molecular epigenetics rocks
Pretty independent, soft
I style big wigs and press-on nails amateuristically
It’s all relative