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Pleun Gremmen (they/them, NL, 1992)
I am a who creates . My multidisciplinary practice uses a toolbox consisting of 3D rendering, virtual world building, graphic design (web and print), performance and installation. Based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Porto, Portugal where I am collectively creating the artists community space & cultural organisation, El Aleph. If you would like me to create, design, research, talk, workshop or collaborate with you on a project don't hesitate to contact me. |
studio El Aleph R. dos Burgães 390 4050-350 Porto Portugal previous Time Window, Rotterdam contact info[at]pleungremmen.nl or pleungremmen[at]gmail.com instagram: @pleunpleunpleun media digital media (VR, 3D, web), moving image (animation, video), performance, installation, printed matter and datavisualisation. |
bio Pleun Gremmen (they/them, NL, 1992) graduated in 2018 from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (Master Media Design, Experimental Publishing), and in 2014 from ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem (Bachelor Graphic Design). Since graduating they have been working as a research-based artist, a freelancing designer, and has been connecting and collaborating with artists and institutions in a.o. the Netherlands, Germany and Portugal. Their current research project The Wandering Womb [working title] – in collaboration with Menahem Wrona – will be series of works following the short films "Hysteria Narratives" (2021) and "This work might contain nudity, do you want to proceed?" (2020) The book & mediawiki “Alt Reality Lexicon” (2018) and the film "A Revisited Story of Decline" (2019) explore the language neologisms of the Alt-right and Manosphere (internet) subcultures, acting as a translator between realms of reality. The projects mean to close gaps of knowledge between netizens and citizens, and to express concerns about how digital life is shaping alt-realities by amplifying growing polarization. The spatial installation and performance “R.E.S.T” (2017) explores contemporary physical and digital expressions of escapism in a politically turbulent time. 
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SELECTED
AUTONOMOUS
PROJECTS
The Wandering Womb
(2020–current)
A Revisited Story of Decline (2019) and Alt Reality Lexicon (2018)
El Aleph
(2021–current)
AUTONOMOUS
PROJECTS
The Wandering Womb
(2020–current)
A Revisited Story of Decline (2019) and Alt Reality Lexicon (2018)
El Aleph
(2021–current)
The Wandering Womb (current)
The Wandering Womb [working title] is an artistic research project following the short-films Hysteria Narratives (2021) & This work might contain nudity, do you want to proceed? (2020) exploring the womb as an act of continuous creation.
– The Wandering Womb [working title] (current), in collaboration with Menahem Wrona
– Hysteria Narratives, (2021)
“Almost prentending to be a film for scientific use, Hysteria Narratives by Pleun Gremmen is an immersion inside a dreamlike female human body, punctuated by the words of a hypothetical patients who complains of the symptoms of the desease described as hysteria. Four video reconstructions of explorations of female intestines with a tube retrace the history of hysteria and its exploitation to define the sexist intellectual, physical and moral inferiority of women.” – Metronom Gallery, Modena Italy, 2021
– This work might contain nudity, do you want to proceed?, (2020)
is a 15-minute narrative exploring the lack of medical research in womxn bodies through early medical texts and the myth of the wandering womb, an animal within an animal, while wandering through a virtual body.
– The Wandering Womb [working title] (current), in collaboration with Menahem Wrona
– Hysteria Narratives, (2021)
“Almost prentending to be a film for scientific use, Hysteria Narratives by Pleun Gremmen is an immersion inside a dreamlike female human body, punctuated by the words of a hypothetical patients who complains of the symptoms of the desease described as hysteria. Four video reconstructions of explorations of female intestines with a tube retrace the history of hysteria and its exploitation to define the sexist intellectual, physical and moral inferiority of women.” – Metronom Gallery, Modena Italy, 2021
– This work might contain nudity, do you want to proceed?, (2020)
is a 15-minute narrative exploring the lack of medical research in womxn bodies through early medical texts and the myth of the wandering womb, an animal within an animal, while wandering through a virtual body.
media: video, mp4, ~15 minutes, 1080x1920
credits (2020):
concept, 3D animation, virtual world building, text: Pleun Gremmen
camera, editing and sound: Edith van den Elzen
narration: Lot van Teylingen
made in residence at the Internationales Frauen*Theater Festival, Frankfurt am Main at antagon theaterAKTion
concept, 3D animation, virtual world building, text: Pleun Gremmen
camera, editing and sound: Edith van den Elzen
narration: Lot van Teylingen
made in residence at the Internationales Frauen*Theater Festival, Frankfurt am Main at antagon theaterAKTion
tools: 3D animation, virtual world building, graphic design
A Revisited Story of Decline (2019)
An animated story about far right ideology that tries to strike a balance between gaining some much needed knowledge about and creating unwanted propaganda for this fringe internet culture.
project: three synchronized screens showing three perspectives, mp4, ~13 minutes, 1920x1080.
1: an animated look into the ideology of the online far-right, from radicalization to action.
2: selected content written by Brenton Tarrent, the terrorist who killed 51 people in Christchurch, New Zealand in March 2019.
3: my own perspective, my comments and collected definitions of terms mentioned in the other two screens, taken from my publication Alt Reality Lexicon.
1: an animated look into the ideology of the online far-right, from radicalization to action.
2: selected content written by Brenton Tarrent, the terrorist who killed 51 people in Christchurch, New Zealand in March 2019.
3: my own perspective, my comments and collected definitions of terms mentioned in the other two screens, taken from my publication Alt Reality Lexicon.
credits:
film: Pleun Gremmen
narration: Alexander Brouwer
score: Matthijs van der Wilt, Thomas James Scholte
sound assistance: Sjoerd van Kampen
curated: Iris Sikking
special thanks to: Delphine Bedel, Leslie Robbins, Eline Benjaminsen & Djuna Couvee
film: Pleun Gremmen
narration: Alexander Brouwer
score: Matthijs van der Wilt, Thomas James Scholte
sound assistance: Sjoerd van Kampen
curated: Iris Sikking
special thanks to: Delphine Bedel, Leslie Robbins, Eline Benjaminsen & Djuna Couvee
tools: 3D animation, virtual world building, graphic design
Alt Reality Lexicon (2018)
Every key point in the ideology of the online far right is mirrored in their expressions, their aesthetic, behavior and in their vocabulary. To gain a deeper understanding of the views of the online far-right it is key to be able to understand their language.
project: a mediawiki and a printed publication both acting as a lexicon, http://altrealitylexicon.xyz/, book size ~A5, 221 pages
credits:
website, mediawiki help: Michael Murtaugh
Piet Zwart Institute guidance: Steve Rushton, Marloes de Valk & Aymeric Mansoux. design tutor Piet Zwart Institute & collection editor: Delphine Bedel
book text editor: Djuna Couvee
website, mediawiki help: Michael Murtaugh
Piet Zwart Institute guidance: Steve Rushton, Marloes de Valk & Aymeric Mansoux. design tutor Piet Zwart Institute & collection editor: Delphine Bedel
book text editor: Djuna Couvee
tools: coding, writing, graphic design
El Aleph (2021-current)
El Aleph is a transdisciplinary space for culture and the arts established in the city of Porto, bringing together musicians, visual artists, writers, theatermakers and philosophers to live and create together. Working with the local community, the goal of El Aleph is to establish dialogue between diverse cultural spheres and the city of Porto, exploring literal and figurative languages through the hosting and co-creation of cultural events in music, performance, philosophical inquiry, visual art exhibitions, and readings. elaleph.pt
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Timeline
current–2014
COMMISSIONS
Timeline
current–2014
Pleun Gremmen (they/them, NL, 1992)
I am an artist and graphic designer who creates [ visual / queer / hyperactive / (im)possible / fictional / (more-than-)human / collaborative ] [ narratives / worlds / dreamscapes / histories / realities ].
My multidisciplinary practice uses a toolbox consisting of 3D rendering, virtual world building, graphic design (web and print), performance and installation.
If you would like me to design, research, talk, workshop, collaborate with you on a project don't hesitate to contact me at info[at]pleungremmen.nl. Open this site on a desktop for more, or check out my instagram: @pleunpleunpleun.
Rainbows End
(commissioned project, 2021)
PR social media and the virtual exhibition for Creative Coding Utrecht
A REVISITED STORY OF DECLINE
(autonomous project, 2019)
Alt Reality Lexicon
(autonomous project, 2018)
publication on Alt-Right and Manosphere online subculture
KONTRA #2
(commissioned project, 2019)
poster and social media, event at Roodkapje Rotterdam
I am an artist and graphic designer who creates [ visual / queer / hyperactive / (im)possible / fictional / (more-than-)human / collaborative ] [ narratives / worlds / dreamscapes / histories / realities ].
My multidisciplinary practice uses a toolbox consisting of 3D rendering, virtual world building, graphic design (web and print), performance and installation.
If you would like me to design, research, talk, workshop, collaborate with you on a project don't hesitate to contact me at info[at]pleungremmen.nl. Open this site on a desktop for more, or check out my instagram: @pleunpleunpleun.
Rainbows End
(commissioned project, 2021)
PR social media and the virtual exhibition for Creative Coding Utrecht
A REVISITED STORY OF DECLINE
(autonomous project, 2019)
Alt Reality Lexicon
(autonomous project, 2018)
publication on Alt-Right and Manosphere online subculture
KONTRA #2
(commissioned project, 2019)
poster and social media, event at Roodkapje Rotterdam