AT WAR WITH ONESELF

As the protagonist of his own films, Dutch video and performance artist Guido van der Werve makes great physical demands upon himsel f. His works chart approaches to the experience of self and the world by staging an existentialist competition with himself. However , he not only documents the realisation of the conceived events/ this documentation is also taken as a starting point from which to condense them into complex narratives about physical endurance, struggling with (ones own) nature, the passage of time, and the unc ontrollabl...[Read more]