Artist/Designer of and for Queer Fantasies


Visual Arts
Queer Performance
Interaction Design
Derk Over (they/them) is a Netherlands based artist and designer who works in the fields of digital arts, queer performance and interaction design. 
With a Master's from Sandberg Instituut (2017) their work examines the link between
fantasies and lived reality.

Derk states that the dreams and fantasies of marginalized sub-cultures are in itself a critique on normative culture. And as founder of theatre and game collective Queer Arcana, they enhance the visibility and crowdsourced imagination of queer gamers by overlapping subcultures and media.
Their work consists of commissioned projects for digital arts festivals, teaching, cultural programming and producing of self-initiated cultural projects.





Visual Work

3D visual work, performance photography, digital work, video.



Since: 2015 +


Marble Looks Back

an XR installation that researches in what way XR technology can enhance intimacy between performer and participant.


Image by: Benjamin Pompe,
Collaboration with: Nathan Marcus & Benjamin Pompe
Supported by: Theater Utrecht (2023), Stimuleringsfonds Digitale Cultuur (2022)
︎︎︎Available for booking





a hybrid party game exploring human body evolution in response to increased technology use. Players team up —one physically, the other online—to experience the future's singular hybrid body.

In collaboration with: Roos Groothuizen
Recent shows: Werktank Leuven (2023), IMPAKT Festival (2023)
︎︎︎Available for booking





Recent performances: Hogeschool Utrecht (2023), Stadsschouwburg Rotterdam (2016)
︎︎︎Available for booking


Supported by: Gemeente Utrecht (2021) Stimuleringsfonds Digitale Cultuur (2021), Theater Kikker (2021), Cultuur 19 (2021), What You See Festival (2020)








Public Lectures

where Derk Over invited members of the Queer Performance community to talk about the intersection of queerness and fantasy culture.


Recent lectures: AK Utrecht (2022), Hackers and Designers (2022), Het Nieuwe Instituut (2022), Culturele Zondag Bibliotheek Utrecht, (2023)
︎︎︎Available for booking

Workshops

roleplaying workshops, communal worldbuilding workshops and drag make up transformation workshops.



Recent workshops: Roodkapje Rotterdam, VOX-POP Amsterdam, What You See Festival, Queer Film Festival Utrecht, Stedelijk Museum Twente, Le Guess Who
︎︎︎Available for booking




Publicaties & Awards

publications, awards, and subsidies received by Derk Over.

Supported by: Stimuleringsfonds Digitale Cultuur and Gemente Utrecht






︎︎︎See my full CV



All content: Derk Over    Ⓒ 2017-2024, all rights reserved




Marble Looks Back

an XR installation that researches in what way XR technology can enhance intimacy between performer and participant.

Image by: Benjamin Pompe,
Collaboration with: Nathan Marcus & Benjamin Pompe
Supported by: Theater Utrecht (2023), Stimuleringsfonds Digitale Cultuur (2022)
︎︎︎Available for booking




an interactive performance where participants win fabulous prizes using their their student debts as input data.

Recent performances: Hogeschool Utrecht (2023), Stadsschouwburg Rotterdam (2016)
︎︎︎Available for booking

a roleplaying web series in which a group of drag performer explore the intersection of tabletop roleplaying games and improvisation theatre

Supported by: Gemeente Utrecht (2021) Stimuleringsfonds Digitale Cultuur (2021), Theater Kikker (2021), Cultuur 19 (2021), What You See Festival (2020)




where Derk Over invited members of the Queer Performance community to talk about the intersection of queerness and fantasy culture.

Recent lectures: AK Utrecht (2022), Hackers and Designers (2022), Het Nieuwe Instituut (2022), Culturele Zondag Bibliotheek Utrecht, (2023)
︎︎︎Available for booking

roleplaying workshops, communal worldbuilding workshops and drag make up transformation workshops.

Recent workshops: Roodkapje Rotterdam, VOX-POP Amsterdam, What You See Festival, Queer Film Festival Utrecht, Stedelijk Museum Twente, Le Guess Who
︎︎︎Available for booking



Publicaties & Awards

publications, awards, and subsidies received by Derk Over.

Supported by: Stimuleringsfonds Digitale Cultuur and Gemente Utrecht


︎︎︎See my full CV



All content: Derk Over    Ⓒ 2017-2024, all rights reserved