Visual Work

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

Since: 2015 +

New Drag, Who Dis?

a visual design research project that explores how 3D-printing and generative AI can expand the possibilities for post-human non-binary drag.

Supported by: Stimuleringsfonds Experiment (2022)

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)

Welcome to the Gaybourhood XR

An interactive Extended Reality theater production that explores themes such as ‘queerness,’ ‘housing,’ ‘societal expectations,’ and ‘adulthood,’ set within a physical dollhouse.

The Lost Simic Performances

a High-Saturation Genderful Plasma-Punk Muppet, The drag persona of Derk Over

Project Stargaze

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)

Het NK Chillen

an interactive performance/installation in which six national finalists compete for the title of Dutch National Champion Competative Leasuring. As the finalists are attached to heart rate monitors, their chill is tested and judged.

Commissioned by: The Overkill Festival (2023)

Studieschuld Bingo

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

Recent performances: Hogeschool Utrecht (2023), Stadsschouwburg Rotterdam (2016)

Queer Arcana Webseries

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)

How a Bag of Krentenbollen Drifted Gently Past My Window

a self-published booklet in which ChatGPT tries to answer moral dillemas about what you are allowed do when the Netherlands will be hit by a national flood crisis.

Performance at .zip (2022)

Stoere Jongens

a short documentary film in which queer migrants talk about their experience within gay male culture in Amsterdam.

Supported by: Stichting de Trut (2018), Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst (2018)

Queer Arcana Homebase

a community initiated weekly queer space which hosts queer roleplay and drag transfromation workshops.

Supported by: Gemeente Utrecht (2021+), ACU (2021+)

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)

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

The Seesaw Sessions

a interactive performance in which drag perfomer Simic challenges the participants to dive in to a conversation with them, using a scale to measure how intimate both parties are willing to go.

Performance at Daydaygay Eindhoven (2023)

Publicaties & Awards

publications, awards, and subsidies received by Derk Over.

Supported by: Stimuleringsfonds Digitale Cultuur and Gemente Utrecht

Queer Arcana Chaos Form

an interactive game-theatre performance, where the participants create a Dungeons and Dragons story for a group of Queer Arcana drag performers through the use of Mentimeter.

Recent shows: Le Guess Who Festival, MU Hybrid Art House (2023), The Overkill Festival (2022)

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