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.
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.
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)
The Lost Simic Performances
a High-Saturation Genderful Plasma-Punk Muppet, The drag persona of Derk Overa 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)
In collaboration with: Roos Groothuizen
Recent shows: Werktank Leuven (2023), IMPAKT Festival (2023)
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)
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 theatreSupported by: Gemeente Utrecht (2021) Stimuleringsfonds Digitale Cultuur (2021), Theater Kikker (2021), Cultuur 19 (2021), What You See Festival (2020)
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)
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
Publicaties & Awards
publications, awards, and subsidies received by Derk Over.Supported by: Stimuleringsfonds Digitale Cultuur and Gemente Utrecht
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)
Recent shows: Le Guess Who Festival, MU Hybrid Art House (2023), The Overkill Festival (2022)
︎︎︎Available for booking
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)
︎︎︎Available for booking
Commissioned by: The Overkill Festival (2023)
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
In collaboration with: Roos Groothuizen
Recent shows: Werktank Leuven (2023), IMPAKT Festival (2023)
︎︎︎Available for booking
a High-Saturation Genderful Plasma-Punk Muppet, The drag persona of Derk Over
︎︎︎Available for booking
︎︎︎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
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)
Supported by: Gemeente Utrecht (2021) Stimuleringsfonds Digitale Cultuur (2021), Theater Kikker (2021), Cultuur 19 (2021), What You See Festival (2020)
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)
Supported by: Stichting de Trut (2018), Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst (2018)
a community initiated weekly queer space which hosts queer roleplay and drag transfromation workshops.
Supported by: Gemeente Utrecht (2021+), ACU (2021+)
Supported by: Gemeente Utrecht (2021+), ACU (2021+)
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
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
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