Dani Ploeger is a Dutch artist and theorist, currently living and working in Berlin and London. Heralded in the press as the ‘Jimi Hendrix of the sphincter’, Dani’s performance installations often involve cheap readily available medical technologies and explore themes around the technologized body, sexuality and vanity.
His artwork has been featured in venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Basel, Experimental Intermedia in New York, para/site art space in Hong Kong and Revolution 1.000.000.000etc. Gallery in his hometown Middelburg in the Netherlands. His writing in the field of digital art and cultural studies has been published in the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media and the Body, Space and Technology Journal, among others.
Dani is an associate artist at ]performance s p a c e[ in London. After holding a position as Lecturer in Performing Arts at De Montfort University in Leicester, he was recently appointed as Lecturer in Theatre and Digital Arts at Brunel University London.
interview with vagner whitehead for e-terview, june 2011
reportage on dutch national radio (vpro), 24/8/2010 (in dutch)
article in het parool 23/8/2010 (in dutch)
review of 'play & productivity' by seda ilter in body, space and technology journal, vol. 9, no. 1 (2010)