The reactive video installation explores themes of viewer proximity, gender identity, and transformation. Through an unsettling interaction between a projected, hair-draped Figure and the viewer, the work stages a powerful visual and emotional negotiation of identity.

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The installation is structured as a dark corridor, painted black, where a projected Figure stands at the far end—its identity visually defined by long black hair that doubles as both garment and mask.


The piece confronts themes of proximity, identity, and gender, playing with the distance between viewer and image. As the viewer moves closer, the Figure reacts with discomfort: vocalizing distress, moving erratically, and slowly shedding its hair. This removal of hair—a visual signifier of femininity and disguise—reveals an ambiguous and unstable identity beneath, challenging the viewer’s initial assumptions and exposing the fragility of surface-level readings of gender.

The interaction is unsettling: the viewer gains agency over the Figure’s exposure, yet the installation cleverly subverts full control, as the Figure resists and reacts. The choreography, constrained within the corridor, further emphasizes a struggle for self-definition under surveillance. The hair, once a symbol of allure and identity, becomes a source of discomfort and transformation—eventually repositioned as a crown before being completely stripped away.

Filmed in high-contrast black and white with touches of oversaturated blue, DERANGED uses minimal but emotionally charged aesthetics to intensify its impact. Hair operates as a key metaphor: mutable, performative, and ultimately unstable. As the hair disappears, so too does the Figure’s original gendered silhouette, leaving behind a newly exposed Subject that defies binary categorization.








Caption of the picture. Vienna, 2008


Caption of the picture. Vienna, 2008




Caption of the picture. Vienna, 2008


Caption of the picture. Vienna, 2008

Fun Facts 



While preparing his graduation at the Rietveld Academy, Bogomir Doringer began researching health issues among military personnel returning from missions in the Balkans, Iraq, Cambodia, and beyond. 
The complexity and emotional weight of that research made it difficult to start—and 
in a way, DERANGED emerged as a creative detour, or perhaps more accurately, a coping mechanism. One could say DERANGED served 
as a metaphorical unpacking of difficult 
truths that would later take form in his 
long-term project Hospitality.



Interestingly, DERANGED didn’t just remain 
a standalone piece—it evolved into an ongoing exploration of ferrofluid, a mysterious material Doringer has been researching since 2009, and which has threaded its way through much of his later work. The project also marked the beginning of his interest in fiction as a temporary state, a concept he would explore further during his master’s studies.


Credits
Dancer
Anouk Froidevaux

Choreographer
Andreas Kuck

Makeup Artist
David Stella

Hair
Yannis Kyriazos,
Tomislav Feller


Music
Natasa Bogojevic

Camera
Ben Geraerts

Camera Assistant
Maarten Apeldoorn

Post Prodcuction
Janneke Kupfer
Programming
Konstantin Leonenko

Assistants
Ivan Kadelburg, 
Marija Kadelburg, 
Maielin Timmerberg, 
Barbara Amalie Skovma, 
Debbie Wester



Special Thanks to
Jans Possel and Philip Woo


Thanks To
Martin Grotenburg and 
Material fonds in Amsterdam
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