Floor is an interdisciplinary artist whose work navigates the intersections of fine art, theatre, costume/fashion design, and underground club culture. Her practice thrives in the grey area where these fields converge, blending elements of each to create unique and immersive experiences. Floor aspires to expand her practice into more social contexts, including collective projects, teaching, and creating for children in theatre and film.
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Embracing a DIY attitude, Floor’s process is marked by trial, error, and collaboration, all carried out with compassion and a non-competitive spirit. She primarily uses thrifted materials, giving new life to items that already have their own histories. Her diverse body of work includes interactive installations, performances, dolls, costumes, textiles, and video/sound pieces.
Floor’s work revolves around themes such as world-building, magic, the subconscious mind, animism, absurdism, and subculture. She delves into non-human interaction, lucid dreaming, the witch archetype, shamanism, holacracy-anarchy, club culture, fetish, pirate TV/radio, and experimental (electronic) music. These themes reflect her fascination with the mystical and the unseen, as well as her desire to explore and interact with the ‘more than human’ world.
With a background in fashion design, Floor has dressed music artists and performers, focusing on experimental performers, dancers, and choreographers in dance theatre. She creates intuitive costumes with performative effects, such as blacklight structures or a third eye camera headpiece. Her work stretches the boundaries between fashion, costume, performance, and autonomous art. As part of the Patchwork Family, she explores new ways to merge fashion design with club culture.
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Central to Floor’s practice is the mystical and important process of world- and character-building. She approaches this with a blend of love and fear, engaging with the natives of the subconscious and exploring interactions with the ‘more than human’ world. Her work often questions human constructs and hierarchies, imagining social rules in a world where every entity might be an outcast.
Currently, Floor is developing a ‘more than human’ talk show installation featuring life-size dolls and strange entities. In this installation, costume and body merge, dissolving the borders between creature and costume, and inviting viewers to engage with a world where traditional distinctions blur and new forms of interaction emerge.
