Significance and Back

eddie d uses unrelated video segments based on incidental everyday perceptions: the rattling lid of a pan, or a foot stamping, a talking head on the television. 

With these fragments he creates compositions. He turns them into a rhythmical sequence, making use of the compositional principles of music, poetry or choreography. And just as with these disciplines, the meaning is generated by the experience of the whole. Repetitions, duplications, framing, shifts and crescendos generally suggest means by which the influx of trivia can be reforged into a significant experience. 

(Jaap Vinken/Martine van Kampen)

Mi Cocina 

The best material for a work of art is often simply to be found in everyday reality. After all, this is where the things that are directly connected with our human nature can be found, because day in day out they comply with our habits and patterns. They lead a life that we have stopped noticing. The household requisites that eddie d already brought to life in previous video works, also play a role in 'Mi Cocina'. With their bright colours and clean-cut designs, they speak the language of pictographs or educational illustrations - even more so because here they are toy kitchen utensils. The plastic pans, plates and ladles are shaking and rattling about, making the sounds of their adult equivalents while being controlled by an invisible force that lets them play together in unique rhythms and structures.

Nice and Fresh and Greasy is a video-opera about  beauty, commercialism en the freshness of grease (or the greasiness of fresh).

Its a musical video-collage in which found-footage elements and music are tightly integrated to form a dynamic,  uplifting composition. 

With this work, eddie d again shows he is the master of rhythmical video. He worked together with Dutch composer Jaap Dercksen and the music is composed in conjunction with eddie d's video-editing process; after selecting and pre-editing some video and sound, eddie d sent this to Jaap the composer, who then wrote a ground layer of music, then he sent the score to eddie d who then edited more video and sent this to Jaap again and so on and so forth until the piece was ready.

The footage is from an annoying phone-in tv gameshow and a 1960's television commercial. All is rhythmically accompanied by a man playing the spoons and using his mouth as a percussion instrument.

The work shows that, when you have guests, a good looking tablecloth is appropriate.

Accumulate

Video Poem

In an age when even smartphones produce HD video, eddie d collects old SD dvds and instruction videos to search for material to use for his works. This Lo-Fi approach has resulted in a video poem which stars one man and his numbers. The poem might be about the financial crises, or bankers, or just about everyday problems we all have to endure. The question that remains is: How much more? 5?

One thing is certain: as always with eddie d videos, the work is short enough to fit in anyone’s pocket.

'Majesteit'

eddie d tackles a special (and extreme) example of political ostentation and ritual in the Netherlands: ‘Prinsjesdag’, the day on which the monarch presents the governmental policies for the forthcoming year tothe collective Dutch parliament. The pompous rituals around this special day are exposed and reduced to their very essence by means of canny editing. 'Majesteit' compares two so-called ‘Throne speeches’ with each other: those of 1997 and 2008. Are there actually any essential differences – apart from Queen Beatrix’s new hat and perhaps the newly designed upholstery on her throne? The government will work hard and cherish hope. The people are expected to behave like good citizens. And all the ministers present diligently join in the ceremonial cheers, but are actually more interested in their own appearance and cuff links.