Influenza/Dancing Black Square

Jeroen Jongeleen’s sticker and graffiti actions counter the standardized and commercialized inner-city spaces with subtle interventions. Under the label ‘Influenza’ – referring to its potential effect as uninvited distortion of public space, creating an alias for the maker at the same time – Jongeleen continuously develops new signs, figures and texts. He often makes direct reference to the hegemony of architectural structures and public advertising displays, shifting or supplementing their visual codes.
Jeroen Jongeleen grasps his work not only as an activist strategy, but also as an examination of the possibilities of artistic expression in public space. Influenza/Dancing Black Square is a hypnotizing moving/standstill series of images, a sticker project finding itself translated into animation. (See also his Influenza/Composition II (Chrome Square), in the compilation programme Ready for my Close Up.)
This work is shown in the Sub Urban Video Lounge, a small space for projected art concentrating on works appearing in the area of overlapping disciplines: visual arts, film/video, dance, poetry….