Dancing Fragments

Now showing · installation loop

Role

Artist, concept and generative system

Archive

Jeroen Roording, Extravaganza

Shown at

Verborgen Verhalen, Huis van de Nijmeegse Geschiedenis

About the project

Dancing Fragments is a sculptural audiovisual installation inspired by Nijmegen’s queer house and techno scene, using the legendary Extravaganza party as a starting point.

Archival material from co-founder Jeroen Roording informed a self-built generative system where infrared images fade, distort, and fragment across LED matrices, speaker modules, and semi-transparent panels, creating a layered, abstract memory that evokes the fleeting freedom, collectivity, and atmosphere of queer nightlife.

Dancing Fragments was made for Verborgen Verhalen, an exhibition on the hidden cultural histories of Nijmegen at the Huis van de Nijmeegse Geschiedenis.

Fig. 1The installation in a shop window: eight translucent panels glowing in red and blue infrared colours

Fig. 2Close up of the panels behind a grid of black joints

Fig. 3The installation, loop

Fig. 4Process film: building the generative system

Fig. 5A single panel in saturated red with a bolted corner joint

Fig. 6A bolted joint against soft magenta and orange light

Fig. 7Abstract infrared image in red, orange and deep blue

Fig. 8Process, loop

Fig. 9Process, loop

Fig. 10Panels glowing orange and yellow, divided by a dark metal grid

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