AwhiWorld have been collaborating with Belgian artist Daniël Vandersmissen / Dan Yapungku on a series of interrelated projects based on the notion of portals. This page documents this ongoing collaboration.
Daniël Vandersmissen / Dan Yapungku lives in Belgium-Europe. He creates installations and performances related to social themes and events. As an artist, he frequently alternates between making analogue and digital images: paintings, drawings, assemblages, photo (editations), installations, objects/assemblages, animations, videos and brochures.
Daniël is a key collaborator for AwhiWorld, and we previously worked with him during BIOS as he generated astounding VR landscapes in SANSAR, responding to the changes in our lab with his alternative reality formations.
IGECC – Illegal Global Earth Cleaning Company is a fictitious company under whose umbrella Dan places his art activities, with the meaning of the acronym changing according to the art project. It has at various times been called: International Global Earth Cleaning Company [2011, Ghent], InteractIve ongoing experiment in chaotic communications [2011, Ghent and Girona], InterGalactic rEcognized Cleaning Company” [2022, Zichem] For the MetaWorld-IGECC project in Herentals, the interpretation was “interactIv proGressive expEriment in Contextual communiCation” [2023, Herentals].
(Images in this post: Daniël Vandersmissen)