Renee Shaw, AKA Vj Poppins, is a video installation and live video performance artist. As a video performer, Vj Poppins responds to an audible beat embracing the phenomenon of synaesthesia. Drawing from a large archive of footage, Vj Poppins manipulates video output through live, spontaneous editing. Like a DJ, she scratches through multiple layers of moving images searching for that perfect mix. The visuals have no hierarchy-there is no beginning, middle or end. Vj Poppins constantly rummages for visual juxtapositions that create non-linear narratives.
Vj Poppins believes identity is a mix. Identity is a mix of visuals, narratives, genders, complex codes, data, races, commercial and institutional information. She presents identity as a series of audio/visual loops and samples that gets mixed and remixed constantly and spontaneously. The audio /visual content is a constant negotiation of past, present, and future remixes.
Vj Poppins is interested in the intersections of cultural synchronism between personal and communal narratives, identity, and experiences. Their performance is an attempt to synthesize a community of diverse interests and enthusiasms in this canonical and hierarchical world in which cultures are meshed. She borrows from everywhere trying to form new adjacencies, claiming new mixes and forging new identities that are not fixed.
The output is an audio/visual cornucopia of personal narratives, musical loops and multiple layers of digital video.
Vj Poppins believes identity is a mix. Identity is a mix of visuals, narratives, genders, complex codes, data, races, commercial and institutional information. She presents identity as a series of audio/visual loops and samples that gets mixed and remixed constantly and spontaneously. The audio /visual content is a constant negotiation of past, present, and future remixes.
Vj Poppins is interested in the intersections of cultural synchronism between personal and communal narratives, identity, and experiences. Their performance is an attempt to synthesize a community of diverse interests and enthusiasms in this canonical and hierarchical world in which cultures are meshed. She borrows from everywhere trying to form new adjacencies, claiming new mixes and forging new identities that are not fixed.
The output is an audio/visual cornucopia of personal narratives, musical loops and multiple layers of digital video.