A paper with a forever draft for a biography hangs on a wall:

Vicky De Visser (1991) is a Belgian born, Amsterdam based multidisciplinary artist. Her art practice is research based and anchored in socio-political contexts, is inspired by object oriented ontology and has an anthropological interest in the formation and decline of communitas through movement and improvisation. She uses para-fiction to weave her world; and other(s) worlds together.

Concerned with human and nonhuman conflict and connection, she actively engages in codependent research and making methodologies. Her performances often rely on audience participation both on stage and in public places.

The media she uses for her research are moving image, dance, sound, photography, ceramics, oil painting and graphic design.

Paroah is the moniker Vicky uses for everything sound.

When selecting tunes, she is known for heating up the dance floor with curveball after curveball, like a top level game of defensive, high rpm table tennis. That is, if the ball was your brain, and the expertly controlled, spin-imparting bats were unrelentingly fresh waves of acid, gabber, and other friendly yoga terrorism genres. 

Aside from dance floor energising she explored more ambient realms with her experimental mixtape series ‘a letter to… a post-order’ radio show on Root Radio Istanbul. 

She is co-founder of Non Bull Beats and the sub-label Free Shit of Spooky Shit,  and is currently active as an experimental electronic music and post-club promotor for Ruisburo at De Ruimte, Amsterdam.

Education
Vicky De Visser achieved her BA in Art History (2012) at the Catholic University of Leuven, BA in Graphic design (2016) and a Master in Audiovisual Performance Art (2018) at Sint Lucas University College of Art and Design Antwerp, where she was granted “De Lucas” award for her thesis ‘Rituals for Audiovisual Performances’. She participated in the preparatory year for Mime (2019) at the Academy for Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam.

Most recently, she graduated as part of the artistic research team at the Advanced Master of Research in Art and Design (2021) at Sint Lucas University College of Art and Design Antwerp.