Vanz Myint

Meow meow meow meow meow (Welcome to the digital realm)

My practice explores the performance of self through digital media, using the screen as both a mirror and a stage. I record myself through tools like Photobooth and screen capture, layering and repeating my image until it becomes fragmented, multiplied, and strange. Through this repetition, I investigate how femininity, anger, and desire are mediated online — how beauty and digital culture intersect to both empower and confine.

I’m interested in how digital spaces amplify performance, where gestures of softness, “prettiness,” and self-presentation become forms of control, irony, or rebellion. My work often deals with themes of consumption, identity, and the gaze, inspired by internet culture, postfeminist theory, and the scene girl/ internet personas.

Dream Girl (2025)

Digital video performance, 2 min 27 secs

Dream Girl explores the experience of being hypersexualised and reduced to an object of desire. The work is based on a true story: a friend eating a strawberry shortcake on a date, later told that he “imagined himself as the fork.” This disturbing statement transforms an innocent moment into one of discomfort and shame.

In the video, restrained anger is expressed through repetition, eating, posing, and appearing calm. Yet anger seeps out, the frustration lingers beneath. The viewer becomes complicit in the act of looking. The work questions how femininity is expected to remain beautiful and composed even when confronted with violation.

Hangry_Consume (2025)

Digital video and screen collage, 3 min 31 sec

This work explores parallels between physical consumption and digital consumption — eating and scrolling. Referencing Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation, hangry_consume reflects on the endless cycle of indulgence within internet culture: consuming food while consuming information, letting both go cold.

It reimagines the “TV dinner” as a contemporary ritual of doomscrolling, where entertainment, news, and desire blur into one continuous feed. The work critiques how social media turns nourishment into spectacle and thought into consumption.

D16174l G1rL’5 vL06 (2025)

Filtered video performance with text overlay

An obscured figure applies makeup in an endless tutorial loop, her face blurred, her typed words unreadable. D16174l G1rL’5 vL06 draws from alt-girl aesthetics and YouTube vlogger culture to question identity, visibility, and self-curation.

The filter hides as much as it reveals: the performer is everywhere and nowhere, performing femininity for an invisible audience. The work becomes a digital ghost of girlhood, mediated, aestheticised, and endlessly performing.

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