Jan Hakon Erichsen works with performance for video, which he shares daily across his social media. In Erichsen’s videos he explores the things we surround ourselves with, often through destroying everyday objects in excessive ways or using them in an unorthodox manner. His performance works are usually sculpturally based, with crude destruction machines as a reoccurring theme. Erichsen makes everything from very simple devices to complex contraptions that are all designed to destroy everyday objects of low monetary value.
The last six years Erichsen has been working with the internet as his main arena to showcase his work and in that time Erichsen has become one of the performance artists who reaches the most people this way, with a large following and millions of video views.
Erichsen’s art has been shown at numerous galleries and institutions around the world since he finished hiseducation at The Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2004.