Upcoming:


2024

7 - 16th of June | Oerol | performance & music | in collab with Ososonic - sound art

22 - 26 July | AIR @Art-S-Cool during Art Bootcamp | Den Haag

13 - 15th of September | ACRXL | in collab with WTC Art Gallery and Art Index Rotterdam | performance

October | AIR @WitteRook | Breda

30th of November | Dear Shapes in Space @Papengas in Nijmegen | curating performance art event | in collab with POPOP


Art is Life & Life is Art

Jessica (she/they) creates sensory performances, music, rituals and speculative tools, and visual installations as means for mankind to collectively evolve towards the new age: the Symbioceen. Performatively and artistically researching and writing on topic of The Art of Living (LevensKunst) as her contribution for man and nature to again co-inhabite our beautiful earth in harmony again.

| #Folklorist | #AlterModernManifest | #ArtOfLiving | #Symbioceen | #Nature | #Artivism |

Jessica works and lives in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Portfolio available upon request



BIO

Be it for human beings like me, be it for other animals, plants, nature-beings, born into domains, ruled, manipulated and supressed by pover human minds. It seems to be an endless and fruitless undertaking: the journey: fighting free from it’s shadows and evolving towards the new world. So endless and hopeless it often seems. But the fibers in our stardust-based bodies still know; in affection and silence it can deeply remember:
‘’In the end it only took trusting, in a mustard seed.’’


Jessica van Deursen (she/they: it’s all is okay) is working on a artsy fartsy movement: one that will change the world. Nothing less. Period. But not sharing too many words here yet. If you want to be part in this to-be historic movement towards the Alter Modernity, then subscribe to the newsletter below, and receive all inside information.

Jessica’s work can be seen as a diary of her own journey as a human being. Saying ‘fuck you’ to the odds of growing up in a troubled family, and breaking free from it’s subsequent conditions. She handles her life as the subject of her investigation on the nature/nurture question. Just curious as to how far she can take it, in this life long undertaking, she calls her endeavor‘‘LevensKunst’’ (Art of Living).

Over the last 10 years or so, Jessica created happenings and performances. In often very testing performances, she explored her physical and mental capabilities.

Through combinations of music, installation, performance and storytelling, she created spa-like retreats, dreamlike worlds and other estranging realms for the visitor to walk right into, to explore their minds and bodies along, and to dive into unexplored alternative realms, together with the artist(s). [Like in The Great Health]

More recently, she started ‘performatively designing’ tools, rituals and methods for alternative ways of living: more sustainable, autonomous and more engaged, minimalist and eco-friendly: for more consious ways of living. Often based on researching forgotten ancient european traditions, knowledge, and crafts. Translating them into contemporary and appealing practically applicable desings. Because that way, her online blog-followers, can join her in the process and think along.
Like creating a hyper ecological and ‘klederdracht’ (Dutch folklore wear’) inspired minimalist set of clothing, which she wore for a full year to test this lifestyle [Re-Fashion]. During covid-times, the started creating her own medicine from herbs that grow no further than one kilometer from her home or temporary residence [Re-Pharmacy].

In 2016 Jessica was rewarded the Young Talent Grand by the Mondriaan Foundation for her work.

Forthcoming and recent previous solo/duo exhibitions include Art Rotterdam (NL) | Glasshouse NYC (US) | Palazzo del Mora, Venice (IT) | Trienal Deformes (CL), Pictura, Dordrecht (NL) | KIPAF, Kolkata (IN) | Concordia, Enschede (NL) | Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (NL) | Root Gallery, Rotterdam (NL) | Pulchri studios, The Hague (NL) | Defibrilator Performance Art Gallery, Chicago (US) | Goethe Institut, Rotterdam (NL) | Art ZNSTD, Zaandam (NL) Stedelijk Museum Breda (NL) | This Art Fair, Amsterdam (NL)