NEWS:
In 2023, I am renewing this website and my blog itallcomesdowntoearth.com in collaboration with Neo-Metabolism. Also, I am working on a new publication called Portal Planet - on neuro-divergent nervous system regulation with "nature".
I am working also on new music, story-writing and a video/world around a SWAMP GODDESS, read more about it in this recent blog post. Want to stay updated on my activities? Sign up for my Newsletter here. Many blessings, X
Upcoming shows & engagements:
April 20 - 23, EARTH BONDS symposium at Rupert, Vilnius Lithuania
July 1 - 31, SÍM Residency, Reykjavik Iceland
July 9 - 16, LungA Festival, Seyðisfjörður Iceland
Sep 1 - 7, visiting Bienal de São Paulo with Mondrian Fund
Sept 4 - Oct 10, Future Fields course at BEAR/ArtEZ Arnhem
Oct 12, Earthbound Symposium, Aarhus University Denmark
May 2024, AIRIE residency at Everglades, Florida (USA)
April/June 2025, ceramic residency at EKWC (NL)
_ Have we Met? interview with MU about EARTHSHRINE (Dutch language)
Dialogue about worldbuilding, the Sacred, Eco-Feminism and Queer Nature
_ EARTH CRAFT x KABK, workshop + talks and KABK, The Hague: November 24, Future Soils, workshop with Jasper Griepink & Victoria McKenzie December 1, Vandana Shiva (on location), hosted by Jasper Griepink & Victoria McKenzie
_ OPYUM Festival 22 - EMPATHY, video-performance festival, Paris
International premiere of video artwork EARTH(hurt)
Jasper creates Participatory Performances, Visual and Sensorial Installations, Music, Stories, Research & Words, forwarding ontological entanglements that provide more queer space for emobodied eco-ecstasy and the mytho-ecological re(story)ation of the planetary spaceship.
Jasper is currently based in the Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Portfolio available upon request.
Tutor BEAR ArtEZ, BfA
In 2023, Jasper taught the module Future Field at BEAR/ArtEZ, Arnhem. Considering climate change, new relations with the land and new ways of living are immanent - speculative futures are needed! From macro to micro, from big dreams to significant details; when thinking about and design the future, what should we consider? What should we be mindful of? Whose future are we talking about? In the course, students consider art-making, filmmaking, writing, farming, land-skills, story-telling and rituals as tools to create and conjure futures.
Tutor Ecology Futures MA
In 2021 and 2022, Jasper taught modules such as Community of All Beings and Future Field at the Ecology Futures MA, Den Bosch. The modules focus on the development, contemplation and materialization of 'progressive' more-than-human futurisms. Students investigate the meaning of ‘nature’ and how it has created false dichotomies, they look at how a queering of the world can bring about new avenues of thought and development, will read about indigenous cosmologies and languages that surpass the western way of seeing things and survey the (hidden) colonial or western/industrial sentiments they are bringing into their proposed futures.
Workshops & Symposiums
In 2022, Jasper contributed to EARTH CRAFT at the Studium Generale of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, hosting dialogues with great minds such as Vandana Shiva and Zhenevere Sophia Dao. Together with academic-activist Victoria McKenzie, Jasper offered a workshop ritual around 'Future Soil' at the Royal Academy The Hague (2022), which they also conducted during the Is Soil Sacred? symposium at MU Hybrid Art House Eindhoven, which Griepink organized there in the same year. Jasper offered the workshops How to Become a Soil Priestess? in collaboration with Mister Motley and RE_NATURE in 2022. His work was included in the LAND program at Studium Generale ArtEZ, Arnhem (2021) and is now part of an online course there. As part of their exhibition EARTHSHRINE, Jasper curated a reading table with over 40 titles focused on soil belonging and entanglements with the more-than-human.
- LAND, free online course 'LAND' about land-ownership and climate change (Dutch language)
- Seeds of Vandana Shiva, talk between Vandana Shiva, Victoria McKenzie and Jasper Griepink (English)
- Is Soil Sacred? Lecture and dialogue on Sacredness and Soil relations (English)
- Mysterium Tremendum, dialogue between Zhenevere Sophia Dao and Jasper Griepink (English)
Other Guest Teaching & Contributions
Jasper was a guest tutor at Sandberg Institute's CURE MASTER (2015), University of Amsterdam Primitivism in the Arts program (2015), and the Fine Arts departments of Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht and KABK, The Hague (2011-2021). In 2021, their work was included in REGENERART's e-learning course and textbook for European secondary school teachers, and in 2023 they contributed a podcast and educational material in collaboration with MU, Eindhoven for decreatievecode.nl, a platform for high school art education. Besides this, Jasper has developed educational programs centered on art & ecology for various primary schools in Amsterdam in the period of 2017-2019. Often, their educational material becomes part of their art projects.
- Have we Met?, Podcast about Queer Nature, world-building, Ecofeminism and The Sacred (Dutch)
- Trees Have Been Know to Move, engaging video for young students in Drenthe (Dutch)
In 2021, Jasper co-curated the manifestation RE_NATURE together with curator Imke Ruigrok in several locations in Den Bosch, Netherlands. For RE_NATURE, Jasper focused on RE_MEMBER: a thematic exhibition with a side program related to UNROOTING and REROOTING in the sense of finding non-western connection and experiences of "nature" and what has destroyed such connections. RE_MEMBER included: Tabita Rezaire (FR), Institute of Queer Ecology (USA), Melanie Bonajo (NL), Zheng Bo (CN), Arahmaiani (ID), Keiko Sato (JP), Amanda Piña (CL) and Müge Yilmaz (TR). The whole festival presented 45 artists and projects.
In spring 2022, Jasper Griepink was invited by Colette Olof to co-curate a show in MELKWEG EXPO Amsterdam. Orbiting the work of Robin Wall Kimmerer and notions of the more-than-human, the show All Flourishing is Mutual brought together young, local, and international names such as Sissel Marie Tonn (DK), Layla Durrani & Liza Prins (NL/USA) and others. Through Jasper's invitation, the platform Queer Nature (USA) and artist Ella Yolande (UK) both had their first show in the Netherlands.
Jasper Griepink also frequently invites and involves other makers, artists and thinkers into their exhibitions, their performances and live projects. For their work see the main portfolio at this website, under "work".
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