Upcoming:


2024

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


20th of June | presenting AIR @Art-S-Cool at Nooit Meer Naar Huis | Scheveningen
In collab with Lilian Kreuzberger, Antonio Guzman, Yair Callender, Timothy Scholte, Beng Yuengyong, Leslie Nagel, Mourad Aouragh en Afra Eisma |
ELJA Foundation


1st of September | presenting AIR @Art-S-Cool at Bosspot festival | Amersfoort
In collab with Lilian Kreuzberger, Antonio Guzman, Yair Callender, Timothy Scholte, Beng Yuengyong, Leslie Nagel, Mourad Aouragh en Afra Eisma |
ELJA Foundation


20 & 21 September | 1st of September | presenting AIR @Art-S-Cool at Into the Woods Festival | Amersfoort
In collab with Lilian Kreuzberger, Antonio Guzman, Yair Callender, Timothy Scholte, Beng Yuengyong, Leslie Nagel, Mourad Aouragh en Afra Eisma |
ELJA Foundation


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



2025

1st of February | Performance | Art Rotterdam


28 of March - 16th of April | Auw! Wauw! - Verbeelding van verdriet en troost | Lebuinuskerk | Deventer


23rd of June - 11th of July | Teaching performance art course | University of Xiamen | China


Sept - October | Screening PLOW | The inaugural Festival of Video Performance Art | Helsinki, Vienna, and Riga


November 30 | 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM | Papengas 6, Nijmegen |
Entry €8.50

POPOP Art presents Dear Shapes in Space in Nijmegen! Featuring over 15 performance artists from across the Netherlands, this two-hour performance 'opera' invites you to walk around in a trance-inducing atmosphere, moving from one performance to the next. The performers will share their visions of the future through poetic, gripping, ritualistic, and musical performances.

Performers: Ni Wayan Cynthia, Yair Callender & Işıl Ercanlı, Nino den Hartog & team,
Daauwe van Huizen, Toine Klaassen, Lyz, Louis Nurcombe, Lio Spinnewijn & team,
Hannah Staal, Berendine Venemans | Curator: Jessica van Deursen

With special thanks to: Municipality of Nijmegen, Het Cultuurfonds, and the International Drawing Center.

Order your tickets here

Performance image: Yvette Teeuwen, FUTURISTIC YIN YANG /// Y-snake (2024)

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.

Working with performance - music - food art - fine arts - storytelling
| #Folklorist | #AlterModernManifest | #ArtOfLiving | #Symbioceen | #Nature | #Artivism |

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

Modern Medicine - for Porous Measures (March 18th, 2019)

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 endeavor, she calls ‘‘LevensKunst’’ (Art of Living).

Over the last 15 years, Jessica’s created happenings and performances. In often very testing performances, she explored her physical and mental capabilities.

Through the combination of music, installation, performance and storytelling, she created spa-like retreats [The Great Health] , both dreamlike and disgust-provoking experiences and other estranging realms for the visitor to walk right into, to likewise explore their minds and body’s capabilities, and to dive into unexplored alternative realms, together with the artist(s).

More recently, she started ‘performatively designing’ tools, rituals and lifestyles for alternative ways of living: more sustainable, autonomous and more engaged, minimalist and eco-friendly: for more conscious ways of living. Often based on researching forgotten historic dutch / northern 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.

Jessica studied BA fine-arts at the Willem de Kooning academy in Rotterdam,
Performance-art & Community-art at Codarts / Piet Zwart (MA education)
and a Minor in philosophy at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.


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)