Through elaborate performance and installation pieces, actions and happenings, artist Jasper Griepink (1988) explores the skills and visions needed to create a healthy and abundant future. In his work, participants are often invited into temporal sacred and/or community spaces. There, the bodies, histories and feelings of participants interact and provoke grass-roots bonding, counter cultural opportunities and the exchange of personal remedies against the virus of global capitalism. In general, Griepink's elaborate projects aim at emancipating forms of behaviour, thinking and spirituality and furthermore try to evolve the eco-centric cohabitation of the planetary spaceship.
Griepink was awarded the Piet Zwart Promotion Award, the Jan Zumbrink Award and is supported by various national arts councils. His work was shown at Art Rotterdam, Lustwarande Tilburg, MuHKA Antwerp, TENT Rotterdam, Witte de With Rotterdam, 1646 The Hague, ZERP Gallery Rotterdam and internationally at Tidens Krav, Oslo and The Manse, Ithaca (NY).
Projects
- GROVE 2.0 - Chapel of Wild WisdomGriepink has designed a garden in and around a dome-shaped greenhouse, inspired by both druidic ritual gatherings and the permaculture movement. The outdoor installation functions as both a greenhouse for (local) herbs & poisons as well as a space for meditation and self-reflection. The dome, made of branches, wood and sheets of plastic, contains varieties of wild plants found at park De Oude Warande (Tilburg, NL). Since ancient time, wise (wo-)men of the woods have come together to learn from M
- LOVE SPACELOVE SPACE is an arts & performance project featuring a migratory temporary Temple of Love that functions as a community centre. Within the project, people can gain a deeper awareness of sexuality, eroticism and partnership. Jasper Griepink believes sexual energy has healing powers. People who are interested can come to the LOVE SPACE to make love and free their sexual intimacy from fear, conditioning and hidden contracts. LOVE SPACE is an attempt to link the personal and private with the publi
Work history
Writer
Amsterdam, NetherlandsFreelance
Writer / Column Writer
O, Wonder! (Magazine on Green Culture by curator Collette Olof)
Tasks; writing article for each edition, research, photography, word processing, translations.
Guest Teacher / Lecturer
NetherlandsFreelance
Guest lecturer
- University of Amsterdam (Art History)
Tasks; lecture on work and on subject matter of primitiveism. Conversations with students.
- Sandberg Institute Amsterdam (Cure Master)
Tasks; studio visits, lecture on work, conversations with students, assessment work, consulting, listening.
- Also Guest Teaching at HKU (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht) and KABK (Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague)
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Skills
- Brilliant Writer
- Art Performance
- Event Hosting
- Healing Arts
- Therapeutic Arts
- Artworker/designer
- Creative Writing
- Art Production
- Interviewing Skills
- Concept Develoment
Education
Independent Intuitive Spiritual Psychotherapist
The Hague, Netherlands
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PDC Permaculture Design Certificate
- Lake Atitlán, Guatemala
Degree in Permaculture Design, Natural Building and Mayan Cosmology.
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Awards
Piet Zwart Institute Promotion Award
Jasper’s central search for meaning in our bodily experience is an open one. Within what could be an overly defined, linear performance of ritual, the jury was struck by Jasper’s willingness to base “Laya Papaya Public Bath” on, firstly, a public call for participants and, secondly, on maintaining that a large part of the performance process, content and duration should be intuitively felt between himself as host and the body of the participant – pointing toward a creative process often contained only within the walls of an artist’s studio.
“Laya Papaya Public Bath” features a large platform in the exhibition space and a series of performances involving members of the public. For many visitors to the exhibition, the first mode, the platform, is all they might see – although this mode has specific activity written all over it: the bespoke wooden platform houses a raft of very special ingredients, tools, materials, various oils and clays, that point towards a specific process or ritual, the tone of which is extrapolated further by the connotations of the objects and materials, and in a series of small, figurative drawings hung on the surrounding walls. The second mode, the series of performances, involves Jasper and self-selected members of the public, who can sign up and join a ritual in which the artist mixes a series of clays from the installation, and applies them, with plants, herbs and oils, to the bodies of his participants who then lie or stand for various durations. This is a simple description, and one that does not include the subtle role of the host, of care, of decoration and of an individually tailored experience, crucial components that are central to Jasper’s work and a guest’s experience. Jasper’s work is committed to a consciousness of the body and, concurrently, nurturing the role a contemporary artist could embody as a healer.
We were interested in Jasper’s exploration and depiction of contemporary fears and desires as they are encapsulated in our attitudes toward transformation, change and temporality. His choice to expand this exploration via performance, by making use of bystanders, is exciting and bold. Through the ephemerality and unpredictability of interactive performance, Jasper provides an opportunity for unknown outcomes. Because of this, a profound subject is brought to the fore for audiences in a tangible and accessible way. The jury was impressed by Jasper’s hands-on engagement with the question of the body as a central, but under-nurtured, territory. We understood this engagement as being both urgent in our current context, and, through Jasper’s choices of forms and processes, as indicative of an art practice that shows a clear, confident understanding of Western art historical instances of the artist as performer, persona, shaman, mystic, shapeshifter, healer. His specially developed understanding and trust in an ephemeral vocabulary of clays, oils, fabrics, and plant and animal materials and the ways they can create a therapeutic duration, spur an awareness of the skin and key into the power of meditation. This, all pulled together with public participation, forms a striking and bold project.
*Jury Members: Laura Almarcegui, Sjarel Ex (chairperson), Marnie Slater, Tom van Odijk, Hans Walgenbach