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Venus Jasper is a Queer visual artist, storyteller, world builder, singer-priestess, public speaker, designer, researcher, educator, writer, and curator, based between Amsterdam and Antwerp.

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Educating

Do you teach?

Besides my artistic practice, I frequently teach at visual art programs, both bachelor and masters, with courses by my own design. Occasionally I teach at other academic programs as well. I create workshops, give talks, perform studio visits and make other educational contributions.

Art School Courses

Tutor Scenography AHK (BA)

In 2024 - 2025, I teach the Performative Costume Design as part of the course Radical Thinking, designed by Carly Everaert. In the module, Scenography and Mime students collaborate together, embodying creative questions and expressions in a critical way. Besides this I have an advisory role for the Scenography departement development.

Tutor BEAR ArtEZ (BFA)

In 2023, I taught Future Fields at BEAR, ArtEZ, Arnhem (NL). A 6-week course that considered how speculative futures can contribute to new relations with the land, and "new" ways of living, prompted by ongoing climate and societal change. From macro to micro, from big dreams to significant details; we asked who and what to consider while "designing" the future. In the  course, in which I collaborated with Four Siblings project, students consider art-making, filmmaking, writing, farming, land-skills, story-telling and rituals as tools to conjure more just futures.

Tutor Ecology Futures (MFA)

In 2021 - 2022, I taught Community of All Beings and Future Fields at the Ecology Futures MA, MIVC|St. Joost, Den Bosch (NL). Both focus on the development, contemplation and materialization of 'progressive' more-than-human futures. Students investigate the western concept of ‘nature’ and how it creates false dichotomies. They look at a queering of the world, investigate colonial and industrial sentiments hidden in futurisms, and explore ontologies that surpass western ways of seeing things.

Workshops & Symposia

2024
AIRIE ASKS, Florida, USA

As part of my month-long AiR at AIRIE Everglades (USA), I was interviewed by Miami-based artist and queer ecologist Lee Pivnik, the founder of the Institute of Queer Ecology. In the talk, hosted by Arsimmer McCoy at downtown Greenspace Miami, I share about my recent art projects, Wetlands Worship, and my time in the Everglades.

2023
EARTHBOUND Symposium, Denmark

I spoke at the EARTHBOUND "Sensuous knowledge and the planet’s future" Symposium; a program created by Earthwise Denmark, in collaboration with Aarhus University. Participants took part in a 7-day workshop event, ending with 2 days of talks and discussion with me, artist Katarina Skår Lisa, Christine Fentz, and scholar Liisa-Rávná Finbog. In 2025 and 2027 I return to this symposium.

2022
EARTH CRAFT, KABK Studium Generale

Here, I contributed to EARTH CRAFT at the Studium Generale of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague. I hosted dialogues with great minds such as Vandana Shiva and Zhenevere Sophia Dao. Together with academic-activist Victoria McKenzie, I offered a workshop ritual in which we built 'Future Soil'.

2022
Is soil sacred? MU Hybrid Art House

Here, I created the weekend symposium Is Soil Sacred? as part of my solo-show at MU, Eindhoven. Victoria McKenzie, Georgia Kareola and myself held a discursive conversation, and later offered a music-ritual in which audiences entangled themselves with soil. The exhibition furthermore featured a library table with over 40 titles focused on soil belonging and entanglements with the more-than-human curated by Angelique Spaniks and myself.

2022
Mister Motley
X RE_NATURE

I offered the workshops How to Become a Soil Priestess? in collaboration with Mister Motley and RE_NATURE. In this workshop, participants explored how artistic practices and ecological knowledge can be applied through the creation of a performative "priestess" persona.

2021
LAND, ArtEZ Studium Generale

Some of my artistic work is included in the online course created by Anouk Mulders for ArtEZ Studium Generale, Arnhem. The course is still available here.

Other Contributions


2024
 Mentor at Re:Opera | Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam (NL).
2022
Mentor at the Master|Apprentice project, making an exhibiton at Odapark, Venray (NL).
2022
Have we Met? MU Hybrid Art House podcast about Queer Nature, world-building, Ecofeminism and The Sacred (Dutch)
2021
My artistic work is included in REGENERART's e-learning course and textbook for European secondary school teachers.
2015
 Guest Tutor at Sandberg Institute's CURE MASTER (NL)
2015
 Guest Speaker at University of Amsterdam Primitivism in the Arts | Art History (NL)
2011 - ∞
Studio visits at the Fine Arts departments of Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, ArtEZ Arnhem, and KABK The Hague (NL)


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