Venus Jasper is a Queer visual artist, storyteller, world builder, singer-priestess, writer, educator and curator, based in Amsterdam (NL). Via their counter-cultural and ritualistic art they forward trans-historic and Queer perspectives on ecology, folklore, contemporary culture, spirituality and the self.
Scare the established order, by falling in love, deeply, with all things green
In 2017, a futuristic pagan performer was intimate with the trees and greens in a city center for approximately 2-hours. During their appearance this A5 size riso-printed hand-out was distributed, featuring a textual piece and a speculative graph. The text is a call-to-arms of sorts, invoking pagan adolescents to rise and resist the onslaught of capitalism.
The text on the pamphlet is used for the video Ultra Ecosexual Polyamory. Permaculture ASAP, shown at Onomatopee, LeGuessWho?, ZERO FOOTPRINT | IMPAKT Festival 2020. It is also part of REGENERART's e-learning course and textbook for European secondary school teachers. The poem was read at the opening of ORGONOMICS, at Garage Rotterdam. The video work is also part of the online platform PerformVU since 2024.
Some copies of the pamphlet are still available, message when interested.