Author: Stephanie Smit
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A New World – Transcending Time and Space
Immersive Installation and Performative Divination During Manifestations – Dutch Design Weeks, Stephanie Smit placed herself within the center of the installation, inviting visitors to sit beside her for intimate tarot and astrology readings exploring karmic patterns, soul evolution, symbolic identity, and personal transformation. Through intuitive dialogue, symbolic interpretation, and astrological analysis, participants were guided toward…
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The Great Game Podcast – Interview
Giek was invited by Art Worldbuilding to join for an interview “In this episode Stephanie “Giek” from Giekonstruct talks about their experience with the separation of the body, the mind and the spirit while finding the right momentum to perform higlhly energy demanding activities. Additionally we will try to look at life through the lens…
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Meiden van Kots – Kots CD recensie op Festivalinfo
Op muziek- en festivalplatform Festivalinfo verscheen een recensie van de Kots CD van Meiden van Kots, het performance- en muziekproject waar ook Stephanie Smit deel van uitmaakt. In de recensie worden zowel de muzikale kenmerken als de artistieke insteek van de CD besproken, met aandacht voor de manier waarop Meiden van Kots geluid, spel en…
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Stephanie Smit met Kots in Zwartsluis Actueel
In 2016 trad Stephanie Smit op tijdens het cultuur- en muziekfestival Water & Muze met het performanceproject Meiden van Kots. Het optreden werd vastgelegd door Zwartsluis Actueel, dat de performance omschreef als een onuitwisbare ervaring voor het publiek. Het artikel belicht de intensiteit en eigenzinnigheid van het optreden, waarin muziek, performance en theatrale elementen samenkwamen.…
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The 5th Dimension and Beyond
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Frederique and Giek merge together in ‘The 5th Dimension and Beyond’ to channel large amounts of data quickly into scattered and rather random bizarre advice which may or may not be the logic of the Universe.
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RECLAIMING THE CHURCH
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RECLAIMING THE CHURCH was a site-specific multimedia performance gathering developed in collaboration with Abbess NuN and organist Samuel Kok inside St.-Martin-Kirche Potshausen, Germany in 2022. The event brought together fragments of KYBALION the Musical, ritual performance, live improvisation, opera, organ music, symbolic storytelling, and experimental sound environments within a temporary contemplative space exploring spirituality, embodiment,…
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OFF THE REALITY
OFF THE REALITY began as an audiovisual EP developed between 2017 and 2018 by multidisciplinary artist Giek (Stephanie Smit), in collaboration with producer J(ay).A.D. Emerging from a period marked by addiction, emotional fragmentation, altered states, obsessive love, and increasing detachment from consensual reality, the project gradually evolved far beyond music alone. Originally conceived as…
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KAOS KIA
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KAOS KIA KAOS KIA was a multidisciplinary exhibition and multimedia gathering format developed by Giek_1 and Myen in collaboration with SLUG Gallery Leipzig in 2022. Combining performance, installation art, sculpture, visual media, scenography, sound, symbolic storytelling, and participatory ritual environments, the project explored themes of healing, cybernetic ritualism, mythology, Chaos Magick, technological consciousness, and New…
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Tanz und Bewegung
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A collaboration with Alina Belyagina on a research in movement around the themes of ‘vulnerability’ taking inspiration and basic ideas from Greek mythology and folklore about the vulnerability of the body. The lesson is not only that invulnerability cannot be absolute, but also that not every experience leads to vulnerability.