Art Office

Jessica van Deursen

photography - installation - performance - sculpture - video

''Art is Life & Life is Art''
Stijn Huijts (director of the Bonnefanten Museum):

"Jessica van Deursen is a performance artist, who pushes the boundaries of the common fine-arts practice. Not only does she challenge the borders between her art and her personal life, she also challenges her own mental and physical limits"

The works of Jessica van Deursen investigate the designability of ones course in life, similarly this has been explored both practically and theoretically, for many centuries, within the philosophical tradition of the art of living.

She(/they) does so by exploring her physical and mental capacities, in often very challenging performances. And also by designing new rituals, practical tools and (alternative) lifestyles, which she tests during her own daily life as (durational) performances.

Her works occurs as performances, objects, installations, photographs, video, but also by sharing her research and visual process on her blog Arty Farty Life.