March 16, 2023, 10 am – 2 pm
Many thanks to the artist & writer Jasmine Reimer for her lecture Manifesting Transformation and discussing the works of our participants within the Studio Program at BAI | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.
“… But I’ll keep following myself Elastic. This forest where I survive in order to be is such a mystery. But now I think things are happening. That is: I’m going in. I mean: into the mystery. I myself mysterious and inside the core in which I move swimming, protozoan. One day I childishly said: I can do everything. It was the previewing of one day being able to cast myself off and fall into the abandon of every law. Elastic. The profound joy: the secret ecstasy…
In my core I have the strange impression that I don’t belong to the human species.
– Clarice Lispector, Aqua Viva
Referencing Neolithic goddess mythology and selected texts on the sacred and profane, this presentation will consider how the artist contributes to and changes contemporary mythologies. Focused on the task of representing states of transformation, change, and fluidity, Jasmine will present past work and discuss the role of the artist as myth-maker.” (Text by courtesy of Jasmine Reimer)
Jasmine Reimer is a Canadian artist based in Berlin. Working in non-fiction, fiction, poetry, sculpture, and drawing, her work uses symbolism, myth, and abstraction to investigate states of spiritual transcendence and bodily transformation. Reimer exhibits internationally – most recently at the plumb in Toronto and Khota Kunsthalle in Helsinki. In addition, Reimer writes art criticism, which can be found in Border Crossings Magazine, Peripheral Review, and most recently, Mousse. Following her self-published collection of poetry titled, “Small Obstructions”, Reimer is currently working on a research and writing project about the relationship between contemporary art and spiritual practices.
More information on the Jasmine Reimer Website.
