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Stephanie Schuitemaker

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"The value of an artwork is the extent to which it touches you"

Okakura Kakuzo, The book of Tea

                                             

This is both my answer and the beginning of my pursuit of art’s intrinsic value.

Fascinated by the ungraspable, transformative power of art, I research and explore how art moves us in a time when almost everything appears possible, producible, and consumable, yet guidance feels scarce. I explore how art may become a living encounter, guiding, nurturing healing, cultivating inner wisdom, and creating belonging rather than something merely to be consumed or possessed.

How do we meet art?
Why does it hold value for us?
How do we deepen and embed its touch?

As an Art Guide, I create ways to listen and deepen our resonance with art.

Within Performative Hosting, I create spaces that encourage openness, stillness, and attunement to the poetics of the space and the artwork. I work with my presence, gestures, creative collaborators, and an ensemble of objects that invite participation. A delicate dance between guidance and poetic openness, hosting and performance.

Within the hosting ensemble, I create, commission, and curate objects as guides, forming transition spaces for encountering art.

I develop cultural models that embody art’s intrinsic value. Grounded in macroeconomics, my research into resonance and hosting, the agency of objects, and my work with foundations, these models create the conditions for art to guide, cultivate, and regenerate.

 

Lectures offer deeper insight into how resonance works and how being moved by art may be embedded into daily life. They explore how art may guide us in cultivating intuition and inner wisdom.

 

Art has moved and transformed me.
It is this space I hold for others.

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Curating, creating, and hosting genuine artistic transition spaces, gatherings, and ceremonies with art.

Performative Hosting

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An artistic inquiry into the value of art through frameworks that guide, cultivate, and regenerate.

Cultural Models & Lectures

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Creating, curating and commissioning embodied objects that invite gestures cultivating a state of being with art.

Hosting Ensemble - Objects

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