Artistic Practice

Decoding the Past | Artistic Reincarnation Research Lecture Lecture development initiated at Aetheria Residency, Crete (May 2025) — premiered at Occulture Conference Berlin 2025.

Were You Jim Morrison in a Past Life? Why do so many people believe they were Jim Morrison? Across dreams, psychedelic experiences, online forums, intuitive memories, tarot readings, hypnosis sessions, and spiritual communities, the figure of Jim Morrison repeatedly reappears — not only as a musician, but as a myth, projection, archetype, and symbolic identity.

  Mystical Musical Performance A Soul’s Journey is a mystical and esoteric performance blending theatrical musicality, poetic storytelling, ritual symbolism, and experimental composition into an immersive contemplative experience exploring soul remembrance, spiritual transformation, and identity beyond linear time.

KYBALION the Musical is a Grand Mythos in which we travel from the beginning of time to the New World as an alchemical synthesis of ancient Hermetic teachings and Pythagorean formulas from which we shall distill the Universal Truth.

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.

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.

Dancing as an offering to Mother Earth.

RECLAIMING THE CHURCH was a site-specific multimedia performance gathering developed in collaboration with Abbess NuN and organist Samuel Kok inside St.

GIEKONSTRUCT is a zero-waste, upcycle fashion brand that creates Prosperous garments through an Alchemical process.

  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).

Giek_1 using her vessel to channel messages and sounds into the New World.

‘A New World’ is a divination performance where Giek_1 delves into a person’s soul, revealing their path in the material world.

Giek_1’s transformative and mind-expanding live show, ‘OWN REALITY,’ tells a story of hope and strength in the midst of the escapism and passion fueled confusion of our generation.

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.

Theater performance about the essential process of balancing our inner masculine and feminine aspects, leading to unconditional self-love, transcending duality, self-actualization, and uncovering the secrets of the Universe.

Multiple lifetimes Giek has been channeling the Universe into poetry.

As our physical world is struggling to sustain our current way of life, we must confront the void within ourselves and emerge transformed.

In the videoseries ‘Spiritual Ecology Trilogy,’ I explore how our inner spiritual struggles in the Anthropocene era are mirrored in our interactions with the environment.

Giek, in collaboration with Chabela Maturana Parraguez and Enrique Arce Gutierrez, facilitated the LEF Global Lab conversations in 2020 for Rijkswaterstaat.

In December 2018, I was selected to collaborate with the Jazzorchestra of the Concert Hall Amsterdam on a project.

As the Earth crumbles under the weight of ancestral trauma; the old systems no longer provide a place for us.

“The EP, ‘ESCAPE’ (written in 2017-2018), tells the story of how my spiritual awakening lines up with the different stages in a romantic relationship.

INSERT premiered the track ‘Ascending’: “‘Ascending’ is the EP’s dramatic and glacial opener; which sees Giek_1 merge countless layers of choral vocals over a new-age Eski beat.

Together with Enrique Arce Gutuerrez (Sphynx) Giek got selected for Choreographic Coding Lab 2019.

Giek_1 is the creation of an internet identity for the yung ones in this fast technological generation.

During theater school, Giek teamed up with Marleen van Zon to form a daring comedy duo that challenged taboos.

After a long travel through the universe Zidonian X and Giek have found each other.

Right in the middle of the shift from the nightlife lifestyle to theater school she started performing at clubs.

“Sirius is a planet Earth can be jealous of: 99% of the planet is a fucking filthy Goodie.