Georgie Brinkman

Split into three acts: Afterlives, Tricksters and Riddles, this ‘live-action essay film’ encapsulates my research conducted as a participant of the Deep Futures Research Group at KABK. Still from video documentation by Alkaios Spyrou.

Opgesplitst in drie aktes: Afterlives, Tricksters en Riddles, deze 'live-action essayfilm' vat mijn onderzoek samen dat ik heb uitgevoerd als deelnemer aan de Deep Futures Research Group aan de KABK. Still uit videodocumentatie van Alkaios Spyrou.

Installation shot of work-in-progress film at LUNA Young Masters 2024 by Gabe Kamphuis. CLOUDCUCKOOLAND is part of a larger artistic research project that uses puppetry to attempt to carve out an afterlife in the poetic imagination for a flock of extinct birds.

Installation shot of work-in-progress film at LUNA Young Masters 2024 by Gabe Kamphuis. CLOUDCUCKOOLAND is part of a larger artistic research project that uses puppetry to attempt to carve out an afterlife in the poetic imagination for a flock of extinct birds.

Installation shot of work-in-progress film at LUNA Young Masters 2024. CLOUDCUCKOOLAND is part of a larger artistic research project that uses puppetry to attempt to carve out an afterlife in the poetic imagination for a flock of extinct birds.

Installation shot of work-in-progress film at LUNA Young Masters 2024. CLOUDCUCKOOLAND is part of a larger artistic research project that uses puppetry to attempt to carve out an afterlife in the poetic imagination for a flock of extinct birds.

Installation shot of work-in-progress film at LUNA Young Masters 2024 by Gabe Kamphuis. CLOUDCUCKOOLAND is part of a larger artistic research project that uses puppetry to attempt to carve out an afterlife in the poetic imagination for a flock of extinct birds.

Finger puppets based on a taxidermied collection of extinct birds at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden.

Video still from work-in-progress film at LUNA Young Masters 2024. CLOUDCUCKOOLAND is part of a larger artistic research project that uses puppetry to attempt to carve out an afterlife in the poetic imagination for a flock of extinct birds.

Video still from work-in-progress film at LUNA Young Masters 2024. CLOUDCUCKOOLAND is part of a larger artistic research project that uses puppetry to attempt to carve out an afterlife in the poetic imagination for a flock of extinct birds.

Video still from work-in-progress film at LUNA Young Masters 2024. CLOUDCUCKOOLAND is part of a larger artistic research project that uses puppetry to attempt to carve out an afterlife in the poetic imagination for a flock of extinct birds.

Video still from work-in-progress film at LUNA Young Masters 2024. CLOUDCUCKOOLAND is part of a larger artistic research project that uses puppetry to attempt to carve out an afterlife in the poetic imagination for a flock of extinct birds.

The moon, with all her mythological and spiritual symbolism throughout humanity’s history, has crash-landed into society today: the paved grounds of luxury capitalism, a hotel carpark. The Lunar Moss Piglets in the Sea of Serenity casts a moment from a fictional narrative into the material world; the moon becoming blanketed in moss. Part of a larger research project reflecting on a curious 2019 incident that saw a spacecraft carrying a colony of moss piglets, or tardigrades crash-landed on the moon. Commissioned by KOP and Stedelijk Museum Breda for ‘Ontdek de Nacht’. The work now is now on indefinite loan to Jan Paagman Observatory in the village of Asten, North Brabant.

The moon, with all her mythological and spiritual symbolism throughout humanity’s history, has crash-landed into society today: the paved grounds of luxury capitalism, a hotel carpark. The Lunar Moss Piglets in the Sea of Serenity casts a moment from a fictional narrative into the material world; the moon becoming blanketed in moss. Part of a larger research project reflecting on a curious 2019 incident that saw a spacecraft carrying a colony of moss piglets, or tardigrades crash-landed on the moon. Commissioned by KOP and Stedelijk Museum Breda for ‘Ontdek de Nacht’. The work now is now on indefinite loan to Jan Paagman Observatory in the village of Asten, North Brabant.

The moon, with all her mythological and spiritual symbolism throughout humanity’s history, has crash-landed into society today: the paved grounds of luxury capitalism, a hotel carpark. The Lunar Moss Piglets in the Sea of Serenity casts a moment from a fictional narrative into the material world; the moon becoming blanketed in moss. Part of a larger research project reflecting on a curious 2019 incident that saw a spacecraft carrying a colony of moss piglets, or tardigrades crash-landed on the moon. Commissioned by KOP and Stedelijk Museum Breda for ‘Ontdek de Nacht’. The work now is now on indefinite loan to Jan Paagman Observatory in the village of Asten, North Brabant.

The moon, with all her mythological and spiritual symbolism throughout humanity’s history, has crash-landed into society today: the paved grounds of luxury capitalism, a hotel carpark. The Lunar Moss Piglets in the Sea of Serenity casts a moment from a fictional narrative into the material world; the moon becoming blanketed in moss. Part of a larger research project reflecting on a curious 2019 incident that saw a spacecraft carrying a colony of moss piglets, or tardigrades crash-landed on the moon. Commissioned by KOP and Stedelijk Museum Breda for ‘Ontdek de Nacht’. The work now is now on indefinite loan to Jan Paagman Observatory in the village of Asten, North Brabant.

In the beginning... is the centrepoint of a multiform research project about a colony of tardigrades who crash-landed on the moon. Tardigrades, known colloquially as moss piglets or water bears, are one of the only animals known to have survived all five mass extinctions. Following the crash of a spacecraft in 2019, they are also the first known Earthling to (potentially) reside on the moon. Commissioned by KOP and Stedelijk Museum Breda for ‘Ontdek de Nacht’.

In the beginning... is the centrepoint of a multiform research project about a colony of tardigrades who crash-landed on the moon. Tardigrades, known colloquially as moss piglets or water bears, are one of the only animals known to have survived all five mass extinctions. Following the crash of a spacecraft in 2019, they are also the first known Earthling to (potentially) reside on the moon. Commissioned by KOP and Stedelijk Museum Breda for ‘Ontdek de Nacht’.

In the beginning... is the centrepoint of a multiform research project about a colony of tardigrades who crash-landed on the moon. Tardigrades, known colloquially as moss piglets or water bears, are one of the only animals known to have survived all five mass extinctions. Following the crash of a spacecraft in 2019, they are also the first known Earthling to (potentially) reside on the moon. Commissioned by KOP and Stedelijk Museum Breda for ‘Ontdek de Nacht’.

Video still. This video is the story of a ghost bird whom I have named Audrey. She is small parrot made extinct when eaten out of existence by British colonists on Norfolk Island. By transforming myself into the extinct Norfolk Kaka I engage in an attempt to bring her back to life, allowing her to consume me instead. Audrey & I, our histories tied asks in what ways we can confront the terrors of the past to reflect on impending terrors of the future? Produced for the symposium ‘Impossible Stories; Linking Colonial Collections and Climate Change through Critical Fabulation’ at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam. Later screened as part of ‘Hybrid Dialogues’ at PuntWG, Amsterdam and ‘Afterlives’ at Stroom Den Haag.

Video still. This video is the story of a ghost bird whom I have named Audrey. She is small parrot made extinct when eaten out of existence by British colonists on Norfolk Island. By transforming myself into the extinct Norfolk Kaka I engage in an attempt to bring her back to life, allowing her to consume me instead. Audrey & I, our histories tied asks in what ways we can confront the terrors of the past to reflect on impending terrors of the future? Produced for the symposium ‘Impossible Stories; Linking Colonial Collections and Climate Change through Critical Fabulation’ at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam. Later screened as part of ‘Hybrid Dialogues’ at PuntWG, Amsterdam and ‘Afterlives’ at Stroom Den Haag.

Video still. This video is the story of a ghost bird whom I have named Audrey. She is small parrot made extinct when eaten out of existence by British colonists on Norfolk Island. By transforming myself into the extinct Norfolk Kaka I engage in an attempt to bring her back to life, allowing her to consume me instead. Audrey & I, our histories tied asks in what ways we can confront the terrors of the past to reflect on impending terrors of the future? Produced for the symposium ‘Impossible Stories; Linking Colonial Collections and Climate Change through Critical Fabulation’ at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam. Later screened as part of ‘Hybrid Dialogues’ at PuntWG, Amsterdam and ‘Afterlives’ at Stroom Den Haag.

Research images for a film work in progress. A collaboration with Alex Wight. We were invited to take part in a residency at AADK in Spain in April 2023 to develop the work. La Curiosidad will be a short narrative film about a pigeon sport called colombicultura, made in the genre of magic realism. The story will follow an elderly man, a pigeon keeper who was recently widowed. He believes that the soul of his late wife is encapsulated in a female pigeon, and that if his colourful, male pigeon succeeds in the mating game of colombicultura she will be brought back to life. The film will include a dream-like sequence containing a puppet model of one of the painted pigeons.

Research images for a film work in progress. A collaboration with Alex Wight. We were invited to take part in a residency at AADK in Spain in April 2023 to develop the work. La Curiosidad will be a short narrative film about a pigeon sport called colombicultura, made in the genre of magic realism. The story will follow an elderly man, a pigeon keeper who was recently widowed. He believes that the soul of his late wife is encapsulated in a female pigeon, and that if his colourful, male pigeon succeeds in the mating game of colombicultura she will be brought back to life. The film will include a dream-like sequence containing a puppet model of one of the painted pigeons.

Research images for a film work in progress. A collaboration with Alex Wight. We were invited to take part in a residency at AADK in Spain in April 2023 to develop the work. La Curiosidad will be a short narrative film about a pigeon sport called colombicultura, made in the genre of magic realism. The story will follow an elderly man, a pigeon keeper who was recently widowed. He believes that the soul of his late wife is encapsulated in a female pigeon, and that if his colourful, male pigeon succeeds in the mating game of colombicultura she will be brought back to life. The film will include a dream-like sequence containing a puppet model of one of the painted pigeons.

Research images for a film work in progress. A collaboration with Alex Wight. We were invited to take part in a residency at AADK in Spain in April 2023 to develop the work. La Curiosidad will be a short narrative film about a pigeon sport called colombicultura, made in the genre of magic realism. The story will follow an elderly man, a pigeon keeper who was recently widowed. He believes that the soul of his late wife is encapsulated in a female pigeon, and that if his colourful, male pigeon succeeds in the mating game of colombicultura she will be brought back to life. The film will include a dream-like sequence containing a puppet model of one of the painted pigeons.

An oceanic fairytale that reflects on the act of dividing a body of water. Taking the Dutch storm surge barrier, the Ooosterscheldekering, as not only a physical but allegorical divide, the work follows the fate of a group of colourful sea slugs who become entangled with the story of Nehalennia, Goddess of the North Sea. Installation shot at LUNA Young Masters, Leeuwarden.

An oceanic fairytale that reflects on the act of dividing a body of water. Taking the Dutch storm surge barrier, the Ooosterscheldekering, as not only a physical but allegorical divide, the work follows the fate of a group of colourful sea slugs who become entangled with the story of Nehalennia, Goddess of the North Sea. Installation shot at LUNA Young Masters, Leeuwarden.

An oceanic fairytale that reflects on the act of dividing a body of water. Taking the Dutch storm surge barrier, the Ooosterscheldekering, as not only a physical but allegorical divide, the work follows the fate of a group of colourful sea slugs who become entangled with the story of Nehalennia, Goddess of the North Sea. Watch here: https://vimeo.com/566528901

An oceanic fairytale that reflects on the act of dividing a body of water. Taking the Dutch storm surge barrier, the Ooosterscheldekering, as not only a physical but allegorical divide, the work follows the fate of a group of colourful sea slugs who become entangled with the story of Nehalennia, Goddess of the North Sea. Installation shot at Graduation Show, KABK by Gert Jan van Rooij. Watch here: https://vimeo.com/566528901

Video still. An oceanic fairytale that reflects on the act of dividing a body of water. Taking the Dutch storm surge barrier, the Ooosterscheldekering, as not only a physical but allegorical divide, the work follows the fate of a group of colourful sea slugs who become entangled with the story of Nehalennia, Goddess of the North Sea. Watch here: https://vimeo.com/566528901

Video still. An oceanic fairytale that reflects on the act of dividing a body of water. Taking the Dutch storm surge barrier, the Ooosterscheldekering, as not only a physical but allegorical divide, the work follows the fate of a group of colourful sea slugs who become entangled with the story of Nehalennia, Goddess of the North Sea. Watch here: https://vimeo.com/566528901

A sea slug costume-cum-flag accompanying the two-channel video installation All was ocean! All was joy! (Or, How the Humans Broke the Ocean's Heart). Installation shot at Graduation Show, KABK.

A sea slug costume-cum-flag accompanying the two-channel video installation All was ocean! All was joy! (Or, How the Humans Broke the Ocean's Heart). Installation shot at Graduation Show, KABK.

Post-apocalyptic giant insects, singing mice, poetry by a cockroach, shapeshifting Tricksters, a parrot who speaks Portuguese, a dog who speaks Tagalog, rivers with legal personhood and a scarecrow who was painted into existence by a farmer. 'TOTO TO TOTORO: Can talking animals save the world?' is an ecological treatise that probes the importance of other-than-human storytelling to form more sustainable ways of planetary being. Toto, the trusty canine from The Wizard of Oz series, guides us through a series of encounters of the animal kind through interviews, poetry, letters and essays by select talking animals from literary and filmic worlds. Through these conversations the talking animals ask if they might be the unexpected key to rupturing the anthropocentric nature-culture divide. And if so, is this enough to save the world? Designer: Renata Miron Granados.

Post-apocalyptic giant insects, singing mice, poetry by a cockroach, shapeshifting Tricksters, a parrot who speaks Portuguese, a dog who speaks Tagalog, rivers with legal personhood and a scarecrow who was painted into existence by a farmer. 'TOTO TO TOTORO: Can talking animals save the world?' is an ecological treatise that probes the importance of other-than-human storytelling to form more sustainable ways of planetary being. Toto, the trusty canine from The Wizard of Oz series, guides us through a series of encounters of the animal kind through interviews, poetry, letters and essays by select talking animals from literary and filmic worlds. Through these conversations the talking animals ask if they might be the unexpected key to rupturing the anthropocentric nature-culture divide. And if so, is this enough to save the world? Designer: Renata Miron Granados.

Post-apocalyptic giant insects, singing mice, poetry by a cockroach, shapeshifting Tricksters, a parrot who speaks Portuguese, a dog who speaks Tagalog, rivers with legal personhood and a scarecrow who was painted into existence by a farmer. 'TOTO TO TOTORO: Can talking animals save the world?' is an ecological treatise that probes the importance of other-than-human storytelling to form more sustainable ways of planetary being. Toto, the trusty canine from The Wizard of Oz series, guides us through a series of encounters of the animal kind through interviews, poetry, letters and essays by select talking animals from literary and filmic worlds. Through these conversations the talking animals ask if they might be the unexpected key to rupturing the anthropocentric nature-culture divide. And if so, is this enough to save the world? Designer: Renata Miron Granados.

Post-apocalyptic giant insects, singing mice, poetry by a cockroach, shapeshifting Tricksters, a parrot who speaks Portuguese, a dog who speaks Tagalog, rivers with legal personhood and a scarecrow who was painted into existence by a farmer. 'TOTO TO TOTORO: Can talking animals save the world?' is an ecological treatise that probes the importance of other-than-human storytelling to form more sustainable ways of planetary being. Toto, the trusty canine from The Wizard of Oz series, guides us through a series of encounters of the animal kind through interviews, poetry, letters and essays by select talking animals from literary and filmic worlds. Through these conversations the talking animals ask if they might be the unexpected key to rupturing the anthropocentric nature-culture divide. And if so, is this enough to save the world? Designer: Renata Miron Granados.

Video still of performance. A song for the European tree frog, now extinct in the British wild. Originally commissioned by More Than Ponies as a performance at the pond where the final colony in the UK lived. The lyrics to ‘Bryd one Brere’ (said to be the oldest surviving secular love song in the English language) have been rewritten using astrological predictions for 1988, the year the last male was sighted, as an attempt to retroactively foresee the extinction. The work was then turned into a window vinyl display and accompanying performance for the Open Letters series by Page Not Found. See performance documentation vimeo for more info.

A song for the European tree frog, now extinct in the British wild. Originally commissioned by More Than Ponies as a performance at the pond where the final colony in the UK lived. The lyrics to ‘Bryd one Brere’ (said to be the oldest surviving secular love song in the English language) have been rewritten using astrological predictions for 1988, the year the last male was sighted, as an attempt to retroactively foresee the extinction. The work was then turned into a window vinyl display and accompanying performance for the Open Letters series by Page Not Found. See performance documentation vimeo for more info.

Illustration of singing frog as research image. A song for the European tree frog, now extinct in the British wild. Originally commissioned by More Than Ponies as a performance at the pond where the final colony in the UK lived. The lyrics to ‘Bryd one Brere’ (said to be the oldest surviving secular love song in the English language) have been rewritten using astrological predictions for 1988, the year the last male was sighted, as an attempt to retroactively foresee the extinction. The work was then turned into a window vinyl display and accompanying performance for the Open Letters series by Page Not Found. See performance documentation vimeo for more info.

A song for the European tree frog, now extinct in the British wild. Originally commissioned by More Than Ponies as a performance at the pond where the final colony in the UK lived. The lyrics to ‘Bryd one Brere’ (said to be the oldest surviving secular love song in the English language) have been rewritten using astrological predictions for 1988, the year the last male was sighted, as an attempt to retroactively foresee the extinction. The work was then turned into a window vinyl display and accompanying performance for the Open Letters series by Page Not Found. See performance documentation vimeo for more info.

Video still. An ancient ceramic woman, created to be a mediator between other-than-human worlds, guides us through tales she has heard from a mismatched flock of birds she lives with in a museum. Watch at https://vimeo.com/510163100/1479a8e6f4

Video still. An ancient ceramic woman, created to be a mediator between other-than-human worlds, guides us through tales she has heard from a mismatched flock of birds she lives with in a museum. Watch at https://vimeo.com/510163100/1479a8e6f4

Video still. An ancient ceramic woman, created to be a mediator between other-than-human worlds, guides us through tales she has heard from a mismatched flock of birds she lives with in a museum. Watch at https://vimeo.com/510163100/1479a8e6f4

Once upon a time, the world grew roots and hovered in suspended animation. When a mysterious Ogham Stone, and an omniscient talking log offer an insight into the true cause of the Covid-19 pandemic, it becomes clear that a solution to the crisis must come with sacrifice. A record of some of the most devastating and downright bizarre epidemics throughout history, ‘First it sleeps, second it creeps, third it leaps’ serves as a reminder of the fragility of both human existence, and belief. Watch at https://vimeo.com/431038664/8ab1c64160

Once upon a time, the world grew roots and hovered in suspended animation. When a mysterious Ogham Stone, and an omniscient talking log offer an insight into the true cause of the Covid-19 pandemic, it becomes clear that a solution to the crisis must come with sacrifice. A record of some of the most devastating and downright bizarre epidemics throughout history, ‘First it sleeps, second it creeps, third it leaps’ serves as a reminder of the fragility of both human existence, and belief. Watch at https://vimeo.com/431038664/8ab1c64160

Video still. Once upon a time, the world grew roots and hovered in suspended animation. When a mysterious Ogham Stone, and an omniscient talking log offer an insight into the true cause of the Covid-19 pandemic, it becomes clear that a solution to the crisis must come with sacrifice. A record of some of the most devastating and downright bizarre epidemics throughout history, ‘First it sleeps, second it creeps, third it leaps’ serves as a reminder of the fragility of both human existence, and belief. Watch at https://vimeo.com/431038664/8ab1c64160

Video still. Once upon a time, the world grew roots and hovered in suspended animation. When a mysterious Ogham Stone, and an omniscient talking log offer an insight into the true cause of the Covid-19 pandemic, it becomes clear that a solution to the crisis must come with sacrifice. A record of some of the most devastating and downright bizarre epidemics throughout history, ‘First it sleeps, second it creeps, third it leaps’ serves as a reminder of the fragility of both human existence, and belief. Watch at https://vimeo.com/431038664/8ab1c64160

Video still. Once upon a time, the world grew roots and hovered in suspended animation. When a mysterious Ogham Stone, and an omniscient talking log offer an insight into the true cause of the Covid-19 pandemic, it becomes clear that a solution to the crisis must come with sacrifice. A record of some of the most devastating and downright bizarre epidemics throughout history, ‘First it sleeps, second it creeps, third it leaps’ serves as a reminder of the fragility of both human existence, and belief. Watch at https://vimeo.com/431038664/8ab1c64160

Video still. Once upon a time, the world grew roots and hovered in suspended animation. When a mysterious Ogham Stone, and an omniscient talking log offer an insight into the true cause of the Covid-19 pandemic, it becomes clear that a solution to the crisis must come with sacrifice. A record of some of the most devastating and downright bizarre epidemics throughout history, ‘First it sleeps, second it creeps, third it leaps’ serves as a reminder of the fragility of both human existence, and belief. Watch at https://vimeo.com/431038664/8ab1c64160