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Public programme
On May 2nd-3rd, for one night only, Jester becomes the Jester Campsite - a host to 35 sleepers in tents or campervans, whatever is your fancy. The curators and artists of Currents 12: Camping Out invite you to join them in experiencing what camping can mean in the context of making and presenting art. You are invited to pitch your tent on Jester’s grounds and join workshops with Liselore Bulcke and Claire Sillekens, exhibition tours, and enjoy home-cooked chili sin carne, and roasted marshmallows and bread at a campfire. The exhibition will be open until 23:00, offering you the rare opportunity to see the works by night.
Camping spots are limited, and include dinner, coffee and pastries. Please fill in this form as soon as you can, as that helps us organise your stay, and latest by 20 April 2026.
Rather sleep at home? You can also join the day activities and dinner without staying over. Book your meal in advance here [same link to google form].
Programme
Saturday, 2 May
13:30 Walk-in. You can set up your tent between 13:30-18:00
14:00 Introduction by Maia Kenney and Berber Meindertsma
14:15 ‘Forest-bathing’ and drawing workshop with Liselore Bulcke
Learn how to find beauty in the chaos, by joining artist Liselore Bulcke on a walk through the areas surrounding Jester, where forests and nature reserves come into close contact with industrial waste and distribution infrastructure. Based on her graduation project, where she developed techniques of seeing the complex patterns and systems in the Munsterbos, a forest not too far from Genk, Liselore will guide you through this unique landscape and see aspects in the landscape which otherwise would go unnoticed.
16:00 Workshop by Claire Sillekens and Karabo Maisela
Claire’s graduation work is expansive and immersive - it’s a theatre play about the world in crisis that is waiting to be discovered. Through four unexpected characters, for whom she developed costumes, and the props and set pieces that flesh them out, Claire explores how people can live and work together in an extremely unequal society. Her workshop, developed together with director Karabo Maisela, will facilitate improvisation theatre scenes with the audience, activating the characters, their words, actions, and feelings. Claire’s costumes and monologues that are on display in Jester will be worn by audience members who will explore improvisation techniques and together create new scenarios.
18:00 Aperitif and snacks + tour of the exhibition by curators Maia Kenney and Berber Meindertsma
19:00 Chili sin carne dinner (vegan) with cornbread (vegetarian)
20:00 Exhibition visits in the evening
21:00 Firepit with marshmallows and bread on a stick
23:00 Sleep time, exhibition closes
Sunday, 3 May
10:00 Coffee, tea and breakfast pastries
11:00 DIY print-making workshop with Liselore Bulcke
12:00 Pack up camp
Bios
Karabo Maisela is a South African writer, director, curator, and activist who has worked across theatre, film, and poetry. She studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and Radboud University. Her debut stage play I Am Because We Are won Best Script at the 2015 FEDA Festival. She directed Home, a documentary exploring themes of belonging and diaspora, and co-wrote the award-winning film Umlindelo. Karabo has recently begun building a community-based creative collective called O’guluva, redesigning the creative economy for the South African diaspora.
Taught as a workshop-based designer at Maastricht Institute of Arts, Claire Sillikens’ strength lies in the usage of many different techniques, materials and making them work together. Her work mainly takes the shape of costumes, attributes and decor-pieces. This aligns with her aim to direct herself more towards the field of theatre, as the temporal nature and the need to collaborate attracts her. Aside from this, Claire works as a gardener and lives, cooks and cares in one of the oldest activist buildings in Nijmegen.
Liselore Bulcke is an artist based in Belgium. After graduating with an MFA from LUCA School of Arts Ghent (2025), she now seeks to further explore and develop her love for the intricate by studying Conservation-Restoration at the University of Antwerp. Having grown up in the city, she turns to nature for a breath of fresh air. With her drypoint etchings, a technique which requires a lot of time, attention and precision, Liselore forces herself to study and process the intricate scenes of forest structures and systems. She provides room for the anonymous places of the forest, letting them take up the entire frame, and giving them the attention and autonomy they deserve. She invites others to come a little closer and to rediscover their own connection to the brush, tangled branches and roots at our feet.
Practical in a nutshell
What to bring:
A tent, campervan or car
Your favorite camping equipment for sleeping
Camping chairs or stools
Tetrapaks (drink cartons) for the print-making workshop
Cost:
€25pp - If you want to camp with us (includes workshops, dinner and light breakfast)
€10pp - If you only want to do day activities and stay for dinner
Facilities:
There are 5 toilets on the premises of Jester including a wheelchair-accessible toilet. There is no shower available because this is only a one-night event.
Please be packed up by 13:30 on May 3 - and make sure to leave no trace!
