Giek
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tephanie Smit – artistically known as Giek, founder of Reality Cult – is a mystic visionary, multidisciplinary artist, past life (Akashic records) reader, and reincarnation researcher working at the intersection of myth, performance, esotericism, and experimental research.
Her practice explores soul continuity, archetypal memory, and the evolution of consciousness, rooted in years of personal soul research and ongoing investigations into cultural and spiritual patterning.
Her artistic cosmology bridges lifetimes and epochs, weaving together experimental theater, ritual performance, sacred storytelling, experimental classical composition, digital media, and handcrafted zero-waste costume. Using Hermetic tools such as astrology and tarot, alongside AI-assisted gathering of historical data, symbolic pattern analysis, and archival research, she develops frameworks to explore reincarnation as a layered, multidimensional identity structure.
Much of her work operates as living portals: performances that open ritual space for remembrance, installations that reveal hidden codes in art history, and visual transmissions that transmit symbolic language across audiences. Her performances are living doorways into forgotten sacred spaces, echoes of hidden churches where stained glass and towering arches whisper universal secrets. Through the fusion of costume, sound, poetry, improvisation, scenography, and video, she creates immersive environments that play with time, memory, and spiritual initiation.
Soul Continuity: The Architecture of Identity
Throughout her artistic and research practice, she traces how soul imprints reveal themselves across lifetimes; surfacing as instinct, creativity, attraction, fear, talent, and destiny.
Her work investigates how these echoes form the invisible architecture of identity, shaping the emotional and intuitive patterns that guide a life.
Across hundreds of readings, intuitive research, and symbolic analysis, she studies how recurring archetypes, affinities, and life-themes offer evidence of deeper continuity beneath the personality. These patterns appear in creative impulses, relational dynamics, natural talents, and the seemingly irrational callings that pull individuals toward particular places, people, or eras.
Her approach understands the soul as a multidimensional continuum, one that carries memory forward in subtle, embodied ways. Through this lens, reincarnation becomes not only a metaphysical concept but a way of mapping how consciousness evolves, heals, and expresses itself across time.
Her work has been presented internationally at institutions such as Harvard Divinity School’s Spirituality & the Arts Conference (2025), Occulture Conference Berlin (2023–2025), the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam, Design Museum Den Bosch, Museum Lakenhal Leiden, Dutch Design Week Eindhoven, Bauhaus Berlin, Arty Amsterdam, and others.
In 2025 she launched IWasJimMorrison.com, an ongoing research project and installation investigating collective past-life identity, archetypal resonance, and digital myth-making through astrology, cultural symbolism, and AI-assisted research tools.
Decoding the Journey of the Soul - Writing & Lectures
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riting, lectures, and symbolic research exploring reincarnation, mythic patterning, and the multidimensional nature of consciousness.
She writes regularly for Brainz Magazine, and more of her research on reincarnation and symbolic consciousness will appear in New Dawn Magazine and Bloom Magazine (2026–2027). Her work has been recognized in the BRAINZ 500 Global Awards 2025.
Her interdisciplinary lecture series, “Decoding the Past,” developed during the Aetheria Residency in Crete, premiered at Occulture Festival Berlin in 2025 and continues to evolve as an experimental fusion of reincarnation studies, mythic analysis, and performative research.
Through ritual performance, symbolic storytelling, and experimental research, she supports communities navigating awakening, karmic cycles, and identity expansion in the Aquarian age. Her work activates remembrance: a return to the deeper, multidimensional nature of the soul.
Disclaimer: This work is offered as spiritual and artistic exploration, not as medical, psychological, or scientific fact.
Selected Recent Works
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cross-disciplinary body of performances, installations, and research projects exploring soul memory, ritual, and myth across contemporary art spaces.
2026 · Lineage, Continuity, and Myth-Making at a Cultural Threshold — Presentation / talk
2025 · Decoding the Past — Interdisciplinary Lecture Series
2025–ongoing · IWasJimMorrison.com — Research Project & Installation
2019–ongoing · Independent Reincarnation Research — Symbolic, intuitive & historical investigation
2024–ongoing · A Soul’s Journey — Multidisciplinary Performance & Installation
2023 · 5th Dimension and Beyond — Performance Collaboration with Frederique Jonker
2022–2023 · A New World + Transcending Time and Space — Painting, Installation & Divination
2021–2023 · KYBALION the Musical — Esoteric Performance Cycle
2022–ongoing · GIEKONSTRUCT — Zero-Waste Costume & Installation Practice
2021–ongoing · Improvisations
2020–2025 · Spread My Wings — Audio-Visual Project
2020 · LEF Global Lab — Immersive ‘Inner Climate’ Video Performance at the Dutch Infrastru cture and Watermanagement
2019–2023 · OWN REALITY — Ritual Pop Performance
2019–2021 · Stone Orgy — Ritual Performance & EP collaboration with Jasper Griepink
2018–2019 · Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw — Composition & Performance
International Recognition
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er work has received growing international recognition through grants, residencies, and publications that support and amplify her interdisciplinary, metaphysical practice.
GRANTS, PRIZES & SELECTIONS
10/2025 · Station Noord — Finalist
01/2024 · Rijksakademie — Shortlisted (Final Round)
03/2024 · Stimuleringsfonds Talentontwikkeling — Scout Night (Giekonstruct)
04/2022 · Kulturstiftung Sachsen — Gastspielförderung
05/2021 · SENA — Music Production (Spread My Wings)
06/2020 · Fonds Podiumkunsten — Work Contribution
10/2018 · NTS WIP (London, UK) – Longlisted for experimental music talent programme
2015 · VSB Fonds — Crowdfunding Support
RESIDENCIES
06/2025 · Aetheria Institute, Crete — Black Sky Society Residency
05/2024 · Maakweken Delft — Costume/Scenography
06/2023 · Séance Volda (Norway) — Ritual voice & visual composition
05/2019 · Choreographic Coding Lab — Movement, tech & prototyping
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
Upcoming 2026–2027: New Dawn Magazine, Bloom Magazine
2025: Brainz Magazine — multiple articles
2020: Threshold Magazine, Couvre x Chefs, Redefine
2017–ongoing: Interviews (Brainz, Brabants Dagblad, Gay.nl, The Great Game Podcast)