Public Defence Doctoral Thesis: Jeroen Peeters

Thursday March 27th 2025 | 14h00 - 18h00 | De Kooi, PXL MAD, Hasselt

Symposium: 'What is the landscape you're working in?'

On Thursday 27 March, the setting of the exhibition hosts a programme of lectures, performances and video essays.

In the lecture Bandergewilden, Jeroen Peeters discusses the reading of practices. How do artists or writers read their own work as it emerges in the studio when things are in constant flux and not yet public? How can one recognize, acknowledge, document, publish those variegated modes of attention?

What is the landscape you’re working in? In response to this question, the jury members will introduce an aspect of their work and explore questions of experimental writing, translation, anamnesis, fabulation, notation and other practices that expand our sense of readership. 

• Vlad Ionescu, Anamnesis of Reading (Practices and Places)
• Kate Briggs, On book spaces, page spaces, fictional spaces, and living spaces
• Sher Doruff, Stories Telling
• Nikolaus Gansterer, Contingent Agencies: Inquiring into the Emergence of Atmospheres
• Stefanie Wenner, Sottobosco
• Nadia Sels, Desk Horse

Jeroen Peeters will conclude the afternoon with A Table, a performance-reading of Francis Ponge’s La table (1967-73), the last of his notebook works, dedicated to the table that was his immediate work environment.

Friday March 28th 2025 | 15h00 - 19h00 | Refugiehuis, Hasselt

Public Defence Doctoral Thesis Jeroen Peeters

Jeroen Peeters has the pleasure to invite you to the public defence of his doctoral thesis on 28 March 2025: Conceptual Landscapes: Readership in the Expanded Field.

Artistic research, collaboration and creation require a specific environment, each time adapted to a particular question or guiding image. It is a matter of crafting conditions and staging the workspace, of articulating process so it may become a conscious method, of reading the emerging work. In his PhD in the arts, Conceptual Landscapes: Readership in the Expanded Field, Jeroen Peeters explores such a dramaturgical approach to artistic methods and looks into the modes of attention it affords.

‘Conceptual landscapes’ seek to prepare the ground for sense-making and unfolding guiding images into a shared world. Which specific ways of doing, speaking, imagining arise in there? Or, if we’d look at a creative process as an ‘ecology of attention’, then how do we inhabit it? Documenting these practices opens up an expanded sense of readership that acknowledges corporeal and material forms of thinking.

To speak from practice, in his dissertation Jeroen Peeters embraces hybrid forms of experimental writing, in particular essay, artist’s book and lecture-performance.

• Promoter: Prof. Dr. Vlad Ionescu
• Co-Promoter: Prof. Dr. Nadia Sels

Tuesday March 25th - 28th 2025 | 10h00 - 18h00 | De Kooi, PXL MAD, Hasselt

Visit The Expo

• March 25th - 28th, 10h00 - 18h00
• De Kooi, PXL MAD School of Arts, Elfde Liniestraat 25, 3500 Hasselt

Date and locations:

• Thursday March 27th 2025: Symposium @ PXL MAD
• Friday March 28th: Defence @ Refugiehuis
• Tuesday March 25th - Friday March 28th: Expo @ PXL MAD

• PXL MAD, Elfde Liniestraat 25, 3500 Hasselt
• Refugiehuis, Maastrichterstraat 100, 3500 Hasselt
  
  

Registration

You can register for this symposium and/or the PhD defence of Jeroen Peeters via this Google Form.

Please fill in this form before March 24th 2024.