Conceptual Landscapes: Readership in the Expanded Field

Abstract

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. The dissertation consists of six individual volumes (held in an A4-size cardboard box) and one performance work.