WHAT IS THE LANDSCAPE YOU’RE WORKING IN?

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The setting of the defensio exhibition Conceptual Landscapes: Readership in the Expanded Field by Jeroen Peeters hosts a programme of lectures, performances and video essays at De Kooi, PXL MAD, Hasselt, Belgium. In his 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, Vlad Ionescu, Kate Briggs, Sher Doruff, Nikolaus Gansterer, Stefanie Wenner and Nadia Sels 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 reader with following contributions. 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.

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