What is the landscape 0325

What is the landscape you’re working in?
Research presentation and publication, 2025

In this exhibition, the seven chapters of Jeroen Peeters’ PhD in the arts, Conceptual Landscapes: Readership in the Expanded Field, came alive as seven ‘tables’. These alternative manifestations evoked the scope of his experimental writing practice, taking on the form of research display, reading corner, or the score of a lecture-performance. A worktable with stuff, epigraphs on a wall, stray papers found in library books, or a fermented publication evoking a pickled community: they’re each invitations to engage with an expanded sense of readership.
A newspaper serves both as an introduction to the PhD and as a visitor’s guide: What is the landscape you’re working in?
Published by Hasselt University and PXL-MAD School of Arts, Hasselt
First edition, March 2025
8 pages, 28 x 38 cm, folded
Graphic design by Thomas Van Herck
The setting of the exhibition hosted a programme of lectures, performances and video essays on 27 March 2025. 
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?
The jury members of the PhD 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. With contributions by Kate Briggs, Sher Doruff, Nikolaus Gansterer, Vlad Ionescu, Nadia Sels and Stefanie Wenner.
Jeroen Peeters concluded 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.
25-28 March 2025 at PXL-MAD School of Arts, Hasselt.
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