Diederik Peeters

° lives and works in Brussels

Diederik Peeters has a Master in Visual Arts (KASK, Ghent, 1996). He has performed for various artists (Guy Cassiers, Frank Theys, Alain Platel, Jan Fabre, Erna Omarsdottir, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Superamas...), and advised several colleagues in their working processes (Lies Pauwels, Poni, Kate McIntosh...). Meanwhile he produced a series of performances and installations himself. He is also a founding member of SPASM, the performance trio that habitually performs in museums and galleries, hidden in the darkened enclosure of closets, cupboards, ceilings and the like.

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Projects

Swords & Sandals

2011

Roch Baumert, Alix Eynaudi & Diederik Peeters will dress up as Romans, lay down on a bench, and eat and drink as much as they can, while addressing the topics of the day. Engineering a time machine of a cruel kind, they invite you to pay tribute to both classical antiquity and to the worst, or best, Roman epic films from the sixties. There...

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Zanahoria

2010

A tale about the quest for a giant carrot and an imaginary three-headed monster. ‘Zanahoria’ is a lecture about the proverbial carrot one holds in front of a donkey in order to make it move. For the follow-up of their cult-hit ‘Chuck Norris doesn’t sleep, he waits…’ (2007), Bryssinck & Peeters (at that time still with Danai Anesiadou) went...

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Thriller

2009

Diederik Peeters' phantasmagoria 'Thriller...' plays with the solidity of the way we look at things. Peeters marvels at the delicacy of our attempts to knit together our impressions, and at how absurd it is that we manage to perform one act after the other without losing a basic sense of coherence. 'Thriller...' is a wordless and slightly sinister...

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Chuck Norris doens't sleep, he waits...

2007

Where have the discrete charms of the bourgeoisie gone? In their enigmatically titled ensemble piece "Chuck Norris Doesn't Sleep, He Waits", Danai Anesiadou, Hans Bryssinck and Diederik Peeters take turns performing the cinematic chores of decadence, basing their taut, absurdist skits on filmic representation of ennui-stricken jet set life. A...

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Los Viernes

2003

Los Viernes was scripted as one full day of urban experiences throughout Mexico-City; driving around, meeting people, giving lectures in universities, doing guided museum tours etc. On Friday the 21st Bryssinck & Peeters acted out the script and turned it into a performative experience. Exactly one week later, on Friday the 28th they tried to...

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