Jeroen Peeters. Dramaturgies of (not) writing | Collegium Artist Talk

Jeroen Peeters. Dramaturgies of (not) writing
Collegium Artist Talk

June 17, 2026, 19:00
Teatre/ Theatres
21 Schitu Măgureanu St., Bucharest

Jeroen Peeters’ COLLEGIUM workshop features a public event in connection with the theme of this year’s masterclass: writing as artistic practice.

How do you set up conditions for the work to come about? How do you create a shared ground for exploring the unfamiliar in pursuit of making sense? These questions are at the heart of dance and performance dramaturgy as an experimental, collaborative practice and a material form of thinking. What if we were to apply these ideas to the practice of writing? In this artist talk, Jeroen Peeters will discuss his writerly poetics as it came about in dialogue with dance and performance. This includes documenting the ‘languages of making’, garden writing, writing along, and exploring the arts of not writing.

After the talk, there will be a pop-up bookshelf with publications of Jeroen Peeters and Varamo Press.

Jeroen Peeters (BE, 1976) is an essayist, dramaturg and performer based in Brussels, working across the media of writing, performance and publication. He writes about art and matters such as ecologies of attention, embodied knowledge, material literacy, readership, commoning and sustainable development.

Peeters has published widely on contemporary dance and performance, art theory and philosophy, including a book on spectatorship in contemporary dance, Through the Back: Situating Vision between Moving Bodies (2014). Interested in documenting the ‘languages of making’, Peeters set up several dialogical projects with artists in the field of contemporary dance, which resulted for instance in a book in collaboration with Meg Stuart, Are we here yet? (2010). Other publications include the artist’s book We don’t know what free jazz is (2015), the essay Reseeding the library, gleaning readership (2018), a series of essays on Mette Edvardsen’s work, Something Some things Something else (2019), the artist’s book Bookmarks of sorts (2021), and the handbook And then it got legs: Notes on dance dramaturgy (2022). In 2025 he obtained a PhD in Art at Hasselt University with research on Conceptual Landscapes: Readership in the Expanded Field.

Recent performance works include The elusive eloquence of dozing off (2018) and A Table (2024). Peeters regularly engages in artistic collaborations with among others Mette Edvardsen, Jack Hauser, Sabina Holzer, Sara Manente, Martin Nachbar, Meg Stuart, David Weber-Krebs and Jozef Wouters. Together with Mette Edvardsen he runs the publishing house Varamo Press. www.jeroenpeeters.work / www.varamopress.org

Collegium is an annual project of the Institute of the Present, conceived by Ștefania Ferchedău. The 2026 edition is organised in the frame of the project “Collegium. Timelines for Future”. Cultural project co-funded by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. Partner: Teatre/Theatres. Visuals: Toma Ștefănescu, inspired by Varamo Press’ gestures series.

The project does not necessarily represent the standpoint of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN cannot be held liable for the content of the project or the manner in which the outcomes of the project may be used. These shall devolve entirely on the beneficiary of the financing.