Diederik Peeters and his long-time acolyte Henri Emmanuel Doublier will meet again for this residency in Buda in February 2022 for a first phase of research on Diederik’s new creation (2025). Very old magic books should be carefully opened and new people should be met on the theme of the birth of psychiatry.

Diederik Peeters (BE)

Diederik Peeters is a visual artist who got lost in the performing arts. In addition to many collaborations with fellow artists, Peeters has also concocted several creations of his own, such as Chuck Norris doesn’t sleep, he waits (2007), Red Herring (2011) or Apparitions (2019). Peeters’ work persistently questions the notion of a solid and objective reality, piling up absurdities and contradictions that reveal a universe in which everything is constantly transforming and nothing ever turns out what it seems to be. Along with Kate McIntosh and Hans Bryssinck he is a founding member of SPIN, a support and reflection platform based in Brussels.