ATTENTION: for obvious reasons this performance has been canceled.
Diederik Peeters is a visual artist who has accidentally wandered into the performing arts. He creates performances, writes texts and designs installations and videos. Because Peeters is a proud sufferer from a pathological preference for confusion, his work is a stubborn accumulation of impossible contradictions and absurd consistencies.
practical info
performance in English, run time: app 70 minutes
by
Diederik Peeters
actor
Jonas Chéreau
light
Henri-Emmanuel Doublier
music and sound
Lieven Dousselaere
design
Christoph Hefti
producers
Marion Le Guerroué
associated producers
SPIN, L’Amicale
with support from
the Flemish Community
co-producers
nona arts centre, BUDA arts centre, Kunstencentrum Vooruit, Schauspiel Leipzig (Leipzig/DE), Centre Pompidou (Paris/FR), Salle Ropartz (Rennes/FR)
“A delirious performer who ‘chases ghosts’”
- Télérama
In Apparitions, he investigates what exactly the deal is with life after death. Disguised as a spiritualist, he infiltrates the end of the nineteenth century, where he mixes with prominent scientists. This enables him to investigate the mysteries surrounding popular inventions of the time. He simultaneously catapults himself forward in time to the end of the twenty-first century, to find out which technological developments are used to resurrect the dead and what hardware or software is used to give ghosts and phantoms access to bodies again.
Navigating between history and science fiction, belief and scepticism, Apparitions is an expedition down subterranean tunnels that connect science to magic and technology to horror.
