In this lecture-performance, we share fragments of the research we’ve been collecting over the past two years.

Firmly convinced that a new conception of mental health and madness can change our understanding of reality, Peeters slips into the shoes of an amateur psychiatrist, who turns out to be an illusionist. As our host gets lost in the labyrinth of his own narratives, diagnoses, and magic tricks, the boundary between reality and perception begins to blur. Even the identity of the show itself seems fluid and impossible to define. What begins as a university lecture on neuropsychiatry transforms into a concert or morphs into a visual delirium.

Where does reality end and imagination begin? At what point is our perception considered pathological? What criteria determine what we consider normal in our experience of reality, how have these criteria developed throughout history, and can we reinvent them to imagine a neurodivergent future?