Anomalies

3 live magazine articles, 2023

In as many episodes of the monthly live magazine ‘Mosaïque des Lexiques’ (Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris), Peeters presented 3 short performances. Each one of them related to a specific element in the history of psychiatry.

In the first performance he mused – while singing – on the history and meaning of the word 'Confabulations', a term coined in 1901 by German neurologist Carl Wernicke.

In the second one he listed a number of neuropsychiatric disorders – again while singing. He also attempted to understand why these ‘anomalies of the brain’ fascinate and disturb.

No singing in the third performance. In a short audio piece, Peeters delved deep into personal childhood memories in order to remember his first encounters with alterity.

Three live magazine articles, commissioned by Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, conceived and performed by Diederik Peeters.