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L-0-U (2022) | EP release with 5 tracks composed, produced, mixed and performed by Malu Peeters (Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland)
How can the monstrous sound obscure yet full of love? What is the soundtrack of uncanny creatures? And if the post-human speaks what is their voice like? L-0-U...
blind men (2022) | multichannel audiovisual installation with VIBEKE MASCINI as part of The World Is A Verb at RADIUS CCA, Delft (Netherlands)
“Blind Men is a video and sound composition that provides an intimate glimpse into a sterile necropsy room—an inquest room for scientific research—in which a beach...
marraq/mud (2022) | multichannel audiovisual installation i.c.w. JASPER COPPES for CHAPTER 5IVE at HET HEM, Zaandam (Netherlands)
Marraq is the Greenlandic word for the mud that due to the melting ice flows through the landscape in large amounts. For five years, filmmaker Jasper Coppes...
[Posthuman Wombs] by Anan Fries & Malu Peeters (2021) | spatial sound & VR installation at IDFA 2021 (Netherlands/Germany/Switzerland)
When artist Anan Fries was pregnant, they didn’t feel at all like the stereotypical image of the expectant parent—a woman with hands clasped over her belly, her fac...
Virtual Wombs by Anan Fries & Malu Peeters (2021) | VR & live performance co-produced by HAU (Germany), Kaserne Basel (Switzerland)
"We need to learn to think of the anomalous, the monstrously different not as a sign of pejoration but as the unfolding of virtual possibilities that point to...
MOLIMO O MOCHA - NEW GOD (2021) / video art installation by LEMOHANG JEREMIAH MOSESE (Lesotho/Germany)
The 21st century era is a period of radical cultural overhaul. Seen in the notable shifts catalysing significant social patterns emerging in the present. One...
Bodies of Negroes. I Will Sculpture God, Grim and Benevolent (2021) | a multi-screen installation by LEMOHANG JEREMIAH MOSESE (Lesotho/Germany)
"I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life." Ezekiel...
THE HOST (2020) | digital essay and web game with ANAN FRIES in an online residency at DGTL FMNSM (Germany/Netherlands)
THE HOST is a performative video installation, a digital body essay, a trip into the belly of the pregnant monster. Based on a docu-fictional journal this work...
calling for times to come (2019) | multi-channel audio work with JASPER COPPES for ITGWO 2019 (Netherlands)
Calling For Times To Come is a collaboration between the artists and various other living and non-living entities - sled dogs, ravens, wind - they have met...
1000 serpentinen angst (2020) | reading performance with Banafshe Hourmazdi, Minh Duc Pham & Olivia Wenzel (Germany)
“I have more privileges than anyone in my family has ever had. And still I’m screwed. I’m hated by more people than my grandmother can imagine. On the day of the Bun...
aasivissuit (2020) | experimental documentary with JASPER COPPES (Greenland/Netherlands)
The film follows two park rangers at work and on expeditions through the sunlit grasslands of West Greenland. As they talk, they exchange new and old knowledge of...
under pressure (2020) | interactive gameshow with HENRIKE IGLESIAS (Germany/Switzerland)
Henrike Iglesias is Under Pressure. In a brilliant, interactive gameshow, the collective devotes itself to the pressure to perform, which is omnipresent in our...
alles is rond (2019) | multi-channel audiovisual installation with MADELON HOOYKAAS & LOUIS ANDRIESSEN (Netherlands)
Louis Andriessen and Madelon Hooykaas are artists of international repute. All is Round was made in the city where both artists grew up, and premiered during the...
ansage ende (2019) | short experimental film with SJOERD LEIJTEN & STIJN VERHOEFF (Netherlands)
This experimental short film is an artistic reflection on being engaged with the world. Combining fiction and documentary, music and text, this hybrid film calls...
homecoming (2020) | a live theatre game with MACHINA EX (Germany/Switzerland)
It has become autumn in the long year of the pandemic. A young woman returns to her home village because she can no longer afford the rent in the big city. An...
your brain has no smell (2017/2019) | multi-channel audio work with ERICA VAN LOON (Netherlands)
Your Brain Has No Smell is a monologue by a professor in anatomy. While she is dissecting brains she speaks in detail about the different colours, the textures and...
shatter (2019) | interactive hear-play parcours with OLIVIA WENZEL (Germany)
Das Kind aus der Abrissbirne, die freundliche Erzeuger-maschine, Achmed Erdnuss & Raphael Haloumi, Slick P oder 3 apathische Kraken – die Protagonist*innen sind e...
fressen (2019) | cooking show with HENRIKE IGLESIAS (Germany/Switzerland)
“Men” eat steaks. They drink beer. They belch. They don’t use serviettes. They could “eat a horse”. They burn more energy. “Women,” on the other hand – “women” eat e...
oh my (2018) | theatre performance with HENRIKE IGLESIAS (Germany/Switzerland)
I'm feelin' myself, I'm feelin’ myself I'm feelin' my, feelin’ myself - Nicki Minaj & Beyoncé Welcome to the feminist porno film set! After Henrike Igle...
de toekomst ligt in zee (2016) | 3-channel sound work with STIJN VERHOEFF en SJOERD LEIJTEN
In the fall of 2016 De Toekomst Ligt in Zee premiered at Galerie van Gelder in Amsterdam as a three channel sound installation. Artist and writer Stijn Verhoeff was...
flow country (2016) | 16mm film-project with JASPER COPPES (Scotland/Netherlands)
Like a visual fieldwork notebook, the fragmented scenes of a 16mm film pose a question: what does it mean to survey the layers of past and present in a desolate...
jacob de zoet (2018) | 11-episode radio fiction series based on David Mitchell's novel for NPO Radio 1 (Netherlands)
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is an historical novel (2010) by David Mitchell, set during the Dutch trading concession with Japan in the late 18th century,...
disaster (2018) | theatrical game with MACHINA EX (Germany)
Eigentlich ist alles wie immer: Wie auch in früheren Adventures des Berliner Game-Theater-Kollektivs machina eX erkunden die Spieler*innen interaktive Räume, lösen R...
sound boards (2014) | interactive sound installation for SCHWEITZER and INTERSTORE DESIGN (Italy)
On request of renown interior design company Schweitzer and Swiss based visual artist Jacqueline Rommerts, I co-created an interactive sound installation of 'sound...
wir müssen reden (2017) | theatre performance with ANNA FRIES & LAURA NAUMANN (Germany)
Was war zuerst da, die Gesellschaft oder die Familie? Findet sich das Große wirklich im Kleinen wieder? Und das Kleine im Großen? Wie wird Demokratie gemacht? Was i...
bastion 2492 (2017) | site-specific game theatre with machina eX (Switzerland)
Le monde au dehors est hostile. Seul le retrait dans le bastion garantit la sécurité. Depuis bien des générations, la communauté vit retranchée dans la forteresse, o...
GRRRRRL (2016) | theatre performance with HENRIKE IGLESIAS (Germany/Switzerland)
If anything can save us in this fraught and dazzling future, it is the rage of women and girls, of queers and freaks and sinners. (Laurie Penny) Henrike Iglesias...
lila (2018) | a radio drama with IONA DANIEL for VPRO Nooit Meer Slapen (Netherlands)
In Lila we follow three main characters who are incapable of getting closer to each other even though they share the wish to accomplish success in life and as a...
out of darkness (2014) | short experimental film by JASPER COPPES and STIJN VERHOEFF (Netherlands)
A camera wonders around a shed. This mysterious environment seems to be caught in a loop. Or is it? Out of Darkness is a short film in which seeing and hearing...
my body is the field for tomorrow's battles (2016) | dance performance by ROSE BEERMANN (Germany)
Angesichts des Weltgeschehens erscheint es paradox, dass sich ein Rückzug auf und in den Körper vollzieht. Als letztes Gebiet, das noch beherrschbar scheint, wird d...
de dubbelganger (2014) | radio documentary for VPRO WOORD.NL (Belgium/Netherlands)
(EN) This documentary tells the true story about Dave H. and Dave H. Two men born the same day, the same year, in the same city with the same first and last...
one in one : budapest (2013) | theatre and documentary project with CHILDREN OF DOLLAR DADDY (Hungary)
Would we be happier somewhere else? ONE IN ONE is a project around the topic of national identity and identity change. A young couple stays in a foreign...
nowheres (2012) | theatrical sound installation with LE NU PERDU (Netherlands)
To begin with | A life | time | finished between | the space of | two frames | The dark line where the | eye persists in seeing | something that was never there |...
house of metatron (2012) | site-specific theatre installation with MACHINA EX (Germany)
In the borderlands between kitsch and decay, machina eX is staging an apocryphal universe that ought to stay concealed, but that gets revealed time and again. We’re ...
posten (2012) | radio documentary for VPRO PLOTS (Netherlands)
"Not to achieve anything at all, that is something beautiful." Posten is a radio documentary about a 12-year-old boy who understands the world as a...
making room (2011/2012) | sound and kinetic light installation with LE NU PERDU (Netherlands)
Making Room | Architecture of Silence is an interactive installation composed from light, sound and spatial composition, in which we compose a magic-realistic...
ze is aan het rennen (2011) | short radio play for VPRO (Netherlands)
Very short stories from daily life: true radio fairytales that briefly surprise you, touch you, disturb you. CREDITS Story, composition & sound design Malu...
discovering pasolini (2011) | theatre performance with LA MAMA (Italy)
Discovering Pasolini is a project based on the life and talents of Pier Paolo Pasolini, a popular and important writer, poet, journalist, playwright, screenwriter,...
fernweh | LE NU PERDU (2009)
On invitation of the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam, Le Nu Perdu made the blindfolded music theatre experience Fernweh, based on the correspondance of Vincent van Gogh...
heim | LE NU PERDU (2009)
One day I will bury myself Others don't have to do that Someday I will know And slowly start with my feet In the midst of all noise and confusion Le Nu Perdu...
schemer | LE NU PERDU (2008)
Le Nu Perdu is researching the area between darkness and light, between sleeping and waking up. A narrow space where anything is possible. They are creating a...
ins blaue hinein II | LE NU PERDU (2007)
Ins Blaue Hinein is a performance that you’ll experience individually. You will be personally addressed. We ask you to be open and let yourself be taken on a j...
ins blaue hinein | LE NU PERDU (2006/2011)
Can you dream without sleeping? If you close your eyes and sight turns inwards What will be your truth? What will you see? ...