Erik Peters

Documentation of the latest playtest of game-installation 𝔅𝔢𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔇𝔢𝔩𝔲𝔤𝔢 last February, in development together with @cyannevdhouten and Ymer Marinus during the Winter Sessions residency of V2_ in Rotterdam. Curious? Next session opens on July 11th, same place same time 🔮🔮 
𝔅𝔢𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔇𝔢𝔩𝔲𝔤𝔢 opens in the hush before a storm. You awaken on a remote island in an endless sea. Here, Deluges emergence and come to rest, as the multiplayer game invites you to wander in search of stories. You have no map and hear a voice that is not your own. As you move through fractured coastlines and half-sunken ruins, time unfolds. Tracing patterns across Atlantean collapse, submerged continents, celestial patterns and drowned gods, you search for relics that unlock fragments of ancient transoceanic knowledge. Who or what might save us from ourselves? 📸 3-7 @lana_mesic 8/9 possibly hints 👀

🐠 There is another planet not far from here, where the ocean stretches entirely across its sphere. Where the word for world is water. Where breathing, if anything breathes, would not mean isolating oxygen from air. It would mean becoming one with the medium. Permeable. Becoming what the whale already knows: you are not separate from all the things that holds you. I dream of those worlds sometimes. Of an endless sea. There or then, I would not be a fish full of borrowed air. I would simply be Ocean, dreaming herself into shape. 🎣 “How deep is the ocean?” asks the plastic fish jealous of the whale, her lungs big enough to stretch from the depths to the surface. Big enough for her whale fall to sustain ecosystems for hundred years after her final breath. And you? In whatever way you have found a way to breath through unbreathable conditions. You are still here. There is no end to what a living world will demand if you. You and the whale have so much in common. 🎣 “How deep is the ocean?”, sonic fiction performance (KITCHEN ACT 3) for @dutchartinstitute with sound design by @kaarst.la recorded during our residency at @postosegreto.it this spring 🌊💙 special thanks to Dory, Nika, Dana, @aamuolento , @tarawhite.co.uk and Monique for their support and for transforming our dog house into a stage 🏡

At a moment when some nations build their identity around the control and domination of water, Erik Peters explores immersion as relation in his Journey ‘Drowned goddess of a flooded land. Submergence as relation’, part of OCEAN / UNI: Spaces of Collaboration In the North Sea region, submerged elements have been found that speak of past landscapes and civilisations resurfacing thousands of years later. The recovery of these histories depends on the same technologies that have turned the North Sea into a site of extraction, making its mapping more difficult. How might immersion offer an embodied method for relational ontologies? Rather than a place of disappearance, the sea becomes an archive that invites new ways of learning from it, while resisting capture. Rediscovering forgotten histories can offer an invaluable perspective on how we might avoid ecological collapse and better adapt to multispecies environments. Read the full text in the link in bio and stories. Images: Courtesy of the Author

Ontmoet Erik Peters (@e_ptrs ), de eerste ambassadeur van Museumnacht010! Volg jij de route van Erik langs feministische ervaringen, explosieve dansvloeren en… schimmels? 📍 Reading My Panties: DIY-station door Lu Lin @printroom_rtm 📍 Buddies ’26 @galerieatelierherenplaat 📍 A Fungi Night Out @nieuweinstituut 📍 @striptopia : Labour That Leaves Traces @wereldmuseum.rotterdam 📍 @kult.funktion : A Glimpse of the underground @wereldmuseum.rotterdam 📍 Fem Fest @worm_rotterdam 📍 @luisurreal (live) @brutus.rotterdam 📍 Shadow Circuits @mamarotterdam 📍 Performance La Revolution rêverêverêve Depot @boijmans Check voor meer informatie over deze activiteiten museumnacht010.nl (link in bio 🔗) Erik Peters is een interdisciplinaire kunstenaar en artistiek onderzoeker die nieuwe toekomsten verkent. Vanuit queer ecologie creëert die samen met anderen installaties, performances en workshops waarin mens, technologie en meer-dan-menselijke werelden samenkomen. Foto door Theresa Maria Forthaus #museumnacht010 #rotterdam #museumnacht #erikpeters

🪸 How to Wake Up the Ghosts is still on display at @doxprague ! 🪸 In 2021 I gave my first talk about this work at FIBER Festival during the panel ‘Mutant Myths Worlds’ which highlighted two collaborative projects I participated in during my residency at Roodkapje. I didn’t specify the credits clearly enough at the time, so to avoid possible confusion I want to clearly highlight the credits again within these collaborations: 

👾🗺️ Earthrise (2021)
A location-based game presented at the exhibition ‘Zero Emissions by 2099’ at MaMa, curated by @mary_universe . Directed, developed and produced by @___louisa___ based on the worldbuilding and with writing, recording and sound design by @liminal.vision , a poem by @gill.baldwin , copywriting by me, graphic design by @jackrackjack and coding by @poni.js 🪸🌊 How to Wake Up the Ghosts (2021) An installation commissioned by Tetem for the exhibition ‘Yours Truthfully’. Directed, sculpted and produced by me, with sound design by Ymer Marinus, AI-generated visuals (CLIP+VQGAN) by @nadiapiet , writing by @lorena_solis_bravo intertwining two custom-trained LLM (GPT-2), printed at 3D Robotprinting and with voice-over by @bethany.andrzejak 🌊 
“The group exhibition ‘Point of View 3: Balance’ seeks a balance between the organic and technical worlds. Through the works of Czech and international artists, the exhibition reveals the various connections between nature and technology… Microorganisms merge with computer chips, and technology permeates our lives – it is not separate from us, and we naturally seek a balance in our “techno-organic ecosystem”. Where do I end, and where do my surroundings begin?… Am I a part of my devices?“ 💕 Curated by Karolína Voleská, @vivatzivot and Jiří Raiterman 💕 Supported by @cbkrotterdam 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐖𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐔𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐎𝐗 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟏𝟏 𝐀𝐩𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 – 𝟐𝟐 𝐌𝐚𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 📸 1: Uhel Pohledu for DOX 📸 2: Celina Veenendaal for Tetem

🧚⛓️‍💥 𝕿𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖞 𝖇𝖊𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖘 𝖎𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖓𝖔𝖗𝖙𝖍 𝖔𝖋 𝕴𝖙𝖆𝖑𝖞, 𝖜𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊 𝖘𝖔𝖎𝖑 𝖗𝖊𝖒𝖊𝖒𝖇𝖊𝖗𝖘 𝖔𝖑𝖉 𝖘𝖕𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖘. 𝕴𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖍𝖆𝖉𝖔𝖜 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕯𝖔𝖑𝖔𝖒𝖎𝖙𝖊𝖘, 𝖆 𝖉𝖔𝖌 𝖜𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖗𝖊𝖉 𝖙𝖔𝖔 𝖋𝖆𝖗 𝖎𝖓𝖙𝖔 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖔𝖉𝖘. 𝕬𝖓𝖉 𝖆𝖘 𝖎𝖙 𝖕𝖚𝖑𝖑𝖊𝖉, 𝖘𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖈𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖒𝖊𝖉. 𝕬 𝖘𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖉 𝖑𝖎𝖐𝖊 𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖞 𝖘𝖎𝖑𝖊𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖋𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖞 𝖌𝖎𝖛𝖊𝖓 𝖘𝖍𝖆𝖕𝖊. 𝕺𝖓𝖈𝖊, 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕸𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖗𝖆𝖐𝖊 𝖘𝖑𝖊𝖕𝖙 𝖇𝖊𝖓𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 𝖐𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖉𝖔𝖒𝖘. 𝕹𝖔𝖜 𝖘𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖘 𝖇𝖊𝖓𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 𝖙𝖔𝖜𝖊𝖗𝖘 𝖔𝖋 𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖊𝖑…
 Mandragora (or ‘Does it have to die to be reborn?’) is a fairy tale drag performance about the ancient history of the mandragora root, its wide-spread magical and medicinal properties, and its erasure by church and state during the medieval witch hunt. How does her existence as unique European plant-human hybrid defy dominant notions of landscape and its extraction? And what can her legacy – spreading from Mesopotamian to medieval times (so way before bully JK Rowling included her in the HP universe) – teach us about collective resistance beyond borderised nation-states?  🧚⛓️‍💥 𝕿𝖔 𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖏𝖚𝖗𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖙𝖗𝖚𝖙𝖍, 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖔𝖗𝖆 𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖘 𝖙𝖔 𝖇𝖊 𝖊𝖒𝖇𝖗𝖆𝖈𝖊𝖉 𝖇𝖞 𝖉𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 𝖔𝖓 𝖊𝖎𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗 𝖘𝖎𝖉𝖊 𝖔𝖋 𝖎𝖙𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌. 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖙𝖗𝖊𝖊𝖘 𝖜𝖍𝖎𝖘𝖕𝖊𝖗…  Performed this August at @centrale_fies_official to conclude my first year roaming with @dutchartinstitute . I loved working on this piece with dear friends and collaborators SO MUCH and would love to perform it for new audiences in the future! Please 💌📬 for more information or suggestions :)  💖 Miss Mandragora was realised thanks to wonder team: 🐶 Fellow performers @jipcat and @saynotosu   💄MUA and costume design @jipcat 🌱 Headpiece @saynotosu   💇‍♀️ Wig styling @bbmalinconia and everyone else who helped :)  🌄 Video @orah________   🔊 Soundtrack @kaarst.la   🌳Production support @xiaoshibuhao @patrickfreriksen   📸 Photo documentation @patrickfreriksen   📹 Video documentation @leo.hugendubel   And thanks to @b______z______s for introducing me to the root and its narrative-body in Cyprus 💖

We’re already 2 weeks into Wasteland Festival: Out of Sight ♻️ After more than 1,5 years of work, our transdisciplinary festival on waste ecologies has landed for the first time in Rotterdam and spreads out across 4 different locations with a month-long programme of exhibitions, performances, workshops, a summer school, dinners and events 🧚 I’m so proud and grateful to be working with the amazing teams of @tentrotterdam @roodkapje_rotterdam @nieuweinstituut and @gemaalopzuid who are working with us to make this all happen, and endless hugs for @anneveraveen @arisiology and @artagitka for co-curating and organising this festival together 🥹🥰 💌 marketing & communication @nicolejesse 💌 communications & production assistance @marghttp 💌 graphic design and web development by @martin_foucaut 💌 Special thanks to @doctor.gonzo__ for kickstarting and co-developing this edition Slide for upcoming events or check our website 👀 Wasteland: Out of Sight welcomes over 40 artists, designers, researchers and performers from more than 12 countries into the Wasteland community this year 🫶 Together we explore the hidden infrastructures that shape urban life – from logistics and landfills to data centres and dredging 🌊 these structures make functional city life possible through the constant removal of waste that enables the city to be reborn and renewed, ready to be used and consumed daily. First and last pics by @lavinia_xausa Artworks slide 4 @gaiadrr , 6 @matildepatuelli_ & @robertadicosmo , 8 @miriamsentler 💕

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documentation details of my first international solo show ‘Inframundos’ last spring at @estratos___ @lascigarrerascc with @lacuartapiel 💓🧚 I’ll be showing some elements of this installation at the exhibition ‘Ruins & Ruination’ at @archief__artspace in Rotterdam, opening upcoming Friday 7th from 5PM onwards. Hope to see you there! The show will run until 30.03 and will be part of @rotterdamartweek 
“With Inframundos, the first solo exhibition of @e_ptrs in Spain, La Quarta Piel and the artist present a series of works related to the mysteries of the underground. Addressing both mythologies and realities that have existed beneath the Earth’s layers for centuries—and will continue to expand invisible to human eyes—, the artist speculates on the postnatural ctonic conditions that emerge in times of planetary crisis. Their work encompasses audiovisual works, sculptures, textiles, print materials and botanicals to weave an interconnected narrative of queer relationships and coexistence. From future technoscience artefacts and parasitic morphospecies mutated in deep underground caves, to artificial coral reefs and hybrid entities of the deep sea, Inframundos invites the visitor to critically imagine how our terrestrial ecosystems could evolve alongside and beyond human interference.” 🌪️ On that note! The world is burning and with recent olicharcic / technocratic developments we need alternatives more than ever. I’ve got one foot outside the door of this platform and hope to slowly move away. You can now find me on Pixelfed and read more about alternative social media platforms at @zipspace.nl 🫶

“There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” Find us this week Nov 20-24 with @sickhouse.nl in Enschede for @theoverkillfestival ! Returning for the second year as curator of the Fluid Program and I’m so happy to have put this program together 🩰 The Overkill is a playful festival celebrating indie and arthouse games, interactive arts and alternative films within a cultural and social context. Triggered by a feeling of powerlessness in a world that seems wrapped in violence, The Overkill festival is looking into the role of play within activism, the place joy can take in times of great crisis and the power of pleasure in movement of resistance. With the theme ‘Radical Joy Resistance’ the festival is wondering what are the (digital) tools, the (virtual) places, the encounters, the (online) gatherings we can create to give each other courage and build new lines of defence. The program will create room for the voices that we don’t hear, open its space for listening, to speak up, to share and try together. The Overkill invites playful artists to engage with us in the troubles and help us activate disruptive movements, may it be small, loud, temporary or transformative. Alongside a full program of interactive works, games, workshops, films and performances, find works in the exhibition space by @antigonibunny , @sondi.online and @questionscollective , interactive workshops and performances during the weekend by @radvlad , @questionscollective and @annewfehres & @lukefconroy , and a screening of @uyra.doc on Friday evening and Sun Ra’s Space is the Place on Sunday afternoon 🌀🌀 Find the full program on the website 🫡

🔗 www.erikpeters.work Web design + Web development of Erik Peters new website! ⚒️ - "Erik Peters is an interdisciplinary artist and artistic researcher who explores worldbuilding through storytelling. Their work delves into speculative fiction, creating pathways between myths and realities to imagine new possibilities amidst a world in planetary crisis." Thank you Erik for the opportunity to work together on this 💛 - #webdevelopment #websesign #motiongraphics #motionmood #mdcommunity #digitalarchive