Download: https://calibre.constantvzw.org/read/185/pdf This playful research report contains observations and fragments of interventions that were developed during the research project reclaiming Digital Infrastructures, which took place in KASK, School of Arts, Gent in 2021. “What we learn and how we learn are closely related. Now that digital learning seems to have become a new norm, it…

The article “Designing openings” is written in response to two projects that took place simultaneously in and around KASK. The “Open Design Course for refugees and asylum seekers” and the exhibition “Plus Ultra” by the artist Daniel Andújar. “Designing Openings” analyzes how they each critically engage with the institutional environment within which they operate in…

In: Grounds for possible Music, Exploring gender, voice, language and identity Errant Bodies Press, Julia Eckhardt (ed), 2018 This article reports of the situated practice of Christine van Russel-Henar in which research and life practice are closely related. She is the founder of the Koto-Museum in Paramaribo, Suriname that pays tribute to the rich cultural…

Critical Arts, South-North Cultural and Media Studies Volume 31, 2017 – Issue 2: No Strings Attached: Exploring the Relationship between Anthropology and Contemporary Arts This article written by Peter Westenberg and Kris Rutten, analyses notions of participation, publicness, and proximity in the participatory artistic research projects Parlez-vous Saint-Gillois? and De Schaarbeekse Taal. It is explored…

Loslaten als discipline An interview by Pieter van Bogaert (Square) in conversation with Peter Westenberg and Wendy van Wynsberghe in the framework of the project ‘en suite’. This text talks about several aspects of the projects that evolve around the organization Constant in which the interviewee recognizes a practice of ‘letting go’. We talked about…

Article for Trepeta, Artium museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 2010 A short article that summarises some ideas behind Routes and Routines. I wrote it for the magazine Trepeta, published by the Basque museum for contemporary art Artium in Vitoria-Gasteiz. Read / download the text from online publisher Constant Verlag Here you can find a PDF and an epub:…

DIY performance manual, Text contribution to Platonique Lab, a project by Platonique. 2009 “These three short exercises investigate permitted behaviour in public space as specified in local laws. Every time we act according to the law, we are contributing to its confirmation, we become ’legal bodies’; trained and instructed by a law we might or…

Routes and Routines, brochure, 54 pages, Hasselt, 2008 A joint publication by Constant vzw and Z33 Texts by: Peter Westenberg, Liesbeth Huybrechts, Wendy van Wynsberghe Graphic design: OSP, Ludivine Loiseau and Yi Jiang Download in PDF (34 mb) This booklet documents five network walks as a part of the Routes and Routines roject Peter Westenberg…

Peter Westenberg contributed an article Affinity video to the ’first research book about YouTube’ published by the Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur in Amsterdam.

Booklet with cd rom, 2004 A booklet about the web streaming project World Wide Westwijk, which consisted of a television program webcasted on a weekly basis between december 2003 and june 2004, combining the traditional documentary character of local tv with artistic avant garde in-situ interventions.

Book, 2003 “A publication about the organisation of private life, the nuclear family and the institutionalisation of love , realised in the framework of the thematic project The Organisation of Private Life, a co-production by the Piet Zwart Institute and the Kunstuniversit”t Linz.

Booklet with texts and visual contributions, 2001 This publication was commissioned by dance company Meg Stuart and Damaged Goods, and accompanied their Rotterdam performance of Highway 101. Guest writers and artists reflected on normality, representation, human behavior and excess in a contemporary urban environment. Read: Introduction by Rudi Laermans and Myriam van Imschoot The lifestyle…

Article for Archis #5, 2001 A political contextualization of Chicano and Black murals in Los Angeles. This article about the political reality behind murals in Los Angeles was published in 2001 in the architectural magazine Archis. It presents excerpts from a report I wrote during a working period in Los Angeles.

Series of printed matter 1996 – 2001 A series of independently published small booklets, flyers and posters, dealing with the relation between cultural identity and geographical places. The bimonthly editions were mailed to subscribants and distributed via bookshops and hand out networks. Visit the online archive.