Piet Devos

writer and literary theorist

Welcome

Because I went blind at the age of five, I know the world from both a sighted and blind perspective. As a result of this life-changing experience, perception has always continued to fascinate me. How do our senses work? How has perception changed through the centuries? What is the influence of language and culture on our way of looking, hearing, or touching? These are the questions that form a recurring theme in my literary and academic work.

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions or if you would like to invite me to give a lecture or workshop. You are also welcome to approach me with requests for papers, essays or stories.

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Le monde à portée de main : Outils pédagogiques de Spermalie pour l’enseignement aux aveugles

21 May 2021
Le monde à portée de main vient d’ouvrir ses portes à Bruges et à Louvain. Il s’agit de la première exposition consacrée à l’histoire de l’enseignement destiné aux enfants aveugles et malvoyants en Belgique. Tonia In den Kleef et moi avons le privilège d’avoir été désignés commissaires de cette exposition multisensorielle. …
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Le monde à portée de main : Outils pédagogiques de Spermalie pour l’enseignement aux aveugles

21 May 2021
Le monde à portée de main vient d’ouvrir ses portes à Bruges et à Louvain. Il s’agit de la première exposition consacrée à l’histoire de l’enseignement destiné aux enfants aveugles et malvoyants en Belgique. Tonia In den Kleef et moi avons le privilège d’avoir été désignés commissaires de cette exposition multisensorielle. …
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Le monde à portée de main : Outils pédagogiques de Spermalie pour l’enseignement aux aveugles

21 May 2021
Le monde à portée de main vient d’ouvrir ses portes à Bruges et à Louvain. Il s’agit de la première exposition consacrée à l’histoire de l’enseignement destiné aux enfants aveugles et malvoyants en Belgique. Tonia In den Kleef et moi avons le privilège d’avoir été désignés commissaires de cette exposition multisensorielle. …
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Performing the monument: kneeling down at Irene Ransburg’s Stolperstein

20 June 2020
For this performance, Florian Grond and I recorded my visit to and reading of the Stolperstein dedicated to the memory of the deaf-blind poet Irene Ransburg.
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Performing the monument: kneeling down at Irene Ransburg’s Stolperstein

20 June 2020
For this performance, Florian Grond and I recorded my visit to and reading of the Stolperstein dedicated to the memory of the deaf-blind poet Irene Ransburg.
theme Sensory history READ MORE

Performing the monument: kneeling down at Irene Ransburg’s Stolperstein

20 June 2020
For this performance, Florian Grond and I recorded my visit to and reading of the Stolperstein dedicated to the memory of the deaf-blind poet Irene Ransburg.
theme Sensory history READ MORE

Missing child in the mirror

01 June 2019
(First prize in the Dr. Alam Darsono short story competition 2019) Stop and linger a while, dear visitor: this is me lying here before you, in clay.
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Missing child in the mirror

01 June 2019
(First prize in the Dr. Alam Darsono short story competition 2019) Stop and linger a while, dear visitor: this is me lying here before you, in clay.
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Missing child in the mirror

01 June 2019
(First prize in the Dr. Alam Darsono short story competition 2019) Stop and linger a while, dear visitor: this is me lying here before you, in clay.
theme Creative writing READ MORE

Meeting Blindness: When visual art enters the life-worlds of blind people

27 April 2019
(Foreword to Kristina Steinbock’s catalogue Selected Works on Blindness, 2018) Living with a disability is comparable to making art in the sense that they both force us to shake off stifling norms.
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Meeting Blindness: When visual art enters the life-worlds of blind people

27 April 2019
(Foreword to Kristina Steinbock’s catalogue Selected Works on Blindness, 2018) Living with a disability is comparable to making art in the sense that they both force us to shake off stifling norms.
theme Reflections READ MORE

Meeting Blindness: When visual art enters the life-worlds of blind people

27 April 2019
(Foreword to Kristina Steinbock’s catalogue Selected Works on Blindness, 2018) Living with a disability is comparable to making art in the sense that they both force us to shake off stifling norms.
theme Reflections READ MORE

Tardy Presents: Embodied agency in the ‘documental’ poetry of Benjamin Péret and Antonio Porchia

24 February 2019
(Article co-authored with Gys-Walt van Egdom, published in Literature as Document. Eds. Sarah Bonciarelli et al. Pp. 133-148) In this paper, we examine an often overlooked literary tradition, which came to see the act of writing as a way of documenting ‘pure’ embodied agency.
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Tardy Presents: Embodied agency in the ‘documental’ poetry of Benjamin Péret and Antonio Porchia

24 February 2019
(Article co-authored with Gys-Walt van Egdom, published in Literature as Document. Eds. Sarah Bonciarelli et al. Pp. 133-148) In this paper, we examine an often overlooked literary tradition, which came to see the act of writing as a way of documenting ‘pure’ embodied agency.
theme Research READ MORE

Tardy Presents: Embodied agency in the ‘documental’ poetry of Benjamin Péret and Antonio Porchia

24 February 2019
(Article co-authored with Gys-Walt van Egdom, published in Literature as Document. Eds. Sarah Bonciarelli et al. Pp. 133-148) In this paper, we examine an often overlooked literary tradition, which came to see the act of writing as a way of documenting ‘pure’ embodied agency.
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Jacques Lusseyran, entre cécité et lumière

04 January 2019
La première étude consacrée à la vie et l’œuvre exceptionnelles de Jacques Lusseyran vient de paraître aux Éditions Rue d’Ulm.
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Jacques Lusseyran, entre cécité et lumière

04 January 2019
La première étude consacrée à la vie et l’œuvre exceptionnelles de Jacques Lusseyran vient de paraître aux Éditions Rue d’Ulm.
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Jacques Lusseyran, entre cécité et lumière

04 January 2019
La première étude consacrée à la vie et l’œuvre exceptionnelles de Jacques Lusseyran vient de paraître aux Éditions Rue d’Ulm.
theme Research READ MORE