CPPM welcomes its next guest artist, Peader Kirk, for a two-week workshop beginning on 8 December 2025 at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Known internationally for his bold performance-making practice across sound art, theatre, and site-responsive work, Kirk returns to CPPM with a new intensive that moves fluidly between theory and practice, engaging with the urgent tensions of our contemporary world and the role of the artist within it.

In this workshop, participants will work principally through practical exploration, while also stepping back to reflect on their creative processes and the moment we collectively inhabit. Kirk invites students to set aside the notion of “creative solutions” and instead dive into the strategies, processes, and provocations that underpin performance making today. Through task-based exercises, compositional approaches, and collaborative enquiry, students will generate material, build encounters, and create moments of performance that question how a work comes into being—and how it works. Along the way, they will explore physical languages, text generators, identities and personas, games that don’t yet exist, spontaneous composition, grids, resources, and the seeding of change. There will be rigorous questioning, imaginative experimentation, and laughter.

Central to Kirk’s methodology is the idea that artistic work emerges from a question about how the world is right now – a question impossible to answer in words alone, one that demands a creative response. This workshop asks participants to consider the fraught terrain of the future: Is it something we can shape, or something predetermined? Is it close at hand, or still out of reach? What might a “better future” look like, and better for whom? These provocations will guide the group through hands-on explorations that bridge performance, politics, imagination, and lived experience.

Running 8–19 December 2025, the workshop culminates in an Open Class on 19 December at 19:00 in the EMTA Black Box, where audiences are warmly invited to witness the outcomes of this dynamic, exploratory process.

This intensive forms part of CPPM’s commitment to world-leading postgraduate education, international collaboration, and advanced artistic training. Situated at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn, CPPM continues to offer transformative training opportunities for artists seeking to expand their creative development, physical performance, and performance-making strategies.