 These events also marked the beginnings of the Belgium Performance Festival in which Wouters was assigned as a curator.In 2015 he received a double Ph.D in Art History and Archaeology (Free University of Brussels) and in Theater Sciences (University of Antwerp) for his research on the Belgian Happening scene of the mid-1960s.The same year he was asked to give a lecture on the afterlife of Dada during the 56th edition of the Venice Biennale.