Event overview
Angela Melitopoulos and Maurizio Lazzarato - Lecture and Screening on Felix Guattari, Friday 18 June 4-8pm
Lecture and screening on their audiovisual research project about Félix Guattari and his revolutionary psychiatric practice, his political activism as well as his ideas concerning ecosophy and his interest in animism especially in the Brazilian and Japanese context.
The research was shown in the form of a video installation in the exhibition ‘Animism’ (curated by Anselm Franke for the Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen and the Museum of Contemporary Art - M HKA). In Guattari's work and in the same manner as in animist societies, subjectivity loses the transcendent and transcendental status that characterizes the Western paradigm. Guattari’s thought and that of animist societies can find common ground in this understanding of subjectivity. Aspects of polysemic, transindividual, and animist subjectivity also characterize the world of childhood, of psychosis, of amorous or political passion, and of artistic creation.
The project is conceived as a video installation with excerpts from documentaries, essay-films, radio interviews, conversations with friends and colleagues of Guattari, and material on the clinic La Borde in France and institutional psychotherapy including films by Fernand Deligny, Renaud Victor, François Pain and others, as well as new material produced in Brazil in the course of the research.
Presented as a triptych of differently sized screens, the installation refers to ideas of movement and gravity eminent in the cartographies of animistic art as well as to concepts of the immaterial in Asiatic art. Each screen intensifies a modality of the senses: seeing, hearing, reading. The montage of the archival material is conceived as a mirror to Guattari‘s concept of the ‘assemblage’, which is also a main topic throughout the installation.
With the participation of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, (anthropologist, Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro), Éric Alliez (philosopher, Paris), Jean Claude Polack (psychiatrist, psycho-analyste, Paris), Barbara Glowczewski (anthropologist, Paris), Peter Pál Pelbart (professor of philosophy , Sao Paolo) Janja Rosangela Araujo (master of Capoeira Angola, professor , Salvador de Bahia), Jean Jacques Lebel, (artist, Paris) Archives : Tetsuo Kogawa, Suely Rolnik, François Pain, Institut Auiovisuel Parism ISKRA Paris and others. Assemblages will be shown within the exhibition Animism at Kunsthalle Bern from May till July 2010. Subsequent versions will be developed at the Generali Foundation in Vienna and the House of World Cultures in Berlin in 2011 and 2012, respectively.
Angela Melitopoulos works in time-based arts, realized experimental single-channel tapes, video installations, video-essays, documentaries and sound pieces. Her work focuses on migration/mobility, memory and narration; she participates in political networks in Europe and Turkey and frequently collaborates with Maurizio Lazzarato, Paris-based sociologist and social theorist and a member of the editorial group of the journal Multitudes.
Dates & times
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18 Jun 2010 | 4:00pm - 8:00pm |
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