... that their synthesis itself, their consistency or capture, forms a properly machinic "statement" or "enunciation." The varying relations into which a color, sound, gesture, movement, or position enters in the same species, and in different species, form so many machinic enunciations.
I. A child in the dark, gripped with fear, comforts himself by singing under his breath. He walks and halts to his song. Lost, he takes shelter, or orients himself with his little song as best he can. The song is likea rough sketch of a calming and stabilizing, calm and stable, center in the heart of chaos. Perhaps the child skips as he sings, hastens or slows his pace. But the song itself is already a skip: it jumps from chaos to the beginnings of order in chaos and is in danger of breaking apart at any moment. There is always sonority in Ariadne's thread. Or the song of Orpheus.
Becoming-Music. We have tried to define in the case of Western music (although the other musical traditions confront an analogous problem, under different conditions, to which they find different solutions) a block of becoming at the level ofexpression, or a block ofexpression: this block of becoming rests on transversals that continually escape from the coordinates or punctual systems functioning asmusical codes at a given moment. It is obvious that there is a block of content corresponding to this block of expression.
Memories and Becomings, Points and Blocks. Why are there so many becomings of man, but no becoming-man?
A number of post-Marxist theories of community emerged in the 1980s. French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, writing in a Heideggerian end Derridedn tradition argues for an understdnding of community founded not on the immanence of individuals being-in-common, but on an 'unworking' (desoeuvremenr) of togetherness brought about by that which presents a limit to community - that is death. Nancy's complex text has been referenced by a number of writers on participatory art. (from Claire Bishop (ed.), Participation, Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, 2006)
Relational Aesthetics has come come to be seen as a defining text for a generation of artists who came to prominence in Europe in the early to mid 1990s. The following text is a selection of excerpts from Bourriaud's collection of seven discrete essays originally published in magazines end exhibition catalogues. (from Claire Bishop (ed.), Participation, Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, 2006)
In 2010, a museum and cultural center will open on Reunion Island, the Maison des Civilisation set de l’Unité Réunionnaise (MCUR). It will be the first museum built on the island entirely born out of colonial and postcolonial experiences. For the last three years, a team has been working on its cultural and scientific program and has organized events. The project has recently entered a new phase with the meeting of an international jury on May 14th, 2007. It proposed X-TU as the laureate for the architectural contest which used a spiral form as an answer.
In 2010, a museum and cultural center will open on Reunion Island, the Maison des Civilisation set de l’Unité Réunionnaise (MCUR). It will be the first museum built on the island entirely born out of colonial and postcolonial experiences. For the last three years, a team has been working on its cultural and scientific program and has organized events. The project has recently entered a new phase with the meeting of an international jury on May 14th, 2007. It proposed X-TU as the laureate for the architectural contest which used a spiral form as an answer.
Seminar in La Reunion
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Presentations: Angela Melitopolous, Ines Schaber