The Dark Precursor
International Conference on Deleuze and Artistic Research
Orpheus Institute, Ghent, Belgium
9 – 11 November 2015
Deadline for submissions: Monday, 1 June 2015
The International Conference on Deleuze and Artistic Research (DARE 2015) explores possibilities, uses and appropriations of Gilles Deleuze and/or Félix Guattari’s philosophy in the field of Artistic Research. Organised by Music Experiment 21 (ME21) and hosted by the Orpheus Institute, DARE 2015 welcomes submissions from all artists and artist-researchers specifically interested in Deleuze and/or Guattari’s philosophy, as well as from all scholars of Deleuze and/or Guattari with a specific interest in artistic research.
The notion of the dark precursor concerns the question of how a communication between heterogeneous systems, “of couplings and resonance,” occurs without being predetermined. In relation to artistic research we ask how to compose these resonances, how to create new couplings that are not accidental but rigorous and at the same time indeterminate. How to create in the midst of a primordial difference?
We encourage artist-researchers and scholars to experiment with all modes of presentation and to submit outlines in all areas of interference between Deleuze and/or Guattari’s philosophy with artistic research. For instance, presentations may address questions about the creative act in artistic practices and trans-disciplinary research; the genesis of forms and processes of individuation; the production, validation and dissemination of knowledge in artistic research; styles of thinking; the ethico-aesthetic paradigm and its politics, subjectification and universes of value. Please submit tour proposal in English or French by 1st June 2015 using the conference online submission system at: dare2015.exordo.com
Confirmed invited presentations: Éric Alliez (Kingston University), Ian Buchanan (University of Wollongong), Julien Bruneau (dancer, Brussels), Edward Campbell (University of Aberdeen), Marcel Cobussen (University of Leiden), Brian Hulse (College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA), Susanne Granzer & Arno Böhler (University of Vienna), Bernhard Lang (composer, Vienna), Erin Manning (Concordia University, Montreal), Taina Riikonen (University of Helsinki), Anne Sauvagnargues (Paris West University), Martin Scherzinger, (New York University), Peter Stamer (independent theatre maker, Berlin), Mick Wilson (Valand Academy, Gothenburg).
Chair: Paulo de Assis (Orpheus Institute, Ghent)
Editorial board: Arno Böhler (University of Vienna), Henk Borgdorff (University of the Arts, The Hague), Christoph Brunner (Zurich University of the Arts), Kathleen Coessens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Laura Cull (University of Surrey, Guildford), Mika Elo (University of the Arts, Helsinki), Paolo Giudici (Royal College of Art, London), Julian Klein (director of the Institut für künstlerische Forschung, Berlin), David Savat (executive editor of the Deleuze Studies Journal), Michael Schwab (editor in chief of the Journal for Artistic Research), Kamini Vellodi (Central Saint Martins, London).
Coordinator: Paolo Giudici, conference@darkprecursor.com
