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October 17th 2012, 7pm
Film Screening and Discussion of Assemblages by Angela Melitopoulos and Maurizio Lazzarato
+ Nanopolitics Weblaunch
hosted by the nanopolitics group @ No.w.here, 316 – 318 Bethnal Green Rd, London, E2 0AG
The nanopolitics group invites you to the screening and discussion of Assemblages, an audiovisual research project by Angela Melitopoulos and Maurizio Lazzarato 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.
In Guattari’s work and in the same manner as in animist societies, subjectivity loses the transcendent and transcendental status that characterises 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 characterise the world of childhood, of psychosis, of amorous or political passion, and of artistic creation.
We have recently written a collective text round the affinities of our practice with the work of Guattari, and are just working on a new text departing from this material, which can be found on this website. This screening will be facilitated in nanopolitical style and entail a brief and gentle sensory-perceptual experiment, a discussion as well as a little drink to celebrate.
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2012-13: period of reflection and collective writing towards a ‘nanopolitics handbook’ (forthcoming with Autonomedia in 2013).
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june
- Working with fear (2)
based on Grinberg
may
- Tonalities of relation (2) – the voice
based on voice training techniques and radio
- Technoshamanist Performance Ritual
ritual of dressing up, remix and hacking
april
- Tonalities of relation (1) – experiencing anatomy and tone
based on Body Mind Centering
march
- How to engage at the margins of a demonstration: games, formats, tools
based on Theatre of the Oppressed, SOMA and more
- Our protest: resonances, impressions, processes
based on Theatre of the Oppressed, SOMA and more
february
- Postromantic dance – an exploration of contact improvisation as metaphor of a relational space beyond mono– and hetero–normativity
based on Contact Improvisation
january
- Working with fear (1)
based on theatre of the Oppressed and SOMA (an anarchist therapy)
\\\ 2010
december
- Debrief after the last weeks of education struggle
discussion and mapping
october
- Sensuality and politics
based on SOMA
july/august
- tempete de l’amour – on love
based on Theatre of the Oppressed and various other methods
may
- Street training
based on street training, inhabiting streets otherwise
- voice session (1)
based on voice work, contact improvisation and performance techniques
- voice session (2) Relating, remembering and embodying through the voice
based on voice training and dance therapy
april
- Invisible theatre: From intimacy to aggression as bodies in London
Based on Theatre of the Oppressed
march
- contact for radicals (2)
based on Contact Improvisation
february
- anger and aggression
based on SOMA
january
- Contact for radicals – focussing around gender and queer politics
based on contact improvisation