events and workshops

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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).

 

/// 2011

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 monoand heteronormativity
    based on Contact Improvis
    ation

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