Blown up! eventwork [à la recherche des élèves de Deleuze]

blown up ! is an eventwork, mapping an investigation at once philosophical, cinematic and relational. In a manner similar to Antonioni’s film Blow-Up which follows a photographer’s quest to locate a body in a London park from a blow-up of a snapshot he has taken, Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson explored 1970s video footage of Gilles Deleuze’s courses at the University of Vincennes to locate participants in the seminar who then became collaborators in their film, Facs of Life. But blown up ! equally derives from an explosion, recomposing scattered shards of a political moment, a research process, a corpus of images, voices and concepts, within the framework of “a temporary autonomous classroom” that exhorts us to “make rhizomes, not roots, never plant ! Don’t sow grow offshoots ! Don’t be one or multiple, be multiplicities. Run lines, never plot a point !”

blown up ! is an eventwork turning around two axes : 1. the exhibition/redistribution of elements of the film Facs of Life, a cinematic quest to find students of Deleuze at Vincennes and to uncover traces of the experience in their life practices. 2. the installation/construction of a space for experimental pedagogy, a temporary autonomous classroom for creative questioning of the organization, temporalities and aims of formal education. Between four intense moments of multiple interdisciplinary encounters (Nov. 29, Dec. 5, 11,13) the space will remain ‘open’ for whoever (teachers, researchers, artists) wishes to use it by displacing and exhibiting their activities, courses or ongoing projects to Mains d’Oeuvres, leaving a trace, tracing a trajectory of work or research on its potential blackboard. Contact : Vanessa Foray vanessa@mainsdoeuvres.org

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