The Caesura or Break in Time

William Bogard

A “caesura” is conventionally defined as a break in metric time, a pause where time is not counted. A common device in the arts, but relevant to all modes of expression involving repetition, the caesura is said to introduce a “natural feeling” into exact or “metronomic” time. This is the active sense of the caesura, where it functions as a conscious device that reflects the rh...

conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: November 9, 2015
venue: De Bijloke Music Center, Auditorium
format: in words
practice: writing
keywords: affect, becoming-intense, chronos, repetition, rhythm

What Is an Academy?

Peter Bertram

The presentation shows an artistic research project made by the author at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, in Copenhagen. The project explores the academy institution through written reflection and the making of architectural models and drawings. The drawings and models will be shown visually, accompanied by a verbal and textual presentation. Initially, the presentat...

conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: November 9, 2015
venue: Orpheus Institute, Auditorium
format: in words
practice: space
keywords: architecture, Bergsonism, Foucault

Becoming-Pig: Humanimal Proximities and Zones of Transit in Kira O’Reilly’s Inthewrongplaceness

Burcu Baykan

This paper explores the resonances between the Deleuze-Guattarian theory of becoming-other and the series of bodily mutations that take place in the Irish performance artist Kira O’Reilly’s live piece Inthewrongplaceness (2005–9). Inthewrongplaceness stems from a scientific experimentation in a laboratory environment, in which O’Reilly explored the possibilities of biotec...

conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: November 9, 2015
venue: De Bijloke Music Center, Mezzanine
format: in words
practice: performance
keywords: affect, becoming-animal, biotechnology

Tonality in Music as a Key Concept to Explain Life

Can Batukan

What do I mean by tonality? Is there a closeness between tonality and affection? Why did Deleuze use so many musical terms such as “rhythm,” “vibration,” “resonance,” “tone,” and “ritornello”? (Deleuze and Guattari 1980; Deleuze 2002). Each musical piece is a totality of sound waves. Produced by single or multiple sources, they interact between thems...

conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: November 11, 2015
venue: Orpheus Institute, Auditorium
format: in words
practice: music and sound
keywords: affect, becoming-animal, François Zourabichvili, refrain, rhythm, tonality