Actively not Arriving: A Durational Atmospheric Intervention

SenseLab

We propose the creation of a singular foyer for encounter and thinking-feeling in a collaborative, open-source environment. Concretely, we plan to install a space for ongoing modulation between art and philosophy/thinking. Located in a transient area of the conference, the space will processually tend intensities as they modulate in the intervals of the event, offering specific techniques and mate...

conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: November 9, 2015
venue: De Bijloke Music Center, Foyer
format: coLab
practice: performance
keywords: artistic research, diagram, intensity

Dialogue I: On Performance or Untimely Fabulation

Christoph Brunner, Arno Böhler, Susanne Valerie Granzer, Julien Bruneau, Erin Manning, Christel Stalpaert

The question of the dark precursor should not be mistaken as an instant in a chronological unfolding of events. In determining intensities “in advance but in reverse, as though intagliated” the dark precursor actually lacks a sense of empirical time and it lacks its article. It is not a mere “one” but a singularity—that is, an actual occasion beyond the measure of time while being in tim...

conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: November 9, 2015
venue: Orpheus Institute, Concert Hall
format: dialogue
practice: performance
keywords: emergence, fabulation, in-act, performance, singularity, untimely

Corpus Delicti #2 // Untimely Precursors

Arno Böhler, Susanne Valerie Granzer

On 30 July 1881 Nietzsche sent a postcard to his friend Franz Overbeck, enthusiastically expressing his surprise at having discovered he had a famous precursor in the history of philosophy: I am utterly amazed, utterly enchanted! I have a precursor, and what a precursor! I hardly knew Spinoza: that I should have turned to him just now, was inspired by “instinct.” Not only is...

conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: November 9, 2015
venue: De Bijloke Music Center, Mezzanine
format: keynote
practice: performance
keywords: Baruch Spinoza, Friedrich Nietzsche, lecture-performance, Michel Foucault, Plato, untimely

Strata: A Lecture Performance

Julien Bruneau

My first creative gesture, always, is inwards. I look inside; I dive inside. I bathe myself in the numerous, interconnected yet distinct streams of sensations, thoughts, and feelings that incessantly rush through me. I drift upon them; I observe how they intersect, split one another apart, or converge. Amidst the buzzing of inner activities that living appears to be as soon as one suspends one’s...

conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: June 9, 2017
venue: De Bijloke Music Center, Auditorium
format: keynote
practice: performance
keywords: assemblage, diagram, Isabelle Stengers, lecture-performance, plane of composition, rhizome, self-reflection, stratum