Nietzsche 6+1: The Weight of Music

Paulo de Assis, Michael Schwab

Between 1854 (when he was aged ten) and 1872, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote a substantial number of musical compositions, including fragmentary pieces for solo piano, several songs, an uncompleted mass, and even a sketched opera. His activity as a composer remains essentially unknown, and his music pieces are rarely performed. A great admirer of Richard Wagner and profoundly influenced by the though...

conference: DARE 2017: aberrant nuptials
date: ongoing
format: on screen
practice: performance

DARE 2017 Opening Speech

Paulo de Assis

Artistic Research describes a particular mode of artistic practice and of knowledge production, in which scholarly research and artistic activity become inextricably intertwined. Questioning the boundaries between art, academia, philosophy and science, artistic research enables the exploration and generation of new modes of thought and sensible experience. In the last two decades, artistic resea...

conference: DARE 2017: aberrant nuptials
date: November 20, 2017
venue: Orpheus Institute, Concert Hall
format: keynote
keywords: artistic research, assemblage, dark precursor, desire, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, metastability, nuptial

Untimely Variations. A Video Interview with Paulo de Assis

Paulo de Assis

A short video-interview to Paulo de Assis (Orpheus Institute, 20 September 2015) about Deleuzabelli Variations #4. Chapters: Chronos 1:06 Differential repetitions 4:24 Resitence 5:24 Veränderungen 11:26 Thomas Heiber, interviewer; Gerhard Schabel, camera; Paolo Giudici, editing....

conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: November 9, 2015
venue: De Bijloke Music Center, Bibliotheek
format: on screen
practice: music and sound
keywords: chronos, difference, repetition, resistance, variation

Imaging the In-between: The Serial Art of Richard Tuttle

Laura Lake Smith

Since 1964, the American artist Richard Tuttle (b. 1941) has made approximately three hundred disparate series in the mediums of drawing, sculpture, printmaking, and painting. Although Tuttle’s commitment to serial art is unrivaled within the postwar period, his art has yet to be interpreted by scholars in conjunction with the concept of seriality, perhaps because it so deliberately confounds ou...

conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: November 11, 2015
venue: Orpheus Institute, Penthouse
format: in words
practice: image
keywords: becoming, drawing, painting, printmaking, resistance, Richard Tuttle, sculpture, series