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3rd international conference on Deleuze and Artistic REsearch

ANNEGhent,
Orpheus Institute, SAUVAGNARGUES
Belgium 9 – 11 December 2019

Paris Nanterre University, FR

BARBARA GLOWCZEWSKI

National Scientific Research Center (CNRS), FR

DAVID SAVAT

University of Western Australia, Perth, AU

EDWARD CAMPBELL

University of Aberdeen, UK

GEORGE E. LEWIS

Columbia University, US-NY

IAN BUCHANAN

University of Wollongong, AU

JOSÉ GIL

New University of Lisbon, PT

PETER PÁL PELBART

Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, BR

THOMAS NAIL
 University of Colorado, US-CO

YUK HUI

Leuphana University of Lüneburg, DE

Call for Proposals

In the last decades, the concept of assemblage has emerged as a
central tool for addressing problems of stability, instability,
determination, and transformations regarding social, political,
economic, philosophical, and aesthetic phenomena. Coined by Deleuze
and Guattari in their joint book on Kafka (1975), and further expanded
in A Thousand Plateaus in relation to different fields of knowledge,
human practices, and nonhuman arrangements, assemblage is
variously applied today in the arts, in human and in social sciences,
under different labels (assemblage theory, logic of assemblage, actor-
network theory) that more or less explicitly refer back to Deleuze and
Guattari’s foundational concept of agencement.

After The Dark Precursor and Aberrant Nuptials, Assemblages (in its two
inseparable manifestations as “machinic assemblages of desire” and
“collective assemblages of enunciation”) is the theme of the third
international conference on Deleuze and Artistic Research (DARE), to be
held in Ghent (BE) at the Orpheus Institute, December 9-11, 2019.

Using Man Ray’s DANGER/DANCER. L’Impossibilité (1917 – 1920) as its

visual cue, the conference refers back to Guattari’s seminal example of
artistic and literary assemblages (1973). On one side, the machine
depicted by Man Ray cannot execute the movement of the Spanish
dancer it is supposed to represent, and on the other, “this machine
component can only be a dancer”. DANCER/DANGER is a non-functioning
machine as its cogwheels and pinion racks are unable to operate and,
at the same time, it is an elaborated depiction of a complex gearing
system, suggesting creative modes of com-possibility.

Particularly focusing on the concept’s use, translation, and

appropriation for music and the arts DARE 2019 invites artistic and/or
scholarly presentations that discuss and challenge existing
assemblages, or that propose new ones.

Questions addressed may, for instance, include:

Which bodies, regimes of bodies, actions, or intra-actions can we

identify and use in the arts? Which expressive acts, statements,
regimes of signs, enunciations?

How does a logic of assemblage relate to the current aesthetico-

 epistemic regime?

How does digital and post-conceptual art relate to Deleuze and

Guattari’s notions that were born in an analogue world?

How is it possible today, within the complexity and acceleration of a

hyper-connected society, to detect the imperceptible movements of
an assemblage before they are actualised?

How to expose them in intensive critical actualisations and create

new modes of expression?

How to reveal the interstices, or indeed how to produce unforeseen

cracks, inconsistencies, and lines of flight within existing, ever-
changing assemblages?

Proposals for standard presentations should be for 30 minutes slots

(20 min + 10 min Q&A with/out audiovisuals) while proposals for artistic
presentations may vary in duration and will be considered on a case-
by-case basis. Besides making sure that all presentations meet the
academic standards of the conference and its publications, reviewers
will especially evaluate whether the presentation is pertinent to the
conference topic, whether Deleuze (and his world, including recent
developments and additions to it) is integral to the presentation, and
whether the presentation is relevant to artistic research or art practice.

The deadline for submissions is

Sunday, 5 May 2019
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FILM NIGHT

A Deleuzoguattarian film festival curated by

TERO NAUHA

University of the Arts Helsinki, FI

DARE Conferences
Chair
Paulo de Assis, Orpheus Institute, Ghent, BE

Coordinator
Paolo Giudici, Royal College of Art, London, UK

Advisory Board
Zsuzsa Baross, Trent University, Peterborough, CA
Arno Böhler, University of Vienna, AT
Henk Borgdorff, University of the Arts, The Hague, NL
Kathleen Coessens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE
Laura Cull, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
Lucia D’Errico, Orpheus Institute, Ghent, BE
Mika Elo, University of the Arts, Helsinki, FI
Julian Klein, Institut für künstlerische Forschung, Berlin, DE
Tero Nauha, University of the Arts, Helsinki, FI
David Savat, Deleuze and Guattari Studies Journal executive editor
Michael Schwab, Journal for Artistic Research editor in chief
Kamini Vellodi, University of Edinburgh, UK

Organising Team
Gilles Anquez, Juan Parra Cancino, Daniela Fantechi, Daphne Ronse, Kathleen
Snyers, Heike Vermeire

Orpheus Institute
Director
Peter Dejans

Steering Committee
Jonathan Impett, Director of Research
Paulo de Assis
Tom Beghin
Catherine Laws
Luk Vaes
Peter Dejans

Research Advisory Council

Jo Bury, chair
Corina Caduff
Dame Janet Ritterman
Andreas De Leenheer
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deadline for proposal submission

May 5, 2019

conference day 1
December 9, 2019
Orpheus Institute, Korte Meer 12, 9000 Gent, Belgium

conference day 2
December 10, 2019
Orpheus Institute, Korte Meer 12, 9000 Gent, Belgium

conference day 3
December 11, 2019
Orpheus Institute, Korte Meer 12, 9000 Gent, Belgium

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