Visual Cultures Lecture Series
Entanglement Research Group
january 29th, 2019
Royal College of Art Battersea, London
»Entanglement: The Opera« is a homage to Kurt Weill’s recently found anti-fascist composition »Song of the White Cheese«. it features PhD students Chang and Dave J playing cello and piano, accompanied by MA student Julia Wolf singing alternatively in German, English, Chinese, Russian and Spanish. Research students will be involved alongside guest speakers including: Manu Luksch, Anat Ben-David, Martin Reinhart, Gerald Nestler, and keynote Dr Sara Diamond. Entanglement enables (or will try to enable) a new form of contemporary art, philosophy/erotic praxis, poetics and the logics of sense we call ‘inhabited philosophy’. Entanglement seeks to establish a kind of ‘lab’, a weekly experimental site foregrounding one’s artphilosophyvoicetonguequantumphysicswork through the strange visceral economies of what constitutes an ‘is’ (or even the is):
the petrol-sphere ⇌ augmented reality ⇌ derivatives ⇌ erotic praxis ⇌ deep listening ⇌ attunement ⇌ logic of the senses ⇌ trembling ⇌ flows ⇌ patterns ⇌ hungers ⇌ curiosities ⇌ violences ⇌ smell ⇌ libidinal skin⇌ exquisite methods ⇌ trans-materialities ⇌ queer borders ⇌ salt water ⇌ drone warfare⇌ parrhesia ⇌ alchemy ⇌ groundless ⇌ ground ⇌ swells ⇌ blood poetics ⇌ radical matter ⇌ curved time ⇌ atmosphere ⇌ loneliness ⇌ super-positionality ⇌ ones and zeroes ⇌ body without organs⇌ body with organs ⇌ quantum consciousness⇌ encounters ⇌ air ⇌ 4thdimension ⇌ zero ⇌ morphogenesis ⇌ genitalia ⇌ magic ⇌transubstantiation of the senses ⇌ anger ⇌ artificial intelligence ⇌ dirty media ⇌ improv ⇌ submission ⇌ belonging ⇌ bots ⇌ difference ⇌ libidinal ⇌ octopus, squid and other alien creatures ⇌ spells ⇌ cosmopolitics ⇌ gut feeling ⇌ quantum physics ⇌ simultaneity ⇌ anthropocene ⇌ friendship ⇌ non-monogamy ⇌ boxing ⇌stuttering ⇌ lovers ⇌ ontological nothingness ⇌ ontological somethingness ⇌ non-locality ⇌ boredom ⇌ super-positionality ⇌ laughter ⇌ monad ⇌ black matter ⇌ event ⇌ inhabited philosophy.
