»A Carnival of Entanglement«
Visual Cultures Lecture Series
January 25th, 2018
Royal College of Art Battersea, london
with Leo Costner / Amir George / Manu Luksch / Martin Reinhart / UBERMORGEN Organised by: Johnny Golding, Aura Satz, Margarita Gluzberg, Nigel Rolfe Entanglement Research Group (RCA) We will commence the Entanglement in the New Year 2018 with Foucault’s The Courage of Truth read with and against Bataille’s Meditations and Haraway’s Tentacular Thinking All work(s) will be discussed / voiced / heard / exchanged bearing in mind a few interlocutors: Friedrich Nietzsche, Isabelle Stengers, Karen Barad, Benoit Mandelbrot, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Søren Kierkegaard, Kathy Acker, Euripides, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, J-F Lyotard, RAW, Wittgenstein, Angela Davis. Research Tutor: Johnny Golding with Aura Satz, Nigel Rolfe, Sarah Jones and Margarita Gluzberg. Honorary Post-docs: Alberto Condotta, Fani Cettl, Jakub Ceglarz and Mattia Paganelli.
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.