Fractal Philosophy (and the small matter of learning how to listen): Attunment as the Task of Art

published in S. O'Sullivan & S. Zepke, Deleuze and Art (Edinburgh, 2009 - Forthcoming Sept)

Moving the logic of senses to its next incarnation: as a 'fractal philosophy', the condition of art practice/production is re-staged as a post-metaphysical, and with it, a post-postmodern aesthetic.  This paper introduces the view that the plane of immanence [0] + the refrain [1], no longer contextualise a uni-versal, but rather establish the multiversal -- assemblages that, when taken together, form a picture of what it means/is 'to be' without lapsing into Hegelian frameworks or other forms of representational thinking.    It is a form of listening, an erotic 'attunement' -- the very task of art.

to tremble the ejaculate

The Big Magazine (Amsterdam, 2008); republished from Cyborg n/z (Vienna, 1999).

johnny de philo slips into the punk pukka of dandy-dust aesthetics. review of the cult film Dandy Dust (Hans Scheirl, 1998). not for the meek.

H_O_U_S_I_N_G

Lieven de Boeck, author

In his gently assertive and deeply provocative way, Lieven de Boeck - artist, architect, curio - has created a moveable feast on the question of home, housing, urbanity, city-scape, promiscuity, big brother. He invited into this housing project a few writers, a philosopher,  a poet and an interloper.  Guess who was lucky enough to be the latter, interspersing her coughs throughout his politically astute testament on the architectonics of our times.

Raw(hide): World War IV, Part 3, the Sequel

Positions 13: 1, Duke University Press: 2005

Melancholic and sickly, this is a tirade -- a manifesto --  on the political eventness the event called 'en passant', the subtle move of pawn capturing king.  Of course the question remains: who is pawn, and with it, who is king (but, then if you're asking that question, it's only the king and his/her army who might be caught unawares who has the power and who does  not. Pawns always know their place, it would seem.  The question becomes, can one emerge out of the binaric divide (friend/enemy, pawn/king) or is this pathway only open to those artists and mid-class chess moves who defy the odds (and thus create new ones). Not just a 21st century issue.

Conversion on the Road to Damascus (2): Minority Report on The Political (or how to have an adventure after Metaphysics)

Installed at the Critical Digital Studies Workshop, June 4-6, 2009.  We would like to thank Arthur and Marilouise Kroker for inviting us into their extraordinary event – a remarkable journey through and amongst the Code Drift.  The first version: presented at, and later published in, the Conference Proceedings: The European Research Project for Poetics and Hermeneutics: Memory and Interpretation, The Macedonian Academy of Sciences & Arts, Skopje, Macedonia. Subsequent versions  have been installed as part of the Failures Project, Goethe Institute/ Serpentine Gallery and as part of the Body:Gender:Technology, International Symposium at the JFK Institute, The Friei Universitat of Berlin, (by kind invitiation of Prof. Dr Michaela Hampf) and published in R. Garnett & Andrew Hunt, Gest: Laboratory of Synthesis, London: Bookworks, 2008).

Incisive and concentrated aphoristic journey from Hegelian dialectics through the Heideggarian turn, via Nietzsche's 'The Madman' and Godel's uncertainty principles, restaging the political and with it, aesthetics, after Einstein's infamous intervention. Further interrupted by Deleuze&Guattari, the question is thus raised: when is something installed as 'fascistic'? and when can it be otherwise? As Golding states, 'it's a delicate game we are playing, after all'.

Institute for the Converging Arts & Sciences: Launch Programme

October 16-17, 2009 at the Univ of Greenwich 9am-7pm

Admission is Free, but due to demand, attendance is by Ticket only: Please email Gisela Lafico our Research Assistant at ICAS@gre.ac.uk to reserve your place.

Of Clouds and Clocks: When Art met The Web Sciences celebrates the launch of our post-graduate / post-doctoral research Institute for the Converging Arts & Sciences. It will host over 25 speakers/provocateurs from around the world dedicated to the scholarly advancement of the contemporary arts and sciences and the varying landscapes upon which they converge.  The Table begins at 9.am on Friday and ends by 6pm Saturday. 

It will be intense, provocative, playful and extraordinary.  Be there if you can.

Download programme and biographies of the speakers, players, provocateurs below.

Professor Johnny Golding
Director

ICAS - Institute for the Converging Arts & Sciences: General Info

ICAS Launch: International Symposium Of Clocks and Clouds: When Art met the Web-Sciences
The Old Royal Naval College, Univ of Greenwich London, UK
Admission is Free, but due to demand, attendance is by Ticket only: Please email Gisela Lafico our Research Assistant at ICAS@gre.ac.uk to reserve your place.

Of Clouds and Clocks: When Art met The Web Sciences celebrates the launch of our post-graduate / post-doctoral research Institute for the Converging Arts & Sciences. It will host over 25 speakers/provocateurs from around the world dedicated to the scholarly advancement of the contemporary arts and sciences and the varying landscapes upon which they converge.  The Table begins at 9.am on Friday and ends by 6pm Saturday. 

It will be intense, provocative, playful and extraordinary.  Be there if you can.