See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299860707 Deleuze and Guattari and Contemporary Art Chapter · June 2010 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748638376.003.0001 CITATIONS READS 9 404 2 authors, including: Stephen Zepke Independent Researcher, Vienna 29 PUBLICATIONS 105 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE All content following this page was uploaded by Stephen Zepke on 10 April 2020. The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. and Deleuze DELEUZE CONNECTIONS Edited by Stephen Zepke and Simon O’Sullivan Contemporary Art Contemporary Deleuze and Contemporary Art Edited by Zepke and O’Sullivan Edinburgh e and Deleuz y. Containing insert barcode Deleuze, Guattari and ea of enquir w ar ‘and’ of the book’s title. ‘and’ of the book’s (2008).Visual in Simon O’Sullivan is a Senior Lecturer ork at the cutting edge of this ne addresses these questions in presenting a series of experimental these questions in presenting addresses and Contemporary Art and Contemporary e inflections on the s thought? What are its limits and its possibilities? What are s thought? Cover design:Cover Design, River Edinburgh ISBN 978 0 7486 3838 3 www.euppublishing.com EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS 22 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LF Contemporary Art Cultures at Goldsmiths,Cultures of London. University Michel Foucault once suggested that the twentieth century as be known once suggested that the twentieth would Michel Foucault ‘Deleuzian’; certainly, in the field of contemporary art, to appears this prediction been accurate.have But what, might ask, we up of Deleuze in this take is at stake and Guattari’ the Production of the New of the New the Production and explorativ ‘aesthetic the political and the expanded address those who explicitly From paradigm’ of art practice today, concerned with specific scenes and to those more the question of technology to art,encounters or who rethink in relation this collection contains w Stephen Zepke is an independent researcher.They co-edited is an independent researcher.They Stephen Zepke essays by philosophers and artists, by essays Anglo- outside the as writers from as well American world, – an intervention in transversality this collection is an exercise into the field of Deleuze and Guattari Studies and contemporary art. Deleuze Edited by Stephen Zepke and Simon O’Sullivan DELEUZE CONNECTIONS Series Editor: Ian Buchanan i Deleuze and Contemporary Art MM21472147 - OO'SULLIVAN'SULLIVAN PPRINT.inddRINT.indd i 114/4/104/4/10 114:09:594:09:59 Deleuze Connections ‘It is not the elements or the sets which defi ne the multiplicity. What defi nes it is the AND, as something which has its place between the elements or between the sets. AND, AND, AND – stammering.’ Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, Dialogues General Editor Ian Buchanan Editorial Advisory Board Keith Ansell-Pearson Gregg Lambert Rosi Braidotti Adrian Parr Claire Colebrook Paul Patton Tom Conley Patricia Pisters Titles Available in the Series Ian Buchanan and Claire Colebrook (eds), Deleuze and Feminist Theory Ian Buchanan and John Marks (eds), Deleuze and Literature Mark Bonta and John Protevi (eds), Deleuze and Geophilosophy Ian Buchanan and Marcel Swiboda (eds), Deleuze and Music Ian Buchanan and Gregg Lambert (eds), Deleuze and Space Martin Fuglsang and Bent Meier Sørensen (eds), Deleuze and the Social Ian Buchanan and Adrian Parr (eds), Deleuze and the Contemporary World Constantin V. Boundas (ed.), Deleuze and Philosophy Ian Buchanan and Nicholas Thoburn (eds), Deleuze and Politics Chrysanthi Nigianni and Merl Storr (eds), Deleuze and Queer Theory Jeffrey A. Bell and Claire Colebrook (eds), Deleuze and History Laura Cull (ed.), Deleuze and Performance Mark Poster and David Savat (eds), Deleuze and New Technology Simone Bignall and Paul Patton (eds), Deleuze and the Postcolonial Forthcoming Titles in the Series Laura Guillaume and Joe Hughes (eds), Deleuze and the Body MM21472147 - OO'SULLIVAN'SULLIVAN PPRINT.inddRINT.indd iiii 114/4/104/4/10 114:09:594:09:59 iii Deleuze and Contemporary Art Edited by Stephen Zepke and Simon O’Sullivan Edinburgh University Press MM21472147 - OO'SULLIVAN'SULLIVAN PPRINT.inddRINT.indd iiiiii 114/4/104/4/10 114:09:594:09:59 © in this edition, Edinburgh University Press, 2010 © in the individual contributions is retained by the authors Edinburgh University Press Ltd 22 George Square, Edinburgh www.euppublishing.com Typeset in 10.5/13 Sabon by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire, and printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham and Eastbourne A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 0 7486 3837 6 (hardback) ISBN 978 0 7486 3838 3 (paperback) The right of Stephen Zepke and Simon O’Sullivan to be identifi ed as authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. MM21472147 - OO'SULLIVAN'SULLIVAN PPRINT.inddRINT.indd iivv 114/4/104/4/10 114:09:594:09:59 Contents v Contents Acknowledgements vii List of Illustrations viii Introduction: Deleuze and Guattari and Contemporary Art 1 Stephen Zepke and Simon O’Sullivan POLITICS 13 1 The Politics of the Scream in a Threnody 15 Gustavo Chirolla Ospina 2 A Shift Towards the Unnameable 34 Suely Rolnik 3 The Heterogenesis of Fleeing 43 Gerald Raunig 4 Anita Fricek: Contemporary Painting as Institutional Critique 63 Stephen Zepke THE AESTHETIC PARADIGM 83 5 Capitalism and Schizophrenia and Consensus: Of Relational Aesthetics 85 Eric Alliez 6 The Practice and Anti- Dialectical Thought of an ‘Anartist’ 100 Maurizio Lazzarato 7 Ethologies of Software Art: What Can a Digital Body of Code Do? 116 Jussi Parikka MM21472147 - OO'SULLIVAN'SULLIVAN PPRINT.inddRINT.indd v 114/4/104/4/10 114:09:594:09:59 vi Contents 8 Fractal Philosophy (And the Small Matter of Learning How to Listen): Attunement as the Task of Art 133 Johnny Golding SCENES AND ENCOUNTERS 155 9 An Art Scene as Big as the Ritz: The Logic of Scenes 157 David Burrows 10 Abstract Humour, Humorous Abstraction 176 Robert Garnett 11 From Aesthetics to the Abstract Machine: Deleuze, Guattari and Contemporary Art Practice 189 Simon O’Sullivan 12 Traps Against Capture 208 Edgar Schmitz TECHNOLOGIES 225 13 Sign and Information: On Anestis Logothetis’ Graphical Notations 227 Claudia Mongini 14 Anti- Electra: Totemism and Schizogamy 246 Elisabeth von Samsonow 15 Unimaginable Happenings: Material Movements in the Plane of Composition 266 Barbara Bolt 16 BLOODCRYSTALPOLLENSTAR 286 Neil Chapman and Ola Stahl Notes on Contributors 310 Index 317 MM21472147 - OO'SULLIVAN'SULLIVAN PPRINT.inddRINT.indd vvii 114/4/104/4/10 114:09:594:09:59 vviiii Acknowledgements The editors would especially like to thank all those who gave their labour to this project for free, most notably the contributors, and the translators Juan Fernando Mejía Mosquera, Tim Adams, Robin Mackay, Victor Faessel and Brian Holmes. We would also like to thank Anita Fricek, Leonardo Kovacˇevic´, Tom Medak, Petar Milat, Hannah Neighbour, Ralph Paine, Nick Thoburn and Carol Macdonald at EUP. MM21472147 - OO'SULLIVAN'SULLIVAN PPRINT.inddRINT.indd vviiii 114/4/104/4/10 114:09:594:09:59 viii List of Illustrations 1.1: Clemencia Echeverri, Treno. Multiscreen projection in the Actos del Habla exhibition, Art Museum of the National University, Bogota, Colombia, 2009. Image courtesy of the artist. 17 1.2: Clemencia Echeverri, Treno. Two- screen projection, Alonso Garces Gallery exhibition, Bogota, Colombia, 2007. Image courtesy of the artist. 20 1.3: Clemencia Echeverri, Treno. Photograph of the Cauca River. 0.90 × 0.69 m. 2008. Image courtesy of the artist. 27 1.4: Clemencia Echeverri, Treno. Multiscreen projection in the Actos del Habla exhibition, Art Museum of the National University, Bogota, Colombia, 2009. Image courtesy of the artist. 31 3.1: Marcelo Expósito, video still from The Year in Which the Future Ended (Began), 12 min., 2007. Image courtesy of the artist. 49 3.2: Marcelo Expósito, video still from First of May (the City- Factory), 62 min., 2004. Image courtesy of the artist. 60 4.1: Anita Fricek, Day Room, The Girls’ Dance (from a still from the TV fi lm ‘Bambule’, Ulrike Meinhof/Eberhard Itzenplitz, BRD 1970), oil on canvas, 195 × 155 cm, 2005. Photo: Michael Nagl. Image courtesy of the artist. 67 MM21472147 - OO'SULLIVAN'SULLIVAN PPRINT.inddRINT.indd vviiiiii 114/4/104/4/10 114:09:594:09:59 List of Illustrations ix 4.2: Anita Fricek, Butterfl y Girl, oil on canvas, 150 × 190 cm, 2002. Photo: Michael Nagl. Image courtesy of the artist. 69 4.3: Anita Fricek, Zéro de Conduite 1933 (Abstraction Machine – Re- entering the Abstraction), oil on canvas, 195 × 260 cm, 2005. Photo: Michael Nagl. Image courtesy of the artist. 71 4.4: Anita Fricek, Kindergarten 1978 (The radical girlie perspective), oil on canvas, 200 × 200 cm, 2006. Photo: Michael Nagl. Image courtesy of the artist. 73 4.5: Anita Fricek, White Cube Rush – Dancing the White Cube, oil on canvas, woollen yarn, each 250 × 200 cm, 2005. Photo: Michael Nagl. Image courtesy of the artist. 77 7.1: GWEI Diagram. Online at: http://gwei.org/pages/diagram/ diagram.html 127 Reproduced courtesy of Paolo Cirio. 8.1: Vincent van Gogh, Self- Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin, 1888; oil on canvas, 60.5 × 49.4 cm. Fogg Art Museum, Bequest from the Collection of Maurice Wertheim, Class of 1906, 1951.65. Copyright of photo: Katya Kallsen © President and Fellows of Harvard College. 133 8.2: Vincent van Gogh, Self- Portrait with Bandaged Ear, Arles, January 1889; oil on canvas, 60 × 49 cm. The Courtauld Institute Galleries. Image courtesy of The Samuel Courtauld Trust, Courtauld Gallery, London. 133 8.3: Vincent van Gogh, (Self- Portrait?) The Sunfl owers (detail), 1888; replica (also by Van Gogh), January 1889, oil on canvas, 21 × 73 cm, © The National Gallery, London.