Massumi The intensity of experience

‘With the body, the “walls” are the sensory surfaces. The intensity is experience. The emptiness or in-betweenness filled by experience is the incorporeal dimension of the body referred to earlier. The conversion of surface distance into intensity is also the conversion of the materiality of the body into an event. It is a relay between its corporeal and incorporeal dimensions. This is not yet a subject. But it may well be the conditions of emergence of a subject: an incipient subjectivity. Call it a “self-.”’

Massumi on Body and its indeterminacy (or openness)

‘The charge of indeterminacy carried by a body is inseparable from it. It strictly coincides with it, to the extent that the body is in passage or in process (to the extent that it is dynamic and alive). But the charge is not itself corporeal. Far from regaining a concreteness, to think the body in movement thus means accepting the paradox that there is an incorporeal dimension of the body. Of it, but not it. Real, material, but incorporeal. Inseparable, coincident, but disjunct.’

Prep for Archipelago

Prep for Archipelago

My piece for Archipelago show

My contribution to the Archipelago show has hit not one, but at least five icebergs: no studio/no dancers/no equipment/no software and no idea how the materials take on the projection. Still...the experiments look good (ish).

Archipelago show open

Archipelago show opened on Tuesday 17th of January. Lots of intriguing and beautiful work on display, supported with discussions every Wednesday when the media exhibits change over. The link for all the work and debate sessions: http://www.ntu.ac.uk/art/document_uploads/117053.pdf