Date and location

from November 9, 2015 until November 11, 2015
Orpheus Institute / De Bijloke Music Centre / Sphinx Cinema

DARE 2015: The Dark Precursor

Eventfrom November 9, 2015 until November 11, 2015

International Conference on Deleuze and Artistic Research 2015

DARE 2015 – The Dark Precursor - is the first international conference entirely dedicated to the relation between artistic research and French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. The three-day will feature both artistic presentations and scholarly papers that investigate this relation.

Choosing as its title the concept of ‘dark precursor,’ the conference reflects the duality and openness inherent to artistic research. Deleuze appropriated this expression from meteorology, where it designates a stage in a cloud-to-ground lightning sequence. The notion of the dark precursor concerns the question of how a communication between heterogeneous systems, ‘of couplings and resonance,’ occurs without being predetermined. In relation to artistic research we ask how to compose these resonances, how to create new couplings that are not accidental but rigorous and at the same time indeterminate. How to create in the midst of a primordial difference?

The philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and/or Félix Guattari acts as a key reference for many artist-researchers, who engage with knowledge across academic and non-academic fields of practice.

At the same time, the term artistic research remains suspended in its definition in order to highlight immanent modes of knowledge creation. The extent and depth of Deleuze’s influence on this emerging field is largely unchartered, nor has his philosophy been evaluated from the perspective of artists who work at the borders of philosophy.

Invited presentations

Éric Alliez, Kingston University, United Kingdom
Ian Buchanan, University of Wollongong, Australia
Julien Bruneau, choreographer and dancer, Brussels, Belgium
Edward Campbell, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Marcel Cobussen, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
Brian Hulse, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA, United States
Susanne Granzer & Arno Böhler, University of Vienna, Austria
Bernhard Lang, composer and musician, Vienna, Austria
Erin Manning, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Marc Ngui, independent visual artist, Toronto, Canada
Taina Riikonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Anne Sauvagnargues, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, France
Martin Scherzinger, New York University, United States
Peter Stamer, independent theatre maker, Berlin, Germany
Mick Wilson, Valand Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden

Editorial board

Paulo de Assis (Chair), Orpheus Institute, Ghent, Belgium
Arno Böhler, University of Vienna, Austria
Henk Borgdorff, University of the Arts, The Hague, The Netherlands
Christoph Brunner, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
Kathleen Coessens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Laura Cull, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
Mika Elo, University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland
Paolo Giudici, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
Julian Klein, Institut für künstlerische Forschung, Berlin, Germany
David Savat, executive editor of the Deleuze Studies Journal
Michael Schwab, editor in chief of the Journal for Artistic Research
Kamini Vellodi, Central Saint Martins, London, United Kingdom