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bUG theory
Het Interdisciplinair Instituut aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam Filosoof Robin Brouwer en Proffesor Drs. Sorin Alexandrescu zijn beide werkzaam als docent aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam aan de Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen. Sinds 1996 verzorgen zij jaarlijks, in het kader van het onderwijsprogramma semiotiek van deze faculteit, colleges die betrekking hebben op de filosofie van Gilles Deleuze en Félix Guatarri. Robin Brouwer heeft in 1998 het initiatief genomen tot de oprichting van een Interdiciplinair Instituut. In het verlengde van de filosofie van Deleuze/Guattari richten de activiteiten zich op het verbinden van contemporaine theorievorming met actuele ontwikkelingen in de beeldende kunst, architectuur en theater. Omdat de receptie van de filosofie van Deleuze/Guatarri binnen de kunstwereld actueel is en leidt tot toepassingsmogelijkheden binnen de huidige kunstpraktijk, is besloten om aan deze bestaande cross-overs tussen theoretische verwerking van deze filosofie en de concrete toepassing daarvan meer aandacht te besteden. Choreografen/dansers, architekten en beeldend kunstenaars zullen hun werk op deze drie samenkomsten presenteren. In februari en maart 1999 zullen er aan de UVA drie samenkomsten plaatsvinden die betrekking heben op deze thematiek. Robin Brouwer Sorin Alexandrescu Amsterdam, januari 1999.
We suggest you print out these texts for compfortable reading. Robin Brouwer
bUG lounge 20.12.98 At the
Badcuyp, 14.04.99, Lezing, robin Brouwer Introductie
bij tekst Nomadic Dialogues for HTV De IJsberg. Contemporary
culture is witnessing a broad variety of different styles, ideas and
activities. Among these developments a new way of thinking and experience
is growing. Although it is very difficult to define this new mentality,
`nomadism' can be a name for it. The concept of nomadism isn't new.
In the early eigthties nomadism was associated with the squater movement
and represented a corresponding alternative lifestyle. The current developments
have a completely different character. Instead of being rigid and isolated
in certain cultural territories, instead of having a fixed social setting
and clear defined political goals, the present nomadic developments
are engaged in very different social and cultural layers. Instead of
operating on a macro level on which political differences are based
on polarization, contemporary nomadism is functioning on a micro level
of multiple and changing coordinates. It can be seen as a dynamic. A
moving in the `in-between' among the existing territories, cultural
and social identities and institutional boundaries. Within the world
of architects, writers, artists and netsurfers we are witnessing this
low profile activity. What these people have in common is the need to
leave habitual domains like professional standards and hierarchies,
fixed social arrangements (lifestyles, relationships), domestical patterns,
psychological conditions (ego, identity, sexual difference) and institutional
organisation. Instead of proclaiming the grand refusal against society
and thereby reducing it's mobility, the present mentality generates
a powerful and productive energy. The nomad is a traveller, connecting
with many singular experiences, perspectives and ideas, operating on
a small scale in the margins everywhere in our society. This new mentality
strives for action, for connections of differences beyond the realm
of representation and meaning. Present nomadism has been influenced
by postmodernism. Certain aspects like heterogenity and multiplicity
refer to a postmodern heritage. However, the micropoliticical awareness
of the present mentality shows a break with the political naivety of
postmodernism. Nomadism requires a combination of an experimental `elan
vital' with a pragmatic ethics. To be able to move in between territories,
identities and dominant meaning, one has to navigate in order to escape
coding, representation and organisation, which are imposed on us every
day. Dominant forms of representation, within arts, science, economy
and media, constitute the present forms of production within every domain
of our society. Nomadism expresses a sensibility and practical logic
to mutate and therefor escape these boundaries. It is this micropolitical
mentality which differs nomadism from the current postmodern tendencies
which seem to have degenerated into a blind affirmation of our western
culture. This mentality is foremost a practice experienced by people
who operate within the fields of art, science, music, media and management.
Their individual conditions and singular experiences define the different
manuals, tools and coordinates suitable for these activities.
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