how we deviate with
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A dialogue between Emily Sweeney and Mariella Greil In the dialogue project How We Deviate With we will dance, talk and write about issues of relationality, choreographic practice and performance, and the immanent potentials inherent in these. We are both dedicated to a collaborative rather than a strictly two-way dialogue. From the beginning, deviations and repetitions have interwoven throughout the texts passed between us until singularities and authorship blur—becoming a Deleuzean line of flight rather than a well-structured argument between two individuals. The links we make occur not so much through the frontal lobe, but rather in the older, more intuitive and motor-sensory parts of our brains; it is these subliminal potentials that this dialogue will explore. These potentials are not (yet) packaged; we are not working from an aesthetic that requires us to tie up our ideas and present them in a frame. Instead, we trust in collaborative practices and the willingness to be lost together, and we promise to have no conclusion before the process, holding onto our senses as tools for sense-making and reflection. So what do we do? In short: we practice what Jean-Luc Nancy theorised—we abundantly deviate from and with.
Visit the entries documenting “How we deviate with”, a dialogue project between Emily Sweeney and Mariella Greil: 30 May 2012 – A Collection of Loose Ends 30 July 2012 – Séances of Absences
This dialogue was commissioned by Performance Matters, a collaboration between Goldsmiths, University of London, University of Roehampton, and the Live Art Development Agency. |