LAUNCH EVENT WITH FRANCO BERARDI
Friday, February 9th, 2007
15.00 - 18.00
Deptford Town Hall, Room 110
To launch the Micropolitics research strand of the Department of
Visual Arts' PoCA group [Political Currency of Art], Susan Kelly,
Valeria Graziano and Janna Graham will interview Franco Berardi
about his work with Radio Alice (1976-1978), A/Traverso (1975-1981)
and his research with Felix Guattari in the field of schizoanalysis.
Franco Bifo Berardi is a philosopher, cultural theorist and
political and media activist. Berardi was a key figure in Italy's
first free radio station (Radio Alice) and the magazine A/traverso
which he founded in 1975. Like many others involved with the
Autonomia movement in Italy in the 1970s, Berardi fled to Paris,
where he worked with Felix Guattari in the field of schizoanalysis.
During the 1980s he contributed to Semiotexte (NY), Chimeree
(Paris), Metropoli (Rome) and Musica 80 (Milan). In the 1990s he
published Mtuazione e Ciberpunk (Genoa, 1993), Cobernauti (Rome,
1994) and Felix (Rome, 2001). See below for links.
The Micropolitics Strand of PoCA (The Political Currency of Art
group) investigates the forces and procedures that entangle
artistic production and the flexible subjectivities of its
producers into the fabric of late capitalism. The prefix micro does
not indicate 'small' or 'mere'. Nor does it assume a belief in the
revolutionary potential of everyday life, or indicate a retreat
into the inner life of the subject. Rather, it is invoked to access
the registers of desire, vulnerability, affect and subjective
implication that generate both artistic practices and the
collective engines of cognitive capitalism. If current regimes of
cultural and cognitive capitalism are predicated on subjective
forces, on the collective production of knowledge and surplus
creativity, how can artists begin to distinguish, let alone imagine
a practice that does not merely feed and replicate the machine
itself? How can art practices that in Suely Rolnik's words bring
'mutations of the sensible' into the realm of the visible or
speakable, refuse or exit the limited field of possibility
inscribed by late capitalism? Finally, if it is the very regimes of
cognitive capitalism that not only capture but also produce
flexible, creative subjectivities, how could we imagine a
micropolitics of subjectivation? The research of the group will
evolve from these core questions and will aim to investigate them
through (a) theoretical analysis (b) the analysis of concrete
situations of existing practice (c) the production of events and
exhibitions.
--
The world is made up of stories, not atoms
Muriel Rukeyser
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