2010 BEING MOVED: DESIRE AND AFFECT / a lecture by Marie-Luise Angerer / curated by If I Can't Dance I Don't Want To Be Part Of your Revolution for DAI/ hosted by the Rijksmuseum Twenthe

(bio) Marie-Luise Angerer is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the Art Academy of Media, Cologne.From 2007 - 09 she was the head of the Academy. 

The lecture takes place in the framework of the research project 'Affectionately Yours', that If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution is curating at the Dutch Art Institute together with tutors Phil Collins and Hito Steyerl. In her lecture 'Being Moved: Desire and Affect', Marie-Luise Angerer argues that affect functions as bridging matter and performativity, and matter has taken over the position of the subject. Therefore - to perform - not only refers any longer to human beings but includes matter and other species as well.

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ABSTRACT BEING MOVED: DESIRE AND AFFECT 

During the last decade affect, performativity and matter have played a major role within art, media and theory production. One could argue that affect functions as bridging matter and performativity, and matter has taken over the position of the subject. Therefore »to perform« not only refers any longer to human beings but includes matter and other species as well.  Whereas the subject of the unconscious (as in psychoanalysis) is defined as desiring its endlessly postponed idealized Ego the new category of »shifting species« performs matter and is moved by matter. The lecture takes place in the framework of the research project 'Affectionately Yours', that If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution is curating at the Dutch Art Institute together with tutors Phil Collins and Hito Steyerl.

Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Lasondersingel 129-131, Enschede http://www.rijksmuseumtwenthe.nl/