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Koerper ohne Organe - ein Konzept von Gilles Deleuze und Felix Guattari; engl.: Body Without Organs

Austrian art movement that became widely known in the 1960ies (Guenter Brus, Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch et al.).

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What are your lines? What map are you in the process of making or rearranging? What abstract line will you draw, and at what price, for yourself and for others? What is your line of flight? What is your BwO, merged with that line? Are you cracking up? Are you going to crack up? Are you deterritorializing? (Deleuze, Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus)

These lines are constantly crossing, intersecting for a moment, following one another, thus expressing a certain dynamics of an affair of cartography which composes our map: such is the rhizome which soon becomes the locus of language, a signifier and a structure, another labyrinthian architecture, a burrow which constitutes a Body without Organs (“itself an abstract line with neither imaginary figures nor symbolic functions”).

Criticising the pleasure of “seeing the whole”, a panorama-city as a theoretical visual simulacrum, he turns to the ordinary practitioners of the city: walkers.

The pictorial subjects of the Pieta, the Deposition from the Cross and the Entombment have been looking for a new symbiosis in Sammer’s definitely most intimate image of hope; yet sure enough in the maximal conceivable role reversal that can emanate from trusting and believing spiritual imagination.

The a-chrony, or rather the ‘heterochrony,’ produced between the words and the images, the voice and the machine-sound, with the non-figurative and the figurative images remaining mutually present within one another, is congenial to theatrical attempts in contemporary mise-en-scène to produce apparently empty time.