blown up!

blown up !
an eventwork by Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson

blown up ! is an eventwork, mapping an investigation at once philosophical, cinematic and relational. In a manner similar to Antonioni’s film Blow-Up which follows a photographer’s quest to locate a body in a London park from a blow-up of a snapshot he has taken, Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson explored 1970s video footage of Gilles Deleuze’s courses at the University of Vincennes to locate participants in the seminar who then became collaborators in their film, Facs of Life. But blown up ! equally derives from an explosion, recomposing scattered shards of a political moment, a research process, a corpus of images, voices and concepts, within the framework of a temporary autonomous classroom that exhorts us to “make rhizomes, not roots, never plant ! Don’t sow grow offshoots ! Don’t be one or multiple, be multiplicities. Run lines, never plot a point !”

Mains d'Oeuvres, Saint-Ouen (Paris)

The temporary Autonomous Classroom

Sunday 29 november 2009 from 12 to 24
Mille Plateaux Associés ; Thomas Hirschhorn (Deleuze Monument) ; Jean-Jacques Lebel (Monument à Félix Guattari) ; Jochen Dehn, Pascale Criton ; Daniel Deshays ; Dork Zabunyan ; Anne Querrien , Brian Holmes, Anne Sauvagnargues ; Nicolas Gerber ; Généviève Schwoebel & Les Femmes Assises.

Saturday 5 december 2009 from 16 to 22
Anouck Durand-Gasselin ; Julien Bancilhon ; Bruno Jouhet & Cecile Duval ; Seijiro Murayama ; Le peuple qui manque & Violeta Salvatierra (Min Tanaka à la Borde) ; Olivier Apprill ; Yolande Finkelstajin.

Sunday 13 december 2009 from 12 to 24
Jalal Toufic (Saving Face) ; Société réaliste ; Ali Akay ; Otolith group (Otolith I) ; Walid Raad ; Benjamin Thigpen ; Robert Albouker ; Manon De Boer (Resonating Surfaces) ; folksonomy ; terminal beach (FREEZE-OUT).

1, rue Charles Garnier
93 400 Saint-Ouen