Bodies for a Molecular Revolution
“Molecular revolution … movements that elude the dominant means of identification, that produce their own referential axes, that are interlinked by their own underground and transversal connections, and consequently undermine traditional production relations, traditional social and family systems, traditional attitudes to the body, to sex, to the universe.” -Felix Guattari, Molecular Revolution: Psychiatry and Politics
WHAT
We participate daily in the disciplining of our bodies, our actions, and even our thoughts to paradigms that serve existing power structures, inequalities, and the politico-economic status quo. This workshop focuses on developing an embodied and creative approach to resisting the roles, identities, and modes of relation imposed upon us, including those typically associated with those avenues for political resistance deemed relatively acceptable by these systems of social control.
Against the backdrop of a continuously emerging collective capitalist subjectivity Felix Guattari proposes a threefold ecological/molecular praxis: one that re-constitutes our relations with each other and with what we construct and experience as society, one that re-produces new body-mind becomings, and one that re-establihses new ways of relating to our environments. Building on this molecular praxis Bodies for a Molecular Revolution produces body-minds that relate with others, themselves and their environments in yet-to-come ways.
WHEN
February 9th from 14:00-17:00
WHERE
Embros Theatre, Riga Palamidou 2, Athens
WITH
Daniel Dilliplane is a scholar, teacher, and theatre practitioner focused on the intersection of performance, politics, and social theory. He studies activism, social movements, and performance practice. He is also a Theatre of the Oppressed and Interplay practitioner.
Christina Banalopoulou is an independent scholar, movement practitioner and performer researching the interconnections between performance and philosophy. She practices the somatic techniques of Irmgard Bartenieff, Body-Mind Centering and Rudolf Laban.
WHO
Anyone who wants to explore and experiment with the revolutionary capacities of their bodies both singularly and collectively.
WHY
Responding to Guattari’s call for a molecular revolution in his philosophical writings, Bodies for a Molecular Revolution combines the somatic focus of Bartenieff, BMC and Laban’s works with the TOP and Interplay’s emphasis on relationality and change in order to map new ways of relating through experimenting with new ways of living and experiencing our bodies.