'AFFECTIONATELY YOURS'

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'Affectionately Yours' - SCREENING & LECTURE SERIES, NOV. 2009 until JUne 2010.

LOCATIONS: DUTCH ART INSTITUTE & Rijksmuseum Twente

In the academic year 2009-2010 If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution coordinates a research project at the the Dutch Art Institute/Master Programme/ArtEZ Institute of the Arts on the notion of affect: 'Affectionately Yours'. Tutors Phil Collins and Hito Steyerl are meeting with the DAI master students on a monthly basis in Enschede. The project involves a public moment that takes place in May 2010 at the Polish art centre Wyspa that is located in the grounds of Gdansk's Shipyard. Read more »

As part of the project, three public lectures will take place at the Dutch Art Institute. Speakers are Hito Steyerl; Marie Luise Angerer, author of "Vom Begehren nach dem Affekt" (2007) and Professor of Gender and Media at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne; and Thomas Elsaesser, Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

The theme of affect can be read in the light of If I Can’t Dance...'s continuing exploration, since its inception, of certain intellectual paradigms such as theatricality, feminism(s) and performativity. What interests us in this notion of affect is well articulated philsopher Brain Massumi, who says: "In my work I use the concept of 'affect' as a way of talking about the 'where we might be able to go and what we might be able to do' in every present situation. One of the reasons it’s such an important concept for me is because it explains why focusing on the next experimental step rather than the big utopian picture isn’t really settling for less. It's not exactly going for more, either. It’s more like being right where you are - more intensely.'

INTRODUCTION - 7 & 8/10/2009

Introduction by Phil Collins, Maaike Gouwenberg and Tanja Baudoin

PHIL COLLINS - 11 & 12/11/2009
Workshop session with Phil Collins. Reading material: Michael Hardt: 'Affective Labor' and Susan Sontag 'Regarding the Pain of Others' (2003)

PHIL COLLINS, THE OTOLITH GROUP - 16 & 17/12/2009
Workshop session with Phil Collins and guests Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar (The Otolith Group). Reading material: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: 'Touching, Feeling - Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity' (2003)

HITO STEYERL - 13 & 14 /01/2010
Workshop session with Hito Steyerl and a lecture by Hito Steyerl 'The Empire of Senses'. Reading material: Brian Massumi 'Navigating Movements' (2002)

Workshop session with Hito Steyerl and Phil Collins, guest Aneta Szylak, director of Wyspa. Reading material: Brian Massumi: 'The Autonomy of Affect', in: Cultural Critique, No. 31, The Politics of Systems and Environments, Part II. (Autumn, 1995); Deleuze; ‘Cinema I: The Movement Image’ (1983)

Workshop session with Hito Steyerl and Phil Collins, public lecture by Prof. Marie Luise Angerer. Reading material: Sarah Ahmed: 'Cultural politics of emotion', Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press (2004); Ann Laura Stoler: 'Affective States', in: David Nugent, Joan Vincent (eds.): 'A Companion to Anthropology of Politics' (2007)

WESTERDOK - 04/2010

Extra session at If I Can't Dance..., Westerdok, Amsterdam. With Frederique Bergholtz and Tanja Baudoin. On curatorial strategies of If I Can't Dance... and Polish sources in performance history

WYSPA, GDANSK1 - 10/05/2010

Students go to Wyspa, Gdansk with Hito Steyerl, Phil Collins and If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution

HITO STEYERL, PHIL COLLINS, THOMAS ELSAESSER - 19 & 20/05/2010

Workshop session and evaluation Gdansk with Hito Steyerl and Phil Collins. Public lecture by Prof. Thomas Elsaesser (tbc)

PHIL COLLINS - 16 & 17/06/2010

Workshop session with Phil Collins. Reading material: Mark Seltzer: 'Wound Culture: Trauma in the Pathological Public Sphere', (October, Vol. 80, Spring, 1997 and a screening of 'Crash', directed by David Cronenberg (1996)

Hito Steyerl
17/02/2010, 19:30 hrs, Dutch Art Institute

The Empire of Senses
In her lecture 'The Empire of Senses', Hito Steyerl will address the following questions: what is a politics of affect? And how can it be changed?

Contemporary politics are not merely aestheticised, but exercised as aesthetics. This Empire of Senses is built on shock and attraction, on desire and disgust, on hatred and hysteria, on feeling and fear. Read more »

Marie Luise Angerer

24/03/2010, 20:00 hrs, Rijksmuseum TwenteBEING MOVED: DESIRE AND AFFECT
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. Marie-Luise Angerer, born in Bregenz, Austria, is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the Art Academy of Media, Cologne. Her lecture takes place in the framework of the research project 'Affectionately Yours', that If I Can't Dance... is curating at the Dutch Art Institute in Enschede, together with tutors Hito Steyerl and Phil Collins. Read more »

Thomas Elsaesser
19/05/2010, 20:00 hrs, Rijksmuseum TwenteD-3-D: THE RETURN OF DEEP SPACE
In his lecture, Professor Thomas Elsaesser will be shedding a light on 3-D cinema. With the not entirely unexpected box-office success of Avatar, 3-D films are all the rage. But this 'return of deep space' had been prepared for long in advance, and it is not at all obvious, what reasons, forces or intentions stand behind this change in viewing experience and perceptual habits. Thomas Elsaesser is Professor Emeritus of Film and Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam. His lecture takes place in the framework of the research project 'Affectionately Yours', that If I Can't Dance... is curating at the Dutch Art Institute in Enschede, together with tutors Hito Steyerl and Phil Collins. Read more »