Anderson, Gary (2021) Laruelle prefers heresy to revolution: from non-philosophy to live art. In: Art Disarming Philosophy: Non-philosophy and Aesthetics. Rowman & Littlefield, London, pp. 217-234. ISBN 9781538147467
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Abstract
This essay is an experiment: to draw a parallel between Laruelle’s thought and Live Art. Live Art (capitalized according to the tradition of the Live Art Development Agency1) is a periphery ‘discipline’ of theatre and fine arts – at least in academia. During a conversation with Lois Keidan, then, now former, director of the Live Art Development Agency2 during the Art Disarming Philosophy symposium, Keidan claimed that if there was a parallel between Laruelle’s thought and Live Art it was something to do with the refusal of a basic decision out of which all insights/practices/thoughts subsequently spring. Keidan called Live Art the ‘non-method’. I will attempt to develop that thought with reference to key Live Artists from a specific branch of Live Art called art-activism.3 I am focussing on art-activism because the way art- activists work seems to me to be curiously Laruellean, despite hardly a men- tion of his name in the art-activist worlds. Or more specifically, art-activists are more heretical than revolutionary. I am working with Laruelle’s idea that revolutionary means replacing one dominant system with another, which becomes, eventually, just as dominant. Heresy might mean the constant chip- ping away from the side lines of that dominant system in the hope of exposure and eventual, cumulative insurrection4 – like many art-activists do.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Creative Arts & Humanities > School of Creative and Performing Arts |
| Depositing User: | Gary Anderson |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jan 2022 14:08 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2022 14:36 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3472 |
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