Practising with Deleuze: Design, Dance, Art, Writing, Philosophy

by Suzie Attiwill, Terri Bird, Andrea Eckersley, Antonia Pont, Jon Roffe

Overview

Six authors – two fine artists, a dancer, a creative writer, a designer and a philosopher – participate in the first systematic reading of Gilles Deleuze's mature philosophy through the lens of creative practice. For arts practitioners, this book provides a way to engage creatively with the ideas of Deleuze; for philosophers, it maintains a rigorous relationship to Deleuze’s texts including Difference and Repetition and A Thousand Plateaus, and demonstrates how to engage conceptually with arts practitioners.
Practising with Deleuze is focused around key aspects of production: forming, framing, experiencing, encountering and practising. These multiple dialogues reflect the engagement of contemporary creative practices with the generative philosophy of Deleuze.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474429351
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	10/25/2017
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Suzie Attiwill is Associate Professor of Interior Design and deputy dean of Learning & Teaching, RMIT UniversitySchool of Architecture and Design. She also has an independent practice that involves the design of exhibitions, curatorial work, writing and collaborating on a range of interdisciplinary projects in Australia and overseas. She is a founding member of the Urban Interior Laboratory and the current executive editor of the IDEA Journal (2014-2016). She has contributed to a number of journals mainly on interior design and architecture.

Terri Bird is an artist and a Senior Lecturer in the Fine Art Department at MADA, Monash University. She has published essays on the artworks of Ardi Gunawan, Bianca Hester and Fiona Abicare.

Andrea Eckersley is a Lecturer in Fashion Design at RMIT University, Melbourne. She recently completed a PhD in Fine Arts (Painting) at Monash University. Andrea is the art editor at the Deleuze Studies journal and exhibits regularly in Australia.

Antonia Pont is Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture at Deakin University, Australia. She publishes poetry, fiction and essays as well as theoretical work across writing, literature and the creative arts. Her research is concerned with time, transformation, ethical capacity, thought, movement and joy. She is the founder of Vijnana Yoga Australia (2009-), where she continues to practise, teach and lead retreats. Her collection of poetry You Will Not Know in Advance What You’ll Feel was published in 2019 with Rabbit Poets Series and shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Award (2020). She is co-author of Practising with Deleuze (Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2017).

Jon Roffe teaches philosophy at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. He is the author of Gilles Deleuze’s Empiricism and Subjectivity (Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2017), Abstract Market Theory (Palgrave, 2015) and Badiou’s Deleuze (Acumen 2012). He is the co-author of Deleuze’s Philosophical Lineage II (Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2019) and Deleuze’s Philosophical Lineage (Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2009), Practising with Deleuze (Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2017) and Lacan Deleuze Badiou (Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2013), and co-editor of a number of volumes on 20th-century French thought.

Philipa Rothfield is an honorary Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She writes on philosophy of the body largely in relation to dance. She is interested in the work of Merleau-Ponty, Nietzsche, Klossowski and Deleuze, to see what each of these philosophers can bring to dance and also to see what dance brings to philosophy.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsNotes on Co-Authors 1. Introduction, Gregory Flaxman2. Philosophising Practice, Antonia Pont 3. Forming, Terri Bird4. Framing – interior, Suzie Attiwill5. Experience and its Others, Philipa Rothfield6. Encountering surfaces, encountering spaces, encountering painting, Andrea Eckersley7. Practising Philosophy, Jon Roffe8. Bibliography

What People are Saying About This

The artists and philosophers assembled here deliver profound meditations on the largely unexamined topic of Deleuze and practice, touching on the philosophy of practice, the practice of philosophy, and various Deleuzian practices in painting, sculpture, curating, dance, interior design and architecture. Fresh, engaging and provocative from start to finish.

University of Georgia Ronald Lynn Bogue

The artists and philosophers assembled here deliver profound meditations on the largely unexamined topic of Deleuze and practice, touching on the philosophy of practice, the practice of philosophy, and various Deleuzian practices in painting, sculpture, curating, dance, interior design and architecture. Fresh, engaging and provocative from start to finish.

Editorial Reviews

The artists and philosophers assembled here deliver profound meditations on the largely unexamined topic of Deleuze and practice, touching on the philosophy of practice, the practice of philosophy, and various Deleuzian practices in painting, sculpture, curating, dance, interior design and architecture. Fresh, engaging and provocative from start to finish.

University of Georgia Ronald Lynn Bogue