Processual Creativity and Partial Incorporations

Diego  Gil

doi:10.25038/am.v0i24.423

Authors

Diego Gil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i24.423

Keywords:

subjectivity, more-than-human, partial incorporation, bare active body, relation, ethico-aesthetic paradigm

Abstract

Brian Massumi and Félix Guattari conceptualize the creative processual force of life that shapes the passages from the potential to the actual dimensions of experience. Throughout these passages, bodies, environments and their relational modes of felt perception crystallize into form. What the conceptual vocabulary of Massumi and Guattari offers is a tool box to register the processual creative forces that are predetermined towards a coming into shape of a body-environment (subjectivity), as well as to take into account the forces deflecting from capture. The relevancy of their concepts is in that they index the more-than-human operations of the forces that shape the production of subjectivity: their concepts express the forces that by being potential and more-than concrete are beyond registering of individual human consciousness. Considering that subjectivity is produced through the potential ingression of partial incorporations – brewing of body-time-spaces – this paper is a proposition to think-feel the entanglements of process philosophy and somatic practices. Moreover, having in mind that processual creativity is a force distributed beyond the human, it needs to be as well thought as an autonomous doing ‘of’ the world. Therefore, the concepts offered by Massumi and Guattari overspill the disciplinary containment of the art disciplines and become an ethico-aesthetic paradigm ‘of’ the world, one in which the resistance to the capture of the production of subjectivity goes hand in hand with the invention of ways to think-feel how bodies and environments become.

Article received: April 25, 2020; Article accepted: July 1, 2020; Published online: April 15, 2021; Original scholarly paper

Author Biography

Diego Gil

Sense Lab, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
Canada

Diego Gil (b.1975) is a choreographer, performer, and philosopher who studied in Amsterdam at the School for New Dance Development (BA), Das Choreography (MA) and holds a PhD at the Interdisciplinary Humanities program of Concordia University under the supervision of Professors Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, and Alanna Thain. The title of his thesis is “A Study on the ‘Intervals of Perception’ and the ‘Architectures of Experience’: towards Schizosomatics”. He combines the study of somatic practices with process philosophy to think of alternative spaces to do research-creation specific for the performing arts.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i24.423 DOI: https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i24.423