Eleni Kolliopoulou | Independent visual artist, GR
Day 1, 9 November, De Bijloke Bibliotheek, 14:30-15:00
A few years ago, our professor of aesthetics at the Academy showed us Deleuze’s L'Abécédaire. In “D comme Désir,” the following was a significant moment for me: “we never desire an object, for example a woman, but the ‘landscape’ that is what we sense that is ‘inside’ this woman and our imaginary engagement with this (landscape).” I imagined an almost empty landscape, except for allusions to a city, the perception of time (rhythm and light) and the desirous. While the waves of desire roll over the landscape, I embody that body’s desire, its tendency to receive and incorporate the external force that dominates it. The lightning strikes: you see.