What does it take to build a Desire Machine? This article is a set of instructions—or perhaps more accurately, a chronicle of our attempts to assemble one. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts of assemblage and desiring machines, we embarked on an artistic research project that intertwined performance, transmedia, and a healthy dose of experimentation.
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