CTS - Lecture - Deleuze and Guattari and creativity

Deleuze and Guattari and creativity


Aim
To examine how Deleuze and Guattari draw emphasis to the constructed and contingent nature of social reality.


Objectives:
(1) To contrast their model of creative, "rhizomatic" thought with traditional "tree like" models of thought bases in sequential argumentation;
(2) To examine Deleuze and Fuattari's interpretations of processes of social change and development.
(3) To consider how they propose individual people might transform themselves;
(4) To contextualise these theories of change and development in relation to the concepts "the virtual" and "The actual".


'A thousand plateaus' 
Tried to re-think social change, didn't want to get to the point of overthrowing government; that change could be ongoing. 


Revolt against traditional modes of thought - to be thought of a tree like structure, to be set within the trunk, the branches representing chains of thought, the argumentation, branches link to one another.
'Risomatic thoughts' - Riso a wall plant. 


Plato - meaning a particular set of circumstances brought together in an intensive relationship.
A plant form - underground stair that grows horizontally - horizontal shoots e.g mint and ginger. 
Alternative mode of thought - against tree like structure 
Linked through leaps of association,  seeminglesly connected ideas
Principle of interrelationship 


IMAGE - Concept (signified) > Sound-Image (signifier)


Signified - mental concept, arbitrary construct, produced through na agreement of users by a given language system. Concept - Caught up in a system of language.


Concept we use in thought and speech gain their meaning in a repeated pattern of the way its signified and usage.


The Riso builds relationship between objects places people and ideas, generated commonalities. Risos are creative, produced intentionally or unintentionally. 


Isa Genzken, hospital (ground zero) 2008
Objects images and poured paint collide creating formation - future architectural construction - sense of things being held together in provisional ways. Can be taken apart and reformed in another way. Made of materials we can find in the street, shop etc. Brought together in this configuration, suggest possibility of architectural construction. Alternate possibility. Take on form of assemblage - proccesses of arrnaging, organising. 


Assemblage 


Hooide - We judge people, as do Police. Signifies and denotes a person wearing sportwear. WHat comes with it is a history of assumptions, laws, judgements. 
If these 'hoodies' were to conjugate in a trolley park, that trolley park function has been transformed, become a place of social interaction - judgements of assemblages, now separated from supermarket, people keep their distance etc. Re-teritorilisation.


State of militay slow, static to chance
Representations of Teenagers in society shift and change all the time


Ideology shapes how we see and view the world, and ourselves.

Lecture 5 - 'Gaze and the media' Helen

Lecture Notes:

'According to usage and conventions which are at last being questioned but have by no means been overcome - men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at' (Berger 1972)

Women carry around in their heads, an idea of themselves being look at 'to be lookedatness' 

Hans Memling 'Vanity' (1485)

Device of the mirror - present in painting, Makes it appear the woman enjoys looking at herself. 

Mirror used in contemporary advertising as a device.

Camera positioned to focalise between models legs, we're almost allowed to look, due to the mirror, and gazing of model

Alexandre Cabanel 'Birth of Venus' 1863

reclining position

Covering of eyes, allows us to look at her body, hides her gaze

Sophie Dahl for opium - Advert

Again, eyes closed, focus of our gaze is upon her body

Image rotated, emphasis on face

Titian's Venus of Urbino, 1538

'Traditional nude'

We have her gaze - Quite inviting, relaxed, wealthy woman

Manet - 'Olympia' 1863 - Modern nude

Sits slightly elevated, direct gaze, Pose more assertive that "titians Venus'

Prostitute - receiving gift from admirers 

Ingres 'Le gran odalisque' 1814

Guerrilla Girls

5% of the artists in the modern art sections are women, but 85% of the nudes are female.

Manet - Bar at the Folies Bergeres, 1882

Important in sense of 'Gaze'

Manet in portrait, top right

Several perspectives at once

Distorted mirror reflection

We've become the subject of environment, she is almost waiting for us to place order

Jeff Wall 'Picture for women' 1979

Inspired by Manet - Bar at the folies Bergeres, 1882

Woman has absorbed gaze, similar stature

Picture device is visible

Poles divide image into sections ( we are centralised)

Coward, R , 1984

The camera in contemporary media has been put to use as an extension of the male gaze at women on the streets

Normality to lack or attire / nudity

sunglasses has eyes, we're not challenged by her gaze

Eva Hertigova, 1994 'Hello boys' - Wonderbra

Looking at herself

Looking down onto billboard viewers

Flirtatious 

Coward, R, 1984

Peeping tom - 1960

The profusion of images which characterises contemporary society could be seen as an obsessive distancing of women, a form of voyeurism

Filmed women being killed by Male subject

Male objectified too

Male reclining in underwear, eyes closed, similar to Alexandre Cabanel 'Birth of Venus' 1863

Genderads.com - Looks at the gaze

Dolce and Gabbana from 2007 - Display of male strength, Gym setting, everyone returns gaze, inc reclining male

'Im in ur movies...disrupton ur male gaze'

Marilyn: William Travillas dress from 'the seven year itch' (1955)

Artemisia Gentileschi

'Judith beheading Holofernes' 1620

Uncommon women protagonist 

Pollock, G, 1981

Women 'Marginalised within the masculine discourses of art history'

This marginalisation supports the 'hegemony of men in cultural practise'

Cindy Sherman

'Untitled films still number6' - 1977-79

Turned around reclining body

Mirror not used as a device - Denial , mirror facing away

Her gaze away from us

Position false - hand position awkward - Acting - Uncomfortable 

Barbara Kruger

'Your gaze hits the side of my face' 1981

Babarar Kruger

' I shop therefore I am'

Sarah Lucas 'Eating a banana' 1990 - To be-looked-at-ness

Women may be conscious about eating banana in public as it replicates something else

Sarah Lucas - Self portrait with fried eggs - 1996

Challenging idea of small breasts

Uses food o challenge idea of womens body used to be consumed

Illustrative of gaze

Tracy Emin ' money photo' 2001

Making money from their art

Almost pulling money inside her

Replicates pornographic pose

Women making money from body and art

Susan song

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed'.

Reality television 

Appears to offer us the position as the all-seeing eye - the power of the gaze

Allows us a voyeuristic passive consumption of a type of reality

The truman show 1988 dir Peter Weir

Big brother

Persuaded to swim, tan, chair has front on view of contestants crotches, contestants performing 'to be looked at ness' through mirrors

'Looking is not indifferent...there can never be a question of just looking'

Ways fo seeing chapter 3

Victor burgin 1982 thinking photography

Rosalind coward the look

Laura mulvey -