The Concept and the Idiot

This workshop is a general introduction to philosophy and more specifically to a set of tools and historical tensions that performers and artists in general might find useful for their understanding of contemporary debates and questionnings.

It is also for me a way to reaffirm the importance and playfulness of au/oral transmission and thinking alive in front and in the presence of others. 

Presentation:
This philosophy workshop unfolds possible ways to navigate in the nervous sea of concepts, while holding on to our own idiocy. It is an introduction to theory as a series of questions, and as an oratory, collective adventure. The horizon of this workshop is the historicised relation between "body", "concept" and "the great outdoors". This relation rests in a western history of knowledge haunted by its history of violence.

It is an introduction to a theory-based practice, and a critical exposition of questions that intersect philosophy and discourses found in radical politics and contemporary art.
Here are a few companions on our way:

• Language, death, and hospitality: what is a milieu?
• Difference and repetition: various time theories and their political subconscious
• History of witches – how to make memory while gazing at shadows?
• Friendship, hauntology, mathematics, science fiction: philosophy and the great outdoors
• The Greek art of asking questions

You don’t need to know anything about philosophy. I will share my practice with you, we will read some texts together, and you can ask as many questions as you please. This is also a workshop for people who are interested in how to transmit and share a theory-based practice. Bring some pens and paper if you wish, and some idiotic ideas.

Some references – absolutely no need to read anything before! Lacan / Stengers / Sapho / Merleau-Ponty / Mbembé / Naess / Simondon / Levi-Strauss / Cavaillès / Derrida / Frederici / Glissant / Mohaghegh / Platon / Fanon / Negarestani / CA Conrad / Laboria Cuboniks / Koyré / Malabou