We call on ‘smooth spaces’ for this to happen, ‘holey places’ where change is possible; or, multiplicious utopian spaces where encounter, discussion, experimentation, and affinity can take place (Simon, 2005). The visionaries of such a potential are the cosmic artisans referred to in Thousand Plateaus, whom I call an ‘assemblage of actions ’ (jagodzinski, 2010). These artisans are able to feel, see avant-garde without authority and hear more intensely into the inhuman and nonhuman cosmological Life that penetrates us all. They are an avant-garde in the sense that their ‘work’ is , it does not fit in the past or future, nor is it ‘in untimely advance,’ but addresses the ‘present future’ by harnessing the cosmological signs that are made manifest, providing us with a post-ontological imagination, which is the unthought of the educational [art] task our species faces.
(PDF) From the artist to the cosmic artisan: The educational task for art in anthropogenic times. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326253816_From_the_artist_to_the_cosmic_artisan_The_educational_task_for_art_in_anthropogenic_times [accessed Dec 05 2024].
‘The modern figure is not the child or the lunatic, still less the artist, but the cosmic artisan: […] To be an artisan and no longer an artist, creator, or founder, is the only way to become cosmic, to leave the milieus and the earth behind.’ (Deleuze and Guattari. 2004: 345)
Acknowledgements: The Cosmic Artisans of the Nomadic Detective Agency
With warmest thanks to the human members of the Nomadic Detective Agency and thin e more-than-human multiplicities assemblers…. [many wish to be anonymous, unnamed, unlabelled and communicate in tones that are ‘waves of energy’.
Alasdair Aldous, Amanda Crawley Jackson, Ana Vicente Richards, Andrea Zimmerman, Anna Wood, Tony Pritchard, Phoenix Perry, Amanda Jenkins, Jonathan Martin, Ashwani Sharma, Dave Webster, Dave White, Kay Sidebottom, Emily Salines, Helen Brooks, Kene Igweonu, Mahesh Bhat, Mark Crawley, Mark P. Wright, Michelle Howe, Miriam Venner, Naomi Bulliard, Penny Hay, Pratāp Rughani, Ramia Mazé, Sofia Nasif-Whitestone, Victoria Odeniyi, Thomas Micel, Susan Papas, Peter Fillingham,members of the Experimental Pedagogies Research Group (EPRG)…
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