Убежище / Suoja / Shelter

People's Will' Explosive
Jelly

Practical Affectology Unit is a Moscow-based group of young artists and researchers who aim at mapping affective formations and structures of feeling particular for specific social and cultural conditions. PAU navigates through a variety of fields, such as political theory, ecosophy, media studies, and cognitive science, working as a laboratory to build a materialized theory of curiosity to discreet and inconspicuous, as well as to hone a critical attitude to technologies that manipulate the subtle dynamics of affect. Formed in 2019 on the basis of the ICA Moscow, PAU presented their 'Inventory of Shimmers' collective research at the group show "Communities and Spaces", Winzavod, Moscow (2019) followed by a public programme consisting of a round table and a reading group.

'Explosive Jelly' project is built around the Russian end-19th century revolutionary movement and one of its key figures, Nikolai Kibalchich, the inventor of the dynamite bomb and a rocket pioneer – designer of the first aeronautic machine working from the energy of explosive combustion. 'Explosive jelly' is a nitrogen explosive substance, a part of the explosive the revolutionaries used during a series of attacks on Alexander II. The research group explored the image of 'terrorist', 'insurgent', or 'rebel' through their representations in media and power discourse. Exploring how technologies (medical, military, and media) in all their historicity mediated and transformed attitude to power and agency, catalyzing and canalizing certain types of affects and reactions, the group focused particularly on the singularity of the event and the 'stable disequilibrium' with its determining role of error, bug and rupture.

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Lecture - Performance
June 13, 18:00 (CEST)