Gilles Deleuze

GILLES DELEUZE

Genealogical position: French theory, psychoanalysis and queer theory.

Conceptual connection supplied for this timeline:

Deleuze + Francis Bacon → logic of sensation and scream rather than representation.

Cross-genealogy relation:

Deleuze / Bacon ↔ physical practice: sensation and force rather than psychological representation.

Deleuze's 'logic of sensation' — 'the scream rather than the horror,' direct capture of intensity rather than representation of a psychological state — is the theoretical keystone linking three separate moments of Clarisse's year: Marco Donnarumma's reading of Bacon's Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion ('faces open like wounds'); the spasm theorised by Despina Zacharopoulou (Deleuze 2019, 30–31); and Clarisse's own performance at MAI. One Deleuzian text running through three different guest artists — a clean example of her own braiding methodology.