Diagramma Enflamma

'Enflamma Diagra' is a video/sound installation, a contribution for a group exhibition:

The event explores diagrams as actual/virtual machines that while taking material form and indexing existing relations and objects, point to other arrangements.

As Gilles Châtelet declared, diagrams are gestures that invite other gestures. This is a vision of diagrams as abstract machines activated through performance or thought; a notion of diagrams as relays that connect or traverse different times and spaces. It is a conception of diagrams as critical and logical exploratory devices that, in presenting what is not apparent or visible – real abstractions, potential modes of being, hidden relations – paradoxically depend on the register of the imaginary and the inventive production of images, figures and gestures.

Since the Enlightenment, when diagrams facilitated scientific and technical breakthroughs, to cybernetic research of the twentieth century, to the algorithmic devices that govern relations and economies today, diagrams have extended and organised human culture. The danger of this proliferation might be that while diagrams are everywhere they are often reductive rather than exploratory, functioning merely as organisational machines or as influential figures of control and efficiency. In response, Plague of Diagrams addresses not just the critical and organisation functions of diagrams but the art of diagramming too.

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