Katherine three performance texts

[[Part 1, performed at Entrepôt du Congo, Antwerp, January 2016.

“The sea is a smooth space par excellence: open water always moved by the wind, the sun and the stars, nomadically traversable by noise, colour and celestial bearings. Increased navigation of the open water resulted in demands for its striation. Although this took hold progressively, the year 1440, when Portuguese discoverers introduced the first nautical charts, marked a turning point in the striation of the sea. Maps with meridians, parallels, longitudes, latitudes and territories gridded the oceans, making distances calculable and measurable. It meant the beginning of the great explorations – and of the transatlantic slave trade and the expansion of the European State apparatus. The smooth and the striated concern the political and politics.” (Lysen, F and Pisters, P 2012, ’Introduction: the Smooth and the Striated’, Deleuze Studies, vol. 6, no.1, 2012, pp. 1-5. This quotation from p. 1.)

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