Haig Aivazian - Lecture-performée
World / Anti World: On Seeing Double Audio-visual lecture Thursday, September 21, 2017 Approx 60 min, held in English RSVP: contact@kadist.org World/Anti World: On Seeing Double grapples with the ways in which our selves are collectively and individually constituted and deconstituted by the intersecting gazes of law, capital and machines. Structured around the three explosions that occurred at the Stade de France in November 2015, the narrative of this lecture takes on the history and futures of surveillance technologies and the so-called subjects they construct. With a particular focus on the increasing difficulty to differentiate between populations of colonies, of war zones, and of ghettoes, or to clearly delineate the territorial boundaries between them, Aivazian looks at the exceptional and permanent, preemptive and corrective regimes triggered by the passage back and forth between the state of law and the state of exception. The narrative is weaved in and out of the stadium, and told with the help of found online materials, to present us with a world that we inhabit together: a world we are always at once familiar with, and alien to. The residency and the exhibition in KADIST contribute to the process of writing for part II of How Great You Are O Son of the Desert! part 2. Aivazian has been conducting interviews and visiting political and sporting institutions in Paris, as a part of his research for the film. This material give room to this audio-visual lecture.