Become Ani/omalous je interdisciplinarni projekt koji obuhvaća teorijska i umjetnička izlaganja s temom kulturne anomalije. Projekt će se održati 14., 15. i 16. ožujka 2014. u Multimedijalnom centru Studentskog centra u Zagrebu u suradnji s Kulturom promjene. Ovogodišnji sudionici su: Monika Bregović (teorijsko izlaganje), Matija Čop (izložba), Irena Čurik (teorijsko izlaganje), Stefanie Heine (teorijsko izlaganje), Nino Kovačić (teorijsko izlaganje), Tonka Maleković (video), Suzana Marjanić (teorijsko izlaganje), Petar Matović (čitanje poezije), Ivana Rogar (čitanje proze).
Polazna točka projekta je teorija Gillesa Deleuzea i Félixa Guattarija koji ističu da su dihotomije zapadne metafizike hijerarhijski organizirane pa se zbog toga mogu smatrati simboličkim kao i doslovnim nasiljem. Neke od tih dihotomija su racionalno/iracionalno, čovjek/životinja, kultura/priroda. Premda je isključivanje inferiornog “drugog” elementa dihotomije temelj sustava, postojanje “drugog” također je nužan uvjet za njegovo funkcioniranje: “drugo” je dio režima i sudjeluje u njegovoj reprodukciji. Promjena postojećeg teritorija dolazi s margine, od “drugog”, ali biva institucionalizirana čim se primijeti. Zbog toga je anomaliju prilično teško održati. Međutim, Deleuze i Guattari smatraju da je tijelo neprestano izloženo utjecajima koji izmještaju percepciju, uništavaju uspostavljene teritorije i otvaraju put tijelu za prekarni način “postajanja” anomalnim Potencijal za moguće otvaranje prema “postajanju” između binarnih opreka vide u umjetnosti. Ondje nastaje lakuna u kojoj se postojeća politika između tijela preispituje i otvara novim budućnostima, a koja pritom ostaje odvojena od insitucionaliziranog i ustaljenog poretka. Ono što se smatra ljudskim subjektom preplavljuju ne-ljudske sile koje ih putem postajanja anomalnim izmiještaju iz svih fiksnih identiteta koji su izgrađeni na osnovi binarnih, hijerarhijskih opreka.

Become Ani/omalous is an interdisciplinary project which includes theoretical, literary and art presentations with the theme of cultural anomaly.

The project will take place on 14, 15, and 16 of March, 2014 in Multimedia Center, a part of Student Center in Zagreb, in cooperation with the Culture of Change. This year’s participants are: Monika Bregović (theory presentation), Matija Čop (exhibition), Irena Čurik (theory presentation), Stefanie Heine (theory presentation), Nino Kovačić (theory presentation), Tonka Maleković (video), Suzana Marjanić (theory presentation), Petar Matović (poetry reading), Ivana Rogar (fiction reading).

The project’s starting point is the theory of  Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari who say that Western metaphysical binary oppositions are hierarchical, and therefore can be potentially considered symbolic, as well as literal violence. Only some of these oppositions are: rational-irrational, human-animal, culture-nature. Although exclusion of an inferior “other” grounds the constitution of a system, its existence is also a necessary precondition – “other” is part of the dominant regime and participates in its reproduction. A change of the existing territory comes from the margin, from “other” but tends to get institutionalized as soon as it is noticed. ANOMALY is in this sense rather impossible to sustain. However, according to Deleuze &  Guattari, body is constantly being exposed to affects which deterritorialize perception, destroy the established territories and open the body to a precarious mode of BECOMING. D&G see a potential in “art” as one of the possible openings towards “becoming” between binary oppositions, a gap in which the existing politics between bodies is being questioned and opened to possible futures, while separated from the institutionalized and sedimented orders. What is considered human subject is overwhelmed by non-human forces which through becoming deterritorialize them from all fixed identities constructed on hierarchical dichotomies.