UIQ in Love_A Love of UIQ: Between Translation and Transduction

An opportunity to join filmmakers and artists Graeme Thomson and Silvia Maglioni for a two-day workshop or ‘seeance’ to make Félix Guattari’s unmade sci-fi film Un Amour d’UIQ exist as a collective experience, and to expand the territories of the film’s ‘body’ and its narrative trajectories.

Guattari’s script describes what happens when an invisible alien force from a parallel dimension – the Infra-quark Universe – makes contact with a group of humans and begins to desire a form (a face, a body, a language) commensurate with the world of its hosts.

As the filmmakers write, 'In this seeance we want to consider Guattari’s screenplay as an unstable, potential entity whose coming into being has to be negotiated through an ongoing process of translation and transduction. One of our aims is to "produce" this becoming-film collectively, but without filming a single shot. Instead, the film will manifest itself through a process of contamination/contagion, by "translating" the script’s DNA into mental images that we can describe to each other and by investigating the Infra-quark Universe, its bodily limits, paradoxes and potentials through a molecular exploration of sound, language and body states. This process will also involve transposing the film's temporality to the conditions of the present day and reimagining its context in relation to the experiences of the envisionaries and their fabulated histories or futures'.