Reading Guattari on the move- Bartosz Mroczkowski's workshops

Workshops led by Bartosz Mroczkowski accompany the exhibition Assemblages. Angela Melitopoulos and Maurizio Lazzarato

It was a pleasure to invite you to take part in the workshops titled Reading Guattari on the move. The aim of the workshop was to take a joint reading of the French thinker's texts in the context of the exhibition of works by Angela Melitopoulos and Maurizio Lazzarato entitled Assemblages.

Participants were invited to read the selected texts of the author of The Three Ecologies using the close reading method. The proposed method consisted of reading aloud by each participant selected parts of the text during the meeting. The next stage of the workshop was a joint movement practice, aiming to embody the concepts presented by Felix Guattari and their interpretations proposed by Angela Melitopoulos and Maurizio Lazzarato.

Bartosz Mroczkowski - PhD student at the Institute of Philosophy of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań where he works on the subject of body conceptualisation and practices  in the perspective of post-humanism and new materialism (2013). Graduate in Philosophy from the Institute of Philosophy of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (2011) with the diploma thesis entitled Anty-psychiatria: filozofia i praktyka (Anti-psychiatry: Philosophy and Practice). Founder of the web portal Machina Myśli (The Machinery of Thought). Together with Krystyna Lama Szydłowska, he organized the transdisciplinary workshops which he called Praktyka kształtowania wiedzy w ruchu (Practice of Shaping Knowledge in Motion). His research interests focus on post-structuralism and the issue of becoming (Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari), life in general (zoe), post-humanism, feminist critical theories, new materialism, aesthetics of existence, anti-psychiatry and the broadly understood corporeality and experimenting with it. Together with the Fundacja Sens Ruchu (The Sense of Motion Fund), he organised a series of workshops called Affects and Micropolitics- Pool for Practice Exchange. His essays were  published in Praktyka Teoretyczna (Theoretical Practice), Machina Myśli (The Machinery of Thought), eCzasKultura (E-TimeofCulture)   and scientific series Scripta IFK UW (Scripta of The Institute of Classical Studies at Warsaw University).