On September 11th 2017, Bracha L. Ettinger, visual artist, distinguished thinker and psychoanalyst, was invited by DAS Choreography to hold a public lecture at DAS Graduate School. 

Bracha developed a series of concepts for rethinking the Unconscious, including the matrixial time, space and gaze, and metramorphosis, which led to a new understanding of both the feminine body-psyche and the human subject. One of these concepts is the concept of Carriance:

“Carrying is knowledge. Carriance is the symbolic relief for a Real of carrying and being-carried, and for its sublimation. In the Real, carriance absorbs the effects of depth-working of subreal strings and threads. While the one carries and the other is being carried, some conscience of carriance, a conscience that includes encounters and resonance of elements on the subreal level, is formed at the unconscious level."

More info:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GORpAqcUEAw
• https://vimeo.com/175562745
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewnbp-nCkfk

During the lecture passages will be shown of three videoart films:

1.  Ein-Raham – Eurydice. Videoart film, HD, 19:57 min. in loop, 2014 [2012]; 
2. MaMemento Fluidus – MaMedusa. Videoart film, HD, 25:53 min. in loop, 2014 [2012]; 
3. Ein-Raham – Crazy Woman. Videoart film, HD, 16:06 in loop, 2014 [2012]

Bracha L. Ettinger is a prominent international artist-painter, artist-theorist and a distinguished thinker and psychoanalyst, working in oil-painting, drawing, photography, notebooks and artist's books, videoart, conversations, lecturing-performances and encounter-events, and writing. Her soloshows include: Silesian Museum (Muzeum Śląskie), Katowice 2017. Eurydice - Medusa at Arter in: 14th Istanbul Biennial,2015. Museum of the City of St. Petersburg (2013). Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers (2011). Alma Matrix (dual ex.) at Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (2010). Freud Museum, London (2009). Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki (2009). Kiasma, Helsinki (2006). Drawing Center, New York (2001).

Her recent exhibitions include: Colori, GAM, Turin (2017); The Image of War. Bonnier Konsthall, Stockholm, (2017); Encounters/Ontmoetingen. MAS/KMSKA, Antwerpen; The Haunted House / The Human Condition, National Center for Contemporary Art with Museum of Modern Art and Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow; Lyric on a Battelfield. Gladstone Gallery, New York. Earlier exhibitions include: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam ( Kabinet, 1997); Centre G. Pompidou, Paris (Face a L'Historie, 1996, elles@pompidoucentre, 2010). Konstmuseum. Göteborgs (Aletheia, 2003); National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, Whitechapel, London (Inside the Visible, 1996); Monographies dedicated to her art include: And My Heart Wound-space (Istanbul Biennial, 2015); Art as Compassion. Bracha L. Ettinger (edited by Catherine de Zegher and Griselda Pollock, 2011); Le Cabinet de Bracha (edited by Patrick le Nouene, 2011). Israeli born in 1948, Bracha moved to Paris in 1981 and worked mainly there until 2003. She now works between Paris and Tel Aviv. 

Prof. Bracha L. Ettinger (Philosohy, Arts and Critical Thought, EGS), is one of the world’s leading theorists in the realm of the sexual difference and French feminism, whose writings have influenced film and literary thinking, queer studies, aesthetics, ethics, and art history. She is author of numerous articles and few books including Regard et Espace-de-bord matrixiels (La lettre volee, 1999 [The Matrixial Borderspace (essays from 1994-1999, Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2006].

The lecture was part of a two day visit of Bracha Ettinger to DAS Choreography. The second day consisted of a workshop with the students of DAS Choreography titled "Carriance".