Art is, for Deleuze, the extension of the architectural imperative to organise the space of the earth…This roots art not in the creativity of mankind but rather in a superfluousness of nature…It roots art in the natural and in the animal, in the most primitive and sexualised of evolutionary residues in man’s animal heritage. Art is evolutionary, in the sense that it coincides with and harnesses evolutionary accomplishments into avenues of expression that no longer have anything to do with survival. Art hijacks survival impulses and transforms them through the vagaries and intensifications posed by sexuality, deranging them into a new order, a new practice. Art is the sexualisation of survival or, equally, sexuality is the rendering artistic, the exploration of the excessiveness, of nature.
[Excerpt from "Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth" by Elizabeth Grosz, 2008]
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