Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson : In Search of UIQ

30 Jan-2 Feb 2014

Overview

The Otolith Collective and The Showroom are delighted to announce the UK premiere of artists Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson’s new film In Search of UIQ (2013, 72 min). Moving surreptitiously between the modes of essay, documentary and fiction, In Search of UIQ unfolds the story of philosopher and schizoanalyst Félix Guattari’s attempts to produce a science fiction blockbuster from his original screenplay, Un Amour d’UIQ (UIQ in Love). The script imagines a hyper-intelligent, invisible, protean life force dubbed UIQ (Infra-quark Universe) that makes contact with a community of outsiders while simultaneously causing havoc to global communications networks as it begins to develop consciousness. Guattari began work on the project at the beginning of the 1980s – collaborating at one time with the independent filmmaker Robert Kramer – and his radical vision for a subversive ‘popular’ film would occupy him on and off for the next seven years.