ABSTRACT
This chapter is comprised of desire, love and affective flows that passed through an emblematic art museum school as it was being shut down. Moving through this space are matters of power, race, belonging, loss and identity. Fueled by capacities of bodies to affect and be affected, the authors join in a second-person account of their experiences during the dissolution of the school based on Deleuze’s concept of event. To one side of the event is past debris: the founding of the historic art museum school, and how its romantic ideals recently collided with political agendas and capital flows. On the other side of the event is the “yet to come,” potential. Cramped between the two spaces is a desiring, art production of affective objects arranged around a gallery based on the theme of love–printed texts on postcards, audio recordings, love letters, dream telling, books about love–situated around a bed, a place of lovemaking, births, deaths and dreaming.
