The line of sense: An outline of the On(the)line

The text is a rewritten lecture on the staging of Mateja Bučar's dance installation On(the)line performed in Cankarjev dom on 20 October 2017. It draws parallels between a staged art situation and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze whose book The Logic of Sense discusses the line of sense, the surface that separates bodies and events and represents the line of nonsense that produces sense and language. Conversely, the simple gesture of a line drawn along the lobby of Cankarjev dom in the performance On(the)line is one that establishes an extraordinary situation, a line of artistic nonsense that has, as Andrew Hewitt would say, the power to switch between the aesthetic and the political.