THE CENTER FOR BROKEN THOUGHT --
THE NEW WEAPON

April 15, 2006

On April 15th the Center for Broken Thought will continue
its first series of presentations with "THE NEW WEAPON,"
a dramatic synthesis envisioned and executed by the two
founders of the Center. "THE NEW WEAPON" is a
veritable chaos-poem that sets words and images, no
less than existence itself, on fire. With severity and
precision, "THE NEW WEAPON" will provide tactics of
inflection that initiate a new form of vitality, and an
unmarked engagement with the image, thought, and the
world. This event will unfold through actions of ecstasy
and threat, coldness and whisper.

Dean Lukic engages with notions of speed, secrecy, and
movement. In the course of his education, he traveled
extensively, from Zagreb to Vienna to Brussels to New
York. Parallel with his geographical deviations were the
conceptual ones that followed. These travels forced him
to address what he perceived to be an underlying cruelty
of the world, and to see what could be generated through
this unsettling implication. It is basically this implication
that has led him to construct ideas about the relationship
between violence and desire.

Jason Mohaghegh engages with notions of rage, illusion,
and the threatening. From his early studies, he
immediately found himself drawn to more obscure and
radical currents in modern literature and philosophy from
both East and West. Amidst this time period, he started
to become fiercely conscious of the need to tread
towards more extreme regions of thought and instinct,
and so became consumed with a project on the idea of
chaos. This chaosing has formed the basis for further
explorations into experiences of ecstasy and warfare.



Tatsuya Nakatani is an internationally recognized solo
percussionist whose vast improvisations cast open new
sensibilities for sound-experimentation.

The Center for Broken Thought is a concept-machine
whose purpose is to proliferate and produce ideas that
are visceral and sharp. By initiating a movement called
"The Breaking," the Center for Broken Thought
emerged in September 2005 at Columbia University
with the urgency to innovate concepts and modes of
experience that emanate force and desire. The Center
offers seminars, events, and experiments that
abrasively engage with literature, film, visual art,
theater, and thought itself.

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