4.-6. May, 2022Zentrum Fokus Forschung (ZFF), dieAngewandte
Rustenschacherallee
2-4, 1020 Wien
Wed 16-20h, Thu 10-17h, Fr 10-17h
Detailed
informationDizziness occurs as an unpredictable movement or the illusion of such a motion that unbalances
us. States of dizziness happen temporarily, conditionally, situationally, and on different scales, from the personal and emotional
up to societal and systemic levels and can encompass an entire world out of kilter. Therefore, we need to address dizziness
as sensory input, impacting our sense of balance but also our ability to make sense and sense in terms of emotional processing.
In today's societies, we can localize many sources of disruption, disorientation, and disaster. As
we become dizzy as a group or community, we enter a stage of exposedness, unsure of our abilities, actions, and reasoning
– we become uncertain of ourselves and the very ground we thought of as stable and stabilizing.
This process-oriented
working symposium aims to discuss ways of localizing, recognizing, approaching, and countering dizziness on different scales
and disciplines – from the somatic to the built environment to interspecies and post-colonial contexts. Through the prism
of art, architecture, philosophy, somatics, post-colonial theory and remembrance cultures, we aim to find ways to uncover
the layers of physical, social and architectural dizziness in historical, political, social, fictional, present and future
contexts.
Curated by Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond, Profs for the PhD in Art Program and located at ZFF and in its
neighborhood, the symposium will feature Caribbean philosopher and writer Dénètem Touam in conversation with philosopher Karoline
Feyertag, and installation by somatic architect Maria Auxiliadora Gálvez Pérez, and contributions by the architectural theorist
and leader of the interdisciplinary project
Vertigo in the City, Davide Deriu, visual and sound artist Dani Gal,
novelist and essayist Anna Kim, cultural history and media theory scholar Rebekka Ladewig, the Vienna-based
institute
for transacoustic research, philosopher Marcus Steinweg, performance artist Laura Brechmann, graphic designers Christian
Hoffelner and Katrin Heinlein, artist and clown Florent Golfier and a contribution by a group of master students of the Cross-Disciplinary
Strategies (Daniel Hüttler, Friederike Teller, Jana Weissteiner, Luca Hierzenberger & Samo Zeichen) in collaboration with
artist Jojo Gronostay.
Thus, this symposium aims to combine deliberate and unconscious processes cross-pollinating academic
knowledge and discourse with somatic learning, artistic work, discussion, and experimentation. The Symposium in Motion is
open to the public. All are welcome and invited to bring light cotton clothes for printing.
Navigating
Dizziness TogetherFWF-PEEK AR598, in cooperation FAB LAB Madrid CEU and ZFF.
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