«Kay, or a Case for Intensity» is an artistic research (PhD in Art) by Cordula Daus. Within the context
of the thesis defense the research will be presented in a format suitable for the work and in three modalities: A novel (publicly
available in a reading room for three days), a reading with audiographic accompaniment, and a conversation. Furthermore, the
thesis will be explained and defended in the form of a lecture (45 minutes) in front of the examination committee by the candidate
herself.
Supervisor: Ferdinand Schmatz
19-21
June 2022
10:00 am–5:00
pmZentrum Fokus Forschung
Rustenschacherallee 2-4
1020 Vienna
Reading room
During
three days the yet unpublished novel SEHR can be read in a reading room open to the public. The author will be present.
Sunday, 19 June
6:00 pm-7:00 pmZentrum Fokus Forschung
Rustenschacherallee
2-4
1020 Vienna
SEHR (novel)
Reading
with Cordula Daus, Verena Faißt, Barbara Graf,
Micha Payer, Barbis Ruder, Charlotta Ruth
«Being the history of KAY and how she set out to discover the intensitas
of love, to probe its nature and learn its rites and customs. Recounting the fullness of her adventures, how our heroine put
herself in the service of freedom, took her pleasure with the masculine sex, and was kiddie-napped in the process. Relating
a skirmish in utero near Berlin, in which KAY was most disastrously defeated. How our heroine was forced to taste bitter tears,
how she nearly perished, and other trials and tribulations besetting her. What can be done to survive as a woman in the era
of the middle ages, which stretch from the 40th year until the present day. Narrated by the heroine herself and very entertaining
to read.»
in German
Monday, 20 June
6:00 pm-7:00 pmOnline
On Higher Love
Conversation
Cordula Daus and [M] Dudeck present an episode from the novel
SEHR and perform an exegesis of a marriage scene. Together with Sebastian Bark they speak about degrees of loving, about semifictional
writing and performative strategies in art and life.
in English
To receive a Zoom-link, please
register via
zff@uni-ak.ac.at until June, 20 at 12:00.
Tuesday,
21 June
6:00 pm-6:45 pmZentrum Fokus Forschung
Rustenschacherallee 2-4
1020 Vienna
Public Defensio
Candidate: Cordula Daus
Committee of Examiners: Prof. Ferdinand Schmatz, Prof. Monika Rinck,
Prof. Nina Lykke (online)
«Kay, or a Case for Intensity» is artistic research that explores the phenomenon
of intensity through a literary character. Kay — a middle aged, white woman from the European middle classes — becomes a case
and model for experimenting with language and feelings, with heterosexual relations and their cultural codifications. The
project focuses on the states of ‘fucking‘, ‘loving‘, and ‘grieving‘ as phenomenological intensity scales.
in English
To attend the public defense, please contact
zff@uni-ak.ac.at.
Let us know if you’d like to join us on site or via Zoom.
