«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During three days the yet unpublished novel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.
