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June 27, 2016

2016 © Anderwald + Grond

Creative Dizziness in Artists’ Working Process

Mathias Benedek

Mathias Benedek, Creative Dizziness in Artists’ Working Process, lecture at Navigating the Unknown – Fears and Pleasures of Dizziness.

‍CCA, Center for Contemporary Art - Tel Aviv.
‍Wednesday, 23 March, 2016.

Mathias Benedek, Emanuel Jauk and Anderwald + Grond have launched a survey to detect the possible interconnectedness of the feeling of dizziness and creative behavior in artists' working process.

Footnotes

– See also Navigating the Unknown – Fears and Pleasures of Dizziness.
‍– See also Interim Report on ‘Living in a Dizzying World’.
‍– See also Winner of the Art Competition Living in a Dizzying World.

Literature

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Essay
Rebekka Ladewig

Spatial Confusion. Episodes from the Experimental History of Vertigo

Keeping our bodily balance is a continuous performance, including the effort to keep the erect posture against gravity. However, since this performance remains strictly subliminal we become aware of the state of equilibrium only in the event of disruption: in the very moment we loose our balance, stumble and fall, or more generally, when the relation between the body and the surrounding world is irritated, disturbed, or interrupted as it is characteristic in the state of vertigo.

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Limit and Threshold

Both notions seem crucial when thinking of the catalysts for dizziness. Reaching one’s own limit makes one dizzy. Crossing a threshold, which is understood as a symbol for ending something and beginning something new, could begin within dizziness but also end with lucidity.

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Metis

Wherever indeterminacy (apeiras) reigns, wherever there are no limits and no directions, whenever we are trapped, encircled or caught in inextricable bonds, it is, according to Detienne and Vernant, Metis who intervenes, who discovers stratagems, expedients, tricks, ruses, machinations, mechane and techne which allow us to move from the absence of limits to determinacy, from darkness to light. The kinship between Poros and Metis provides an indissoluble link between journey, transition, crossing, resourcefulness, expediency, techne, light and limits (peiras).

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What is creativity? Which myths are associated with it? This workshop seeks to to shed light on the topic from the viewpoints of art, philosophy and neuroscience.

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