Photo credits: Simos Batzakis
'In 50 years people will whistle my tunes in the streets', composer and artist Arnold Schönberg famously stated at the beginning of the 20th century.
I think it is this cognitive override by physical intelligence, or physical knowing and thinking… I am interested in that, because there I encounter my vertigo as well.
If we look at the history of analogue cinema, of cinema projected from film, perhaps we can take the question of vertigo as a red thread.
We differentiated the word sense into three transversal fields to define dizziness: sensory input (stands for the corporeal aspect of dizziness), emotion (the emotional spectrum of dizziness), and meaning. Along these three transversal fields of sense, we will discuss the phenomenon and concept of dizziness, bringing together different disciplinary viewpoints and connections to verticality.
In the context of our symposium, which focuses on dance, choreography, and performance, we also want to examine the implications of the concept of resonance for (physical) movement – and to what extent these resonances in movement can be linked to musical resonances.
How can we navigate together through states of destabilising dizziness? Can the loss of orientation provide creative momentum?
