© Helmut Prochart
Oliver Hangl feat. Barbis Ruder
Photo documentation by Helmut Prochart
U-Jazdowski Castle: Octber 5, 2017
Oliver Hangl feat. Edyta Jarzab
© Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art
How did we succeed to make dizziness a sort of commonplace? After several cross-disciplinary gatherings in the course of the research project ‘Dizziness–A Resource’, it became clear that the introduction of the concept of dizziness into divergent research fields created a compossible space, formed by our common interest in the experience of and reflection on dizziness.
It is only when we are blind that experience is possible, Müller says, or in other words, when we take the hand off the banister, as Hannah Arendt has claimed for thinking. In that sense there is no writing that does not involve the affirmation of a certain headlessness, of proflection or precipitancy.
Presentation of the artistic research COMP(H)OST initiated by Marianna Vecellio, curator, with contributions by Leonardo Caffo. Moderation: Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond (HASENHERZ sessions)
Five arts-based research projcets taking place at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna will be presented and discussed. Kerstin Mey from University of Westminster and member of the Austria Science Board will give the keynote at the end of the day.
For living beings, dizziness indicates a situation in which the possibilities of reality can no longer be grasped in the habitual manner of prediction because of a disruption, lack, or overload of input. But this situation offers the potential for change and transformation.
Curator Marianna Vecellio gives insights to her transdisciplinary curatorial practice and interspecies artistic research focused on compost. Alongside the theorical practice she will describe COMP(H)OST, a transdisciplinary project in dialogue with speculative thought and the human and social sciences.
