Vagabondage Nocturne, 2008 © Anderwald + Grond photo
© Anderwald + Grond
Lecture Performance by Robert Prosser at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
– See also Dizzy on Stage. Trance in Anthroplogy and Practice.
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.
The Greek word peirar means “end, limit” and peras means “end, limit, boundary”. The word a-peiron is the negation of these meanings. In Hesiod and other classical Greek texts peras mainly describes the end of the known world.
Photos of 'Navigating the Unknown – Fears and Pleasures of Dizziness' at CCA-Tel Aviv
Museums have undergone significant changes in the last decades as many have shifted their focus from institutions representing the past to functioning as platforms for transformation and as sites for civic engagement.
Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond take Dizziness–A Resource to the classroom.
The series focuses, in feature films and short films or with video and performance, on future concepts beyond apocalyptic catastrophes or technical utopias that develop positive action patterns of social and economic coexistence.
