Vagabondage Nocturne, 2008 © Anderwald + Grond photo
© Anderwald + Grond
Lecture Performance by Robert Prosser at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Friday, May 22, 2015. German only.
– See also Dizzy on Stage. Trance in Anthroplogy and Practice.
My agents of confusion!
Excerpt of the concert Instruction for Use at Musikfestival Rottweil, Germany. June 18, 2015.
Vertigo is a specific medical term used to describe the sensation of spinning without moving or having one’s surroundings spin about one.
Can dizziness be a resource? What remains after unsettledness and disorientation? And how can we see communities find their balance in uncertain situations? Particularly now, in times of ubiquitous invocations of global crisis, these questions of collective balancing and balancing collectives are more relevant than ever.
A performance between agitated thinking, writing and speaking in an unstable equilibrium.
Can dizziness be a resource? What remains from states of precariousness, uncertainty, disorientation, intoxication or exhilaration? Particularly now, in these times of invocations of global crisis, these questions are more relevant than ever. The exhibition ‘Dizziness. Navigating the Unknown’ locates dizziness in artistic creativity, finding it in situations of unbalance, confusion, disorientation
