© Anderwald + Grond
– Bernoulligymnasium, Vienna. November 12, 2015
– Akademisches Gymnasium, Graz. February 2, 2016
Every day I do things that I normally do. Every second day I do things that I do not normally do. Then there are these periods in life where I sink into another state of being, a place where well-trodden ground can suddenly trigger incomprehensible responses.
So the bright colors and the multifariousness of the Prater attractions were simply there to be used as a physical means to make something that always seemed new available to the visitors using them – human beings, children, and adults alike – something that always seemed new to them as they clambered down from them or came out of them, even if they were just the same old rides.
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)
Over the last years both the writing and work Moshe Feldenkrais and Richard Shusterman's notion of somaesthetics have come into focus, and we are looking forward to present our artistic research on dizziness, and exchange with experts in the field at the conference "The Promise of Pragmatist Aesthetics" in Budapest.
The workshop will shed new light on disorientation and on how film artists throughout history use (optical) disorientation and confusion as a paradigm in their work. What can be gained by losing one’s grip, by simply letting go? What pictures arise with dizziness?
The photo installation “Horizon in Motion” by Anderwald + Grond on the glass façade of the CCA, Congress Centre Alpbach plays with the figur of Atlas.