Agents of Confusion!

The one-day symposium titled Agents of Confusion! brings together artistic and cross-disciplinary research on dizziness, with speakers from the fields of philosophy, visual arts, creativity research and cultural studies in the form of screenings, artists’ talks, lectures and discussions.

The process of slipping into dizzying freefall, of sliding into uncertainty, becoming stuck, losing one’s way, giving up are as much actions as occurrences, both active and passive. Dizziness is a midway state at the point where everything and nothing seems possible, where certainty and uncertainty are in superposition, marked by an increasing loss of control. What potential for action is there here, in a system that is out of kilter? What does taking a step here mean? Or formulating a thought, daring to have an idea?

Participants

Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond, artists, curators, artistic researchers, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna

Mathias Benedek, Institute for Psychology, University of Graz

Katrin Bucher Trantow, Chief Curator, Kunsthaus Graz

Davide Deriu, Reader, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster

Sergio Edelsztein, Director of CCA, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

Karoline Feyertag, Philosopher and Essayist, Vienna, Klagenfurt

Ruti Gadish, Visual Artist, Tel Aviv, Paris

Oliver Hangl, Performance Artist, Vienna

Gerald Koller, Risk and Inebriation Pedagogue, risflecting.at

Rebekka Ladewig, Chair of Theory of Media Worlds, Bauhaus University Weimar

Viktor Landström + Sebastian Wahlforss, Visual Artists, Malmø

Matti Mintz, Professor of Psychobiology, Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University

Vivian Ostrovsky, Visual Artist, Tel Aviv, Paris, Miami

Oliver Ressler, Artistic Researcher and Visual Artist, Vienna

Ben Russell, Media Artist and Curator, Paris, Chicago

Franz Schautzer, Head of Vertigo Ambulance, Department of Neurology and Psychosomatic Medicine, Landeskrankenhaus Villach

Ariel Schlesinger, Visual Artist, Tel Aviv, Mexico City, Berlin

Viktoria Schmid, Visual Artist, Vienna

Michaela Schwentner, Visual Artist, Vienna

Esther Stocker, Visual Artist, Vienna

Catherine Yass, Visual Artist, London

> Download the detailed conference program as pdf here.