Agents of Confusion!
An art and science symposium on dizziness as a creative resource
10.02.2017 10:00-19:00
In cooperation with the Institute of Differential Psychology, University of Graz and the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Dizziness – A Resource (Austrian Science Fund – PEEK). Supported by the Styrian universities’ David Herzog Fund.
In English
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
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