1998 © Anderwald + Grond
Ruth Anderwald
Leonhard Grond
Introduction
For our project ‘Dizziness–A Resource’, we study dizziness, comprising its complementary areas of experience and reflection on it. Based on artistic, art-historical, philosophical and natural scientific sources, we address questions with respect to today's conditio humana. Read More.
2012 © Anderwald + Grond
Ruth Anderwald
Karoline Feyertag
Leonhard Grond
Mode d’emploi
Starting with the attempt to call the phenomenon of dizziness by its proper name, this book brings together diverse voices considering the potential of this in-between state from multiple perspectives and in view of different disciplines. Read More.
2017 © U-jazdowski Castle
Anna Kim
Collective Modes of Destruction
Writer Anna Kim's lecture retraces the life of photographer Edith Tudor-Hart (née Edith Suschitzky 1908, in Vienna, died 1973 in Brighton), who worked as a Soviet agent and photographed workers and street children from Vienna and London to give a face to poverty and social disadvantage. Read More.
2008 © Mats Halldin
Hippocampus
1564 the famous Italian anatomist and surgeon Julius Caesar Aranzi discovered a small structure when dissecting a human brain. He named it hippocampus, because its form reminded him of that of a sea horse. Read More.
2013 © Anderwald + Grond
A Short Note on Kierkegaard and Dizziness
Anxiety is altogether different from fear and similar concepts that refer to something definite, whereas anxiety is freedom’s actuality as the possibility of possibility. Anxiety may be compared with dizziness. Read More.
2018 © Anderwald + Grond
History in Between
The project for Haus der Geschichte Österreich (House of Austrian History) encompasses a photo series and a series of videos. Following the construction process for the new museums’ space in the historical backdrop of Neue Burg, the former Emperor’s quarters. Read More.
2016 © Anderwald + Grond
Dizziness Is My Name
Sound Installation
I’ve heard surviving pilots tell, that free fall triggers a feeling of confusion between the self and the aircraft. While falling, people may sense themselves as being things, while things may sense that they are people. Read More.
2017 © Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art
Balancing Togetherness
Recordings
Recordings from the conference 'Balancing Togetherness' Read More.
1904 © Cajal Institute
Jarosław Lubiak
Semantics of Dizziness
Dizziness is the name of what disrupts communication, understanding, comprehension. It suspends beyond all certainty. Hence dizziness is not a notion as it gets in the way of comprehending. Read More.
2017 © Laura Brechmann
Laura Brechmann
Dizziness as a
Choreographic Element
For my graduation work at Ruhr-University Bochum I try to visualize how an invisible, chaotic and disturbing phenomenon like dizziness may become visible for an audience. Read More.
2018 © Simon Brugner
Simon Brugner
The Arsenic Eaters
The book 'The Arsenic Eaters' investigates the widespread historical belief that the consumption of arsenic, one of the most potent mineral poisons, is beneficial to one’s health. Accordingly, many poison eaters were found among rural population in the eastern parts of the Alps Read More.
2017 © Forum 20:17
Ruth Anderwald
Der Taumel –
eine Ressource?
Lecture by Ruth Anderwald at ‘Meran 20:17, Zukunftslabor der Jugendarbeit’ Read More.
2017 © Bartosz Górka, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art
Utrata równowagi
Exhibition Views
Exhibition views from Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw. Read More.
2015 © Anderwald + Grond
Dizziness—A Resource:
Dizziness and the Compossible Space
in Research-Creation
‘Dizziness’ implies notions of physical and emotional disequilibrium, staggering, confusion, uncertainty, and turmoil. This article discusses dizziness as a possible resource for creativity including the concept of the ‘compossible space’. Read More.
Haunted Swing Illusion, 1894
Rebekka Ladewig
Spatial Confusion.
Episodes from the
Experimental History of Vertigo
Keeping our bodily balance is a continuous performance, including the effort to keep the erect posture against gravity. However, since this performance remains strictly subliminal we become aware of the state of equilibrium only in the event of disruption: in the very moment we loose our balance, stumble and fall, or more generally, when the relation between the body and the surrounding world is irritated, disturbed, or interrupted as it is characteristic in the state of vertigo. Read More.
2017 © Anderwald + Grond
Gerald Koller
Highmat
Based on the assumption that there is a human tendency toward seeking ecstatic feelings and risk, resulting in dangerous outcomes and potentially addiction, Gerald Koller trains individuals in local communities, citizen organizations (COs), and regional government programs to develop responsible behavior in risky settings. Read More.
2012 © Anderwald + Grond
Creating Art: An Experience Sampling Study in the Domain of Moving Image Art
This study investigated work-related behaviors and feelings in the process of creating art. In a collaborative effort by creativity researchers and artistic researchers, we invited artists to create a short film or video for an international art competition and monitored them for 2 weeks while producing the artwork. Read More.
Vagabondage Nocturne, 2001-2008 © Anderwald + Grond
Scott Evans
Staggering Through Tragedy
If one notes the amount of staggering performed or stammered by characters in Waiting for Godot, it can be quite surprising. In fact, few plays contain characters that spend as much time stumbling or tottering about the stage. It is almost as if they are sailors in the midst of a violent squall, but this is not the case. Read More.
2017 © Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Dizziness. Navigating the Unknown
Exhibition Views
Exhibition views from Kunsthaus Graz Read More.
unknown photographer
Karoline Feyertag
Queering Dizziness
There is a lot of “queering something” these days, although Queer Theory is certainly not yet part of the major scientific or philosophical discourse. I will argue that dizziness is not just another concept, which needs queering, but that dizziness is fundamentally linked to queerness. Read More.