Somaesthetics of Atmosphere

Atmosphere is a topic that commands increasing attention not only with respect to climate change but also in the humanities, particularly in philosophy, design, and the arts. Besides its climatological meaning, atmosphere indicates the pervading tone, mood, or ambience of a place, situation, or work of art

Warm Up mit Anderwald+Grond ­— Übungen im Zusammenkommen

Our sense of balance provides not only physical, but also emotional balance and orientation.

Salon: Künstlerische Forschung II

How do the arts research? What knowledge is produced? What social challenges are explored? What possible society is imagined?

Jack Halberstam – Unworlding: Trans*Architectures

Today, I am going to lay out some ideas that build on many different aesthetic performances and practices involving trans bodies and that search for and produce new vocabularies for discussing transness and new deployments of transness for the project of dismantling world and worldedness as concepts that hold current political realities in place.

Understanding Practice – Dominique Savitri Bonarjee with Jack Halberstam

Every Body is Exhausted

Understanding Practice – Richard Shusterman

My talk explains how performance work inhabits a liminal space that blurs the boundaries between art and philosophy, art and life, self and other, intelligence and madness.

Come Together – On Certain Groundlessness

Your Own Spaces: Multiperspectivity and Spatial Practices in Audio/Visual Forms of Knowledge Production

Filmmaking has developed epistemological practices of its own, which do not align seamlessly with current notions of artistic research.

Understanding Practice – Amanda Beech

The question of art’s ability to speak to that which is unknowable, unspeakable and alien has been a long tradition held in Romanticism and Realism, the former being associated with the subjective physiologies of the individual and the latter being associated with more objective and scientific aims.

REFLE-X-PÉRIMENTAL #8: EROS/THANATOS

This program examines the glances, gestures, affects and fluids that circulate between filming and filmed bodies, celluloid and screen, fantasy and pleasure.

Assistants, Avatars, Atmospheres: Perspectives on Animism in Media Studies and Media Art

More than ever before, our world appears to us as an animistic world, as a reality in which basically everything – things, plants, machines – can be experienced as animate in some form or another and, accordingly, as alive.

Final Presentation: Action for Sustainable Future hub

Closing event of the ASF hub, including presentations of all projects and an artwork of the accompanying artistic research.

Understanding Practice – Astrid S. Klein

Opposed to the violence of the Plantationocene, the Kola embodies constructive forms of activity and communication and enables the emergence of respectful, equal relationships.

On Certain Groundlessness @ ÆSR Lab Kick-Off

Ladislav Sutnar Prize 2023

The prestigious award goes to Czech sculptor and artist Magdalena Jetelová, the Austrian University of Applied Arts Vienna and the American non-profit organisation Printed Matter, Inc.

Radically Involved @ Research Symposium “Not Quite King, Not Quite Fish”

Reflecting on Togetherness from the Perspectives of Dizziness and Queerness.

Mis/Guided Tour through the Neighbourhood @ CONVOCATION II

We call for a live “coming together” of artistic researchers whose practices engage with the materiality and mediality of language: from the wordless corporeality of body language to the virtuality of digital text, from the voicing of spoken utterance to the textility of words on a page.

Epistemic Dizziness

In an era fraught with dizzying socio-political events and burgeoning ecological catastrophes, this workshop for a special issue will delve into the concept of epistemic dizziness as a disordered state of whirling vertigo, applying it to the contemporary state of Science & Technologies Studies.

Dizziness @ Institute for Medical & Health Humanities and Artistic Research

The Institute for Medical & Health Humanities and Artistic Research organizes events online and at different locations for the exchange about current projects and initiatives. It wants to contribute to the further development of the discourses in the field of the Medical & Health Humanities, but focus in particular on the manifold connections between the Medical & Health Humanities and artistic research.

Exhibition: Threads of Life

Textiles in Medicine and the Arts: About the multifaceted relationship between textiles, medicine and the arts. Presentation of historical and artistic positions that enter into a dialogue and generate productive tensions.

Understanding Practice – Yael Eylat van Essen with Katja Schechtner

Museums have undergone significant changes in the last decades as many have shifted their focus from institutions representing the past to functioning as platforms for transformation and as sites for civic engagement.

On Balance: Architecture and Vertigo

Book Presentation and Discussion with Davide Deriu & Martin Haller.

Collaborative World Building

Collaborative and socially engaged practices are central to contemporary artists. Understanding their work not just as discrete practices of visual expression, but as a form of world building, artists engage with culture writ large, within places, circumstances, and communities they live in.

HASENHERZ with Sebastian Cichocki

The blurring of art’s boundaries enables it to cross-pollinate and conquer new territories.

Dizziness and Climate Action @ Uncommon Senses IV

The senses work together in multifaceted and even dissonant ways. However, recognition of this multiplicity has been stymied by the emphasis on the “pre-reflective unity” of the senses within the phenomenology of perception and the focus on harmonious integration within cognitive neuroscience.

On Dizziness: Performative Lecture

For living beings, dizziness indicates a situation in which the possibilities of reality can no longer be grasped in the habitual manner of prediction because of a disruption, lack, or overload of input. But this situation offers the potential for change and transformation.

Dizziness @ 13th SAR Conference 2022

Dizziness, Anxiety, and Climate Action. Reflecting the Possibilities of Artistic Research from the Viewpoint of the Compossible Space.

The Promise Of Pragmatist Aesthetics

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.

Book Presentation at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Presentation and discussion with the editors of the book 'Diziness–A Resource,' Ruth Anderwald, Karoline Feyertag and Leonhard Grond and their guests: Sarah Kolb, Katrin Bucher Trantow.

Addressing Dizziness – Navigating Possibilities in Collectives

This working symposium aims to discuss ways of localizing, recognizing, approaching, and countering dizziness on different scales and disciplines – from the somatic to the built environment to interspecies and post-colonial contexts. 

Understanding Practice – Efva Lilja

Choreography is a coward’s excuse for control. Choreography is a futile attempt at seizing power.

Understanding – Art & Research

Research is about the transformation of our understanding.

HOUSE OF LOSING CONTROL

For the duration of one week, a condemned building complex in the 20th district will mutate into an experimental space for art and a newly defined cultural meeting place. 

LOSING CONTROL Line-Up

At the LOSING CONTROL Line-Up, discursive formats, film screenings and performances will line up in rapid succession for one afternoon. Top-class guests from art and science invite the audience to engage with the experienced or threatened loss of control.

HASENHERZ with Sergio Edelsztein

How does an artist live and work in isolation? How can he/she follow up on exhibition commitments? What kind of artistic strategies should be developed in order to maintain a presence and contact with the public in this situation? What would then be the role of the curator, and of the institution in general, in extreme situations where mobility is imperiled? 

Falling Away - Symposium

A one-day symposium held together with the exhibition of Catherine Yass’s film works in Ambika P3, London.

Angewandte @ Biennale Sessions — La Biennale di Venezia

Artistic Research and Architecture: On the Possibilities and Responsibilities of Applied Understanding through Art and Research

Kick-Off Meeting with Mária Auxiliadora Gálvez

"Everything is in relation to everything" - Glimpses on a meeting

HASENHERZ Compost: a model for a fluid/co-evolutive and co-generative curatorial practice

Curator Marianna Vecellio gives insights to her transdisciplinary curatorial practice and interspecies artistic research focused on compost. Alongside the theorical practice she will describe COMP(H)OST, a transdisciplinary project in dialogue with speculative thought and the human and social sciences.

Dance Reading Club: When we walk on all fours in ruins

How do we want to live?

Fairground Ride Dizziness-Choir

A performance between agitated thinking, writing and speaking in an unstable equilibrium.

HASENHERZ session

LEISE HEKTISCHE DELIKTE mit Monika Rinck

European Culture of Resistance against Fascisms

The Europe we inhabit today developed as a project in resistance to its past fascisms. But are fascisms only found in the past? This day-long workshop and exchange meeting explores resistance against fascisms as a performative, artistic, cultural, digital and educational instrument of realizing (European) community. 

Dizziness and Verticality

We differentiated the word sense into three transversal fields to define dizziness: sensory input (stands for the corporeal aspect of dizziness), emotion (the emotional spectrum of dizziness), and meaning. Along these three transversal fields of sense, we will discuss the phenomenon and concept of dizziness, bringing together different disciplinary viewpoints and connections to verticality.

Dizziness–A Resource?

How can we navigate together through states of destabilising dizziness? Can the loss of orientation provide creative momentum?

CCA Tel Aviv Book Launch: Dizziness – A Resource

This book launch will feature Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond, who will introduce the book and their eponymous artistic research project, and Sergio Edelsztein, collaborator of the artistic research 'Dizziness – A Resource'. In 2016 he co-hosted a three-day event at the CCA, where Maya M. Shmailov participated with a lecture.

Between Images

The symposium 'Between Images' explores contemporary artistic perspectives on the period after World War II. The invited artists of the symposium will use various media to approach the question of how it was possible to live together after the disillusionment of the lost war.

Nothing Personal

'Nothing Personal' is a video that present two simultaneous views: one turning into the artist’s studio, and the other looking out from the studio to the corridor and entrance hall leading into it. The video opens with the artist lying on a bed in the middle of the studio, weakly calling the emergency medical service.

The Second Medicine & Humanities Interdisciplinary Colloquium

Medicine and Humanities share a common research subject – humans. The basic and fundamental difference is the methodologies and research strategies applied, which could lead to similar or opposing conclusions.

House of Austrian History

Ruth Anderwald and Leonhard Grond have accompanied the construction site of the museum for over a year and a half and have developed a photo and video series that addressed the transformation process.

Things you didn’t know about balance

This workshop will elucidate how dizziness breaks up the given, be it habits, beliefs, preconceptions or patterns, creating space and dynamics between established categories and perceived oppositions. In this sense dizziness provides power and dynamics to restructure, to rethink, to redesign the given.

Balancing Togetherness

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.

Guerillawalks Graz – Warsaw

An alternative city walk - unexpected situations expected!

Artpress Philosophie de François Jullien

Présentation du numéro 46 de Artpress2 'Philosophie de François Jullien. Des concepts proposés à l'art'

Future Laboratory of Youth Work

The FORUM 20:17 wants to bring up the social and cultural change of the global societies and the associated need for orientation of young people in the new form of a future laboratory as well as the associated need for shaping open and associative youth work.

Utrata równowagi Film Programme

Extending to 'Utrata równowagi' at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond curated with Michał Matuszewski six programmes of Austrian and international films.

Utrata równowagi

'Utrata równowagi' at Ujazdowski Castle, Centre for Contemporary Art is the follow-up exhibition of 'Dizziness. Navigating the Unknown' at Kunsthaus Graz and allows visitors to immerse themselves in the experience and reflections on dizziness.

Prospective Perspectives

The series focuses, in feature films and short films or with video and performance, on future concepts beyond apocalyptic catastrophes or technical utopias that develop positive action patterns of social and economic coexistence.

HASENHERZ

Mark Toscano presents and discusses Gunvar Nelson's film 'Frame Line'.

Im Taumel

Extending to 'Dizziness. Navigating the Unknown' at Kunsthaus Graz, the 'Diagonale' festival shows a programme of Austrian and international short films.

Taumel/Vertigo

Confronting the cinematic image is always associated with a certain loss of control. The avantgarde could not have made this relation more explicit. What makes our heads spin and what state of mind is vertigo?

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.

Dizziness — Navigating the Unknown

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

Initiation and Gangster Backstage

Having grown up in Lesotho (his mother is German, his father South African), Teboho Edkins' films are shaped by a search for borders: between belonging and intrusion, between documenting and fictional storytelling, between film and video art.

The Power and Myth of Creativity

What is creativity? Which myths are associated with it? This workshop seeks to to shed light on the topic from the viewpoints of art, philosophy and neuroscience.

Dizziness Is My Name

“As agents of confusion you precede the agents of change”, claims the hermaphrodite being ‘Dizziness’ in Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond’s film.

Horizon in Motion

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.

DizzyMess

"DizzyMess" is a 4-channel immersive soundscape and video installation which will be shown at the upcoming FUSO video-art festival in Lisbon.

Navigating the Unknown – Fears and Pleasures of Dizziness

A three-day programme with Austrian, Swiss, British, American, Danish, German, and Israeli artists and scientists at the CCA – Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv. 'Dizziness' is a condition of the body and/or the mind indicating a deviation from what has been so far conceived as normal or usual. As a condition, 'Dizziness' forces a re-rearrangement of the current navigational system. But how does one navigate the unknown?

Arts-based Research Day 2016

Five arts-based research projcets taking place at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna will be presented and discussed. Kerstin Mey from University of Westminster and member of the Austria Science Board will give the keynote at the end of the day.

Young Science

Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond take Dizziness–A Resource to the classroom.

Vertigo in the City

Vertigo in the City brings together an eclectic mix of scholars, clinicians, practitioners and artists to share perspectives on vertigo. The multidisciplinary conversations explore how sensations of dizziness and disorientation are diagnosed, analysed, evoked, induced, critiqued and represented, with a particular focus on the built environment.

Taumel – Navigating in the Unknown

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.

Taumel – On the Borders of the Unknown

The end of the extent of our knowledge defines the borders of our world as we know it. Since the concept of the world as a plate, right up to the discovery of the existence of dark matter, this has not changed.

Taumel – The Pleasures and the Fears of Being Dizzy

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?

What Would Seeing Be Without Us?

Film screening at mumok cinema, Vienna (AT): Together with Gareth Evans, film curator at Whitechapel Gallery, London, the artist duo Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond took a look at both visual and narrative perspectives.

Instruction for Use

The contribution of Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond to the cross-genre project “Instruction for Use” shows first visual findings of their occupation with dizziness/Taumel.