Photo credits: Simos Batzakis
Be that as it may, the objective is to expose oneself to the discomfort of momentarily losing one’s bearings and hence oneself.
How do we want to live?
While recognising the important role that words and theories play in such a philosophical life, this lecture by Richard Shusterman explores experiments in practising philosophy through speechless performance art with L’homme en Or (aka the Man in Gold), who embodies the philosopher without words.
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.
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.
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.
