© Laura Brechmann
Zentrum Fokus ForschungRustenschacherallee 2-41020 Vienna
— See also Fairground Ride Dizziness-Choir.
— See also Fairground Ride Dizziness-Choir: Language Arts Texts.
Gravity lends weight to all objects and causes the tides, but it can also be used to connote seriousness and depth, or a metaphorical weight or tide. If gravity is another word for seriousness, lightness connotes levity, humour and flippancy.
More than courage, what standing the dizziness of freedom requires is precision.
A performance between agitated thinking, writing and speaking in an unstable equilibrium.
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.
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.
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.
